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Almost all Bronx Science graduates continue on to four-year colleges, and it is a "feeder school", with many graduates going on to Ivy League schools and other institutions of higher learning each year. [33] Bronx Science has counted 132 finalists in the Regeneron (formerly Intel) Science Talent Search, the largest number of any high school. [34]
Bronx High School of Science was founded in 1938 as a specialized science and math high school for boys, by resolution of the Board of Education of the City of New York, with Morris Meister as the first principal of the school. They were given use of an antiquated Gothic-gargoyled edifice located at Creston Avenue and 184th Street.
The Bronx High School of Science counts nine Nobel Prize recipients as graduates. Seven of these Nobel laureates received their prize in the field of physics. Robert J. Lefkowitz was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Leon N. Cooper (1947), co–developer of BCS theory; namesake of Cooper pairs [10] [91]
Phys.org is an online science, research and technology news aggregator which re-publishes press releases and stories from news agencies (a business model known as churnalism). [1] [2] [3] As of 2014, Phys.org was posting an average of 98 items per day. [4] It is part of the Science X network of websites, headquartered on the Isle of Man.
The campus was named after Evander Childs, principal of Public School 10 in the Bronx who died at his work desk on April 11, 1912. [1]In 1938, James Michael Newell, working under the Public Works of Art Project and the Federal Art Project, painted eight murals titled The History of Western Civilization at the school.
Manhattan University, Riverdale, Bronx; Marymount Manhattan College; Mercy University - main campus in Westchester County, but branch campus located at Herald Square; Metropolitan College of New York; Monroe University, Bronx; New York Institute of Technology. New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design [3]
Dr. Alexander Taffel (born in Odessa, Russia; died January 19, 1997, Riverdale, Bronx) [1] was the second principal of the Bronx High School of Science, a long-time physics teacher and author of three textbooks in Physics. He is a recipient of the NBC Award for Public Service.
Morris Meister (1895 - 1975) was a science educator and administrator who was the founder and first principal of the Bronx High School of Science as well as the first president of Bronx Community College. [3] [4] He is noteworthy for his support and application of laboratory-based methods in science education as well as interdisciplinary study.