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The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, [5] making it one of Scotland's four ancient ...
Northeastern Illinois University: Chicago: 1867 5,756 Master's Northern Illinois University: DeKalb: 1895 15,649 Research University Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Carbondale: 1869 11,107 Research University Part of the Southern Illinois University System: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville: Edwardsville: 1957 12,519 Doctoral ...
The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.
J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Abe Taub, Sylvian Ray, and Donald B. Gillies [5] assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground. After ORDVAC was moved to Aberdeen, it was used remotely by ...
The building was completed in September 2011 and was initially known simply as the Aberdeen University New Library. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] On 21 September 2012, the building's name was changed to honour Duncan Rice, who had been Principal of the university 1990–2006, during the time that the project was conceived and the funds were raised. [ 10 ]
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The Northern Illinois Huskies upset Notre Dame Fighting Irish 16-14 in South Bend to pull off the biggest win in the program's history. The team was 0-14 against top-10 ranked teams prior to ...
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) [1] [2] led to the building of the Institute which opened in 1989.