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  2. University - Wikipedia

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    The original Latin word universitas refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc". [13] As urban town life and medieval guilds developed, specialized associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights (these rights were usually guaranteed by charters issued by princes, prelates, or their towns) became ...

  3. Branches of physics - Wikipedia

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    environmental physics, the branch of physics concerned with the measurement and analysis of interactions between organisms and their environment; engineering physics, the combined discipline of physics and engineering; geophysics, the sciences of physical relations on our planet; mathematical physics, mathematics pertaining to physical problems

  4. List of presidents of Clemson University - Wikipedia

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    Clemson University, founded in 1889, is a public research university located in Clemson, South Carolina. The university is led by a president , who is selected by the board of trustees . The president acts as the school's chief executive officer , reporting to the board, and is tasked with providing leadership to the faculty and students, and ...

  5. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Shaw University, founded December 1, 1865, was the second HBCU to be established in the South. The year 1865 also saw the foundation of Storer College (1865–1955) in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. [2]

  6. 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses

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    Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro criticized colleges and universities that did not do enough to protect its students, which could lead to antisemitic incidents. [316] Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called the protests "a dangerous situation" and said, "there's also antisemitism, which is completely unacceptable". [ 126 ]

  7. Natural philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelian "physics" is different from what we mean today by this word, not only to the extent that it belongs to antiquity whereas the modern physical sciences belong to modernity, rather above all it is different by virtue of the fact that Aristotle's "physics" is philosophy, whereas modern physics is a positive science that presupposes a ...

  8. Thomas Green Clemson - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Green Clemson (July 1, 1807 – April 6, 1888) was an American politician and statesman, serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium, and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential nineteenth-century ...

  9. Gordon Moore - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.