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In 1876, eight years after its founding, Cornell University offered its first summer programs in botany, chemistry, drawing, entomology, geology, and zoology. [2]Cornell University Summer Session, historically known as Summer Courses, the Summer Term, or the Summer School, was formally established in 1892, one of the earliest such programs in the United States.
Prior to 1987, when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce approved the two-letter codes for use in government documents, [13] the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) suggested its own set of abbreviations, with some states left unabbreviated. Today, the GPO supports United States Postal Service standard. [14]
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Information about All States from UCB Libraries GovPubs; State Resource Guides, from the Library of Congress; Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (in order of population) Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (alphabetical) State and Territorial Governments on USA.gov; StateMaster – statistical database for U.S. states
Insular Areas of the United States and the 50 states and Washington, D.C.. Guam; Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands; Note: American Samoa (American Samoa Community College) and the Northern Mariana Islands (Northern Marianas College) have one college each.
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, NewFounded in 1946, the school was renamed in 1984 to honor Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C. Johnson & Son, following a landmark $20 million endowment from his family which was the largest gift ever made to a business school at the ...
The School of Criticism and Theory, now at Cornell University, is a summer program (offered in six-week seminars) in social science and literature.It is one of the most influential such programs in the United States to propagate the new dominant stream of "literary-critical-cultural 'theory'."
This is a list of WikiProjects, main articles, outlines, indexes, state websites, government agencies, and Wikipedia portals for the United States of America and its 50 states, 1 federal district, and 5 territories.