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Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [4]
The North Carolina State University Centennial Biomedical Campus is located 2.5 mi (4.0 km) west of the NCSU Memorial Tower. North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine , NC State's professional college and North Carolina's only veterinary medicine program, serves as the anchor of the Biomedical Campus.
The student body consists of 17,981 undergraduate students and 10,935 graduate and professional students (as of Fall 2009). [107] Racial and ethnic minorities comprise 30.8% of UNC-Chapel Hill's undergraduate population as of 2010 [ 108 ] and applications from international students more than doubled in five years from 702 in 2004 to 1,629 in ...
The North Carolina State University Memorial Belltower [3] (officially the Memorial Tower, informally known as the Belltower [3]) is a 115-foot-tall (35 m) free-standing bell tower on the Main Campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina [4] Conceived as a war memorial to honor university alumni killed in World War I and the university's overall participation in the ...
The NC State Wolfpack is the nickname of the athletic teams representing North Carolina State University. The Wolfpack competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I ( Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football ) as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for all sports since the 1953–54 season.
The final Oregon field test had occurred in 2001. As of May 2013, the GMO seed source was unknown. Volunteer wheat from a former test field two miles away was tested and was not found to be glyphosate-tolerant. Monsanto faced penalties up to $1 million over potential violations of the Plant Protection Act. The discovery threatened world-leading ...
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; [4] [5] February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), earning recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched-earth policies, which he ...
India is also planning to build fast breeder reactors using the thorium – Uranium-233 fuel cycle. The FBTR (Fast Breeder Test Reactor) in operation at Kalpakkam (India) uses Plutonium as a fuel and liquid sodium as a coolant. China, which has control of the Cerro Impacto deposit, has a reactor and hopes to replace coal energy with nuclear ...