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The word carrel may also refer to a small, isolated "study room" in public libraries and on university campuses; [1] the room may have a lockable door, to which the user is granted the key on request. Carrels typically contain a desk (not necessarily one described as above), shelving and a lamp. [1]
The French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems (French: Fondation française pour l'étude des problèmes humains), often referred to as the Alexis Carrel Foundation or the Carrel Foundation, was a eugenics organization created by Nobel laureate in Medicine Alexis Carrel under the Vichy regime in World War II France.
Carrel was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1909 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1914. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Carrel was a member of learned societies in the U.S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy, and Greece, and was elected twice, in 1924 and 1927, as an honorary ...
Society for Marine Mammalogy; Society for Neuroscience; Society for Sedimentary Geology; Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections; Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality; Society of Catholic Scientists; Society of Chemical Industry (America Section) Society of Cosmetic Chemists; Society of General Physiologists
Ecological Society of America 1915: Washington, D.C. Geological Society of America 1888: Boulder: Georgia Political Science Association 1968: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 1995: Institute of Real Estate Management Chicago: International Association for Cryptologic Research 1982: Karl Jaspers Society of North ...
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1 C, 50 P) Native plant societies based in the United States (14 P) Nonprofit hobbyist organizations based in the United States (16 P)
The building was designed to work in units of three, with two stacks floors holding similar subjects and a carrel floor to accommodate departments and librarians related to those materials. The plan never fully came to fruition, and carrels are used by graduate students and professors as quiet study spaces.
The American Studies Association was founded for purposes of the promotion of the study of American culture through the encouragement of research, teaching, publication, the strengthening of relations among persons and institutions in this country and abroad devoted to such studies, and the broadening of knowledge among the general public about American culture in all its diversity and complexity.