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William Gordon Bowen (/ ˈ b oʊ ə n / BOH-ən; October 6, 1933 – October 20, 2016) [1] was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006. [2] From 1972 until 1988, he was the president of Princeton University. Bowen founded the digital library, JSTOR.
William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, [5] founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in ...
JSTOR was founded in 1995 under the direction of current ITHAKA president Kevin M. Guthrie. Guthrie also served as the founding president of ITHAKA in 2004. [1] Both organizations were initially funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which at the time was led by William G. Bowen.
16th President of Princeton University; In office 1957–1972: Preceded by: Harold W. Dodds: Succeeded by: William G. Bowen: United States Ambassador to India; In office May 26, 1977 – December 10, 1980
In 1935, the university once again formed appreciable plans for the start of a law school but was unable to secure a faculty. In 1974, then president of Princeton, William G. Bowen, selected a committee to investigate and advise on the achievability of a law school. The committee recommended plans for a law school be deferred after citing high ...
Howard Bowen, 81, American economist, president of Grinnell College and the University of Iowa. [172] Theodore M. Burton, 82, American Mormon Genealogical Department director. [173] Archie Campbell, 86, American Major League baseballer (Cincinnati Reds). [174] Giorgio Cavallon, 85, Italian-born American abstract artist. [175]
A leaked video of UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty defending claim denials after Brian Thompson’s murder has sparked backlash. Critics argue the policy contributes to medical bankruptcies and lives ...
In economics, the Baumol effect, also known as Baumol's cost disease, first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in the 1960s, is the tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth.