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Cecil Howard Green KBE (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist, electrical engineer, and electronics manufacturing executive, who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a cofounder of Texas Instruments.
Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green.. The college consists of a residential community of nearly 100 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars and professors, and non-resident affiliated faculty and academic programming.
Cecil Howard Green, geophysicist; co-founder of Texas Instruments; philanthropist who donated money for the Green College, University of British Columbia Robert Langlands , mathematician specializing in automorphic forms and representation theory , Wolf Prize Laureate
Cecil C. Konijnendijk (born 1970) is a Dutch researcher, educator, advisor, and writer working within the fields of urban forestry and urban greening. He co-directs the Nature Based Solutions Institute [ 1 ] and is an Honorary Professor at the University of British Columbia's Faculty of Forestry.
Along with Cecil Green, he was a co-founder of St. Mark's School of Texas in 1950; their endowment included the donation of a planetarium, observatory, and math-science quadrangle. He was a major donor to many universities and was on the boards of Southern Methodist University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Southwestern ...
2017: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Cecil Green College, University of British Columbia [24] 2017: UBC Teaching Award. ‘Just desserts’, Student Society (Alma Mater Society) 2015: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science [25] 2015: Professional Engineer, Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia [26]
The President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia (UBC) serves as the administrative head of the institution. There have been fifteen people have served as president in the history of the institution, including those that held the position on an interim basis, with Martha C. Piper serving twice as president.
In 1985 Chow participated in fundraising for Canadian Paraplegic Association and performed on the piano at Cecil Green Alumni Association for University of British Columbia. In 1987 he release an album of original musical pieces through Mushroom Studios.