University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2014, the university currently enrolls 16-774 students in 12 separate colleges including a medical school located in Miami's Civic Center neighborhood, a law school on the main campus, and a school focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences on Virginia Key, with
a research facilities at the Richmond Facility in southern Miami Dede County. These colleges offer approximately 115 undergraduate, 104 master's, and 63 doctoral of which 59 are research/scholarship and
four professional areas of study. Over the years, the University's students have represented all 50 states and close to 150 foreign countries. With more than 14,000 full and part time faculty and staff, University of Miami is the sixth largest employer in Miami Dada County.
Research is a component of each academic division, with University of Miami attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a large library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage and music. also University of Miami offers a wide range of student
t activities, including fraternities and sororities, a student newspaper and radio station.University of Miami
intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and its football team has won five national championships since 1983.
The University began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort.These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had been sold in the city.
The University was chartered on April 18, 1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the land boom had collapsed, and hopes for a speedy recovery were dashed by a major hurricane. For the next 15 years the University barely remained solvent.
The construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, giving the University the early nickname of "Cardboard College.
In 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. University of Miami 's plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open.A reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by University of Miami first president Bowman Foster Ashe
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university also has a campus theater, the Jerry Herman Ring Theater,
which is used for student plays and musicals. The John C. Gifford
Arboretum, a campus arboretum and botanical garden, is located on the
northwest corner of the main campus in Coral Gables. The Jorge M. Perez
Architecture Center is the lecture hall and gallery of the School of
Architecture that displays exhibitions focusing on architecture and
design.
The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E.B. Douglas, David Fair child, James H. Gil man, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shuts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C. Penney. In 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest. University of Miami filed for bankruptcy in 1932. In July 1934, the University of Miami was reincorporated
and a Board of Trustees replaced the Board of Regents. By 1940, community leaders were replacing faculty and administration as trustees. The University survived this early turmoil. During Ash's presidency, the University added the School of Law the School of Business Administration the School of Education the Graduate School the Marine Laboratory the School of Engineering and the School of Medicine .
University of Miami 's main campus spans 260 acres in Coral Gables, located immediately south of the city of Miami. Most of the University of Miami's academic programs are located on the main campus in Coral Gables, which houses seven schools and two colleges including the University of Miami School of Law. The campus has over 5,900,000 sq ft of building space valued at over $657 million.
The Coral Gables campus is served by the Miami Metro rail at the University Station.The Metro connects UM to Downtown Miami, Brick ell, Coconut Grove, and other Miami neighborhoods. The UM campus is about a 15-minute train ride from Downtown and Brick ell. The Hurry 'Canes shuttle bus service operates
two routes on campus and weekend routes to various off-campus stores and facilities during the school year; an additional shuttle route provides service to the RS MAS campus on Virginia Key and Visayans Station. Miami also has a Zip car service. There is also a lake named "Lake Osceola" in the center of campus. It holds a large fountain, which serves as a landmark to many university students.
The University of South Florida, also known as University of South Florida is an American metropolitan public research university located in Tampa, Florida, United States University of South Florida also a member institution of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1956, University of South Florida
is the fourth-largest public university in the state of Florida, with a total enrollment of 48,373 as of the 2014 - 2015 academic year. The University of South Florida system comprises three institutions: University of South Florida Tampa, University of South Florida St. Peters burg and University of South Florida
Sarasota Manatee.Each institution is separately accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university is home to 14 colleges, offering more than 80 undergraduate majors and more than 130 graduate, specialist, and doctoral-level degree programs.
University of South Florida is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the top tier of research universities, and is among three other universities in Florida to hold this highest level of
classification. In its 2011 ranking, the Intellectual Property Owners Association placed University of South Florida 10th among all universities worldwide in the number of US patents granted. The university has an
annual budget of $1.5 billion and an annual economic impact of over $3.7 billion. In a ranking compiled by the National Science Foundation, University of South Florida ranks 43rd in the United States for total research spending among st all universities, public and private.
University of South Florida ranks in the top 100 best public schools in the 2014 Best Colleges edition of U.S. News & World Report. University of South Florida was named a national leader in online education
by Guide to Online Schools. US graduate level programs - including Public Health, Library and Information Studies, Education, and Criminology - continue to rank among the nation's 50 best in the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings.
As of Fall 2014, there are more than 1,700 instructional faculty at the University of South Florida Tampa campus. As of Fall 2011, the student to faculty ratio for the University of South Florida Tampa campus was 24- 1 Approximately 86 percent of full-time faculty members hold terminal degrees in their field of expertise.
Additionally, the university has more than 1,200 adjunct professors, 300 post-doctoral scholars, over 2,000 graduate assistants, and 2,800 student assistants.
US faculty continue to be recognized on the global academic stage with over 35 scholars receiving prominent scholarly awards since 2009, including Fulbright, National Science Foundation, ALAS, Guggenheim, and
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. In 2012, a University of South Florida professor was one of four in the nation to receive the prestigious Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year award.
University of South Florida was the first independent state university conceived, planned, and built during the 20th century. Former U.S. Representative Sam Gibbons was instrumental in the school's creation when he was a state representative and is considered by many to be the "Father of University of South Florida Though founded in 1956, the university was not officially named until the following year, and courses did not begin until 1960.
The university was built off Fowler Avenue on the site of Henderson Air Field, a World War II airstrip. Before Henderson Field, the area was part of the 1920s 5000 acre temple orange grove, the largest citrus grove in the world at the time, which gave the nearby City of Temple Terrace its name. In 1957, the Florida
Cabinet approved the name "University of South Florida. At the time, University of South Florida was the southernmost university in the state university system. In 1962, the official University of South Florida mascot was unveiled as the "Golden Brahman. In the late 1980s, the mascot evolved into the "Bulls.
The university grew under the leadership of John Allen, who served as its first president from 1957 until his retirement in 1970. During this time, the university expanded rapidly, due in part to the first master's degree programs commencing in 1964. Allen was known for his opposition to college sports in favor of an
environment more academically centered. Allene's ultimate legacy was to be the first person to build a modern state university from scratch: "As a completely new and separate institution, the University of South Florida became the first new institution of its kind to be conceived, planned and built in the United States in the 20th century.
Today the John and Grace Allen Administration Building, named after the university's founding president and his wife, houses vital Tampa campus departments including Student Affairs, the Admissions Welcome Center, and the Controller's Office.
The first University of South Florida Commencement ceremony was held in 1963 where 325 degrees were conferred. In the 2014-2015 academic year, the University of South Florida Tampa campus awarded more than 11,400 degrees at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. Commencement ceremonies are
held three times a year at the end of the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Spring ceremonies are generally the largest, with five separate ceremonies held each semester.Ceremonies for the University of South Florida Tampa campus are held in the University of South Florida Sun Dome. Additionally, the university live streams each ceremony for out-of-town guests to watch online.
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campus when it opened. In its early years, the University Center held
the first on-campus women's residence hall, a cafeteria, post office,
bookstore, game room, television room, and information desk.
The original University of South Florida student union was built in 1959 and opened in 1960. Originally called the University Center, it was one of the first five buildings that made up the University of South Florida
Classes were held in the basement and first floor of the building until other academic building were completed. The center underwent major renovations from 1988 to 1990. It was renamed the Phyllis P. Marshall Center in 1993, in honor of the woman who served as director of the building from 1976 to 1994.
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh abbreviated as Enid. in post-nominal founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city of Edinburgh, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university.
The University of Edinburgh is ranked 17th in the world by the 2013 14 and 20115 Q S rankings.The Research Excellence Framework, a research ranking used by the UK government to determine future research funding, ranked Edinburgh 4th in the UK for research power, with Computer Science and
ranking 1st in the UK. It is ranked 12th in the world in arts and humanities by the 2014 15 Times Higher Education Ranking.
It is ranked the 15th most employable university in the world by the 2013 Global University Ranking. It is ranked as the 6th best university in Europe by the U.S. News' Best Global Universities Ranking.It is a member of both the Russell Group, and the League of European Research Universities, a consortium of 21 research universities in Europe.
It has the third largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom, after the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.
The university played an important role in leading Edinburgh to its reputation as a chief intellectual during the Age of Enlightenment, and helped give the city the nickname of the Athens of the North. Alumni of the university include some of the major figures of modern history, including physicist James Clerk Maxwell,
naturalist Charles Darwin, philosopher David Hume, mathematician Thomas Bayes, surgeon Joseph Lister, signatories of the American declaration of independence James Wilson, John and Benjamin Rush, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, first president of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, and a host of famous authors such as Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie and Sir Walter Scott. Associated people include 20 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners, 1 Abel Prize winner, 1 Fields Medal winner, 1 Pulitzer
Prize winner, 3 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 2 currently-sitting UK Supreme Court Justices, and several Olympic gold It continues to have links to the British Royal Family, having had the Duke of Edinburgh as its Chancellor from 1953 to 2010 and Princess Anne since 2011.
Edinburgh receives approximately 50,000 applications every year, making it the fourth most popular university in the UK by volume of applicants. Entrance is competitive, with 2012–2013 having an acceptance rate of 11.5% and offer rate of 38.6%.
After St Andrews, it is the most difficult university to gain admission into in Scotland, and 9th overall in the UK
Before the building of Old College to plans by Robert Adam implemented after the Napoleonic Wars by the architect William Henry , the University of Edinburgh did not have a custom-built campus and existed in a of buildings from its establishment until the early 19th century. The university's first custom-built building was the
Old College, now the School of Law, situated on South Bridge. Its first forte in teaching was anatomy and the developing science of surgery, from which it expanded into many other subjects. From the basement of a nearby house ran the anatomy tunnel corridor. It went under what was then North College Street now
Chambers under the university buildings until it reached the university's anatomy lecture , delivering bodies for dissection. It was from this tunnel that the body of William Burke was taken after he had been hanged.
University Sports Union which was founded in 1866.
The medical school is renowned throughout the world. It was widely considered the best medical school in the English-speaking world throughout the 18th century and first half of the 19th century
The first medical school in the United States was founded at the University of Pennsylvania in 1765 by Edinburgh alumni John Morgan and is currently ranked 1st in the UK's most recent RAE. The Edinburgh Seven, the first group of matriculated undergraduate female students at any British university, began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869. Although they were unsuccessful in their struggle to
graduate and qualify as doctors, the campaign they fought gained national attention and won them many supporters including Charles Darwin. It put the rights of women to a University education on the national
political agenda which eventually resulted in legislation to ensure that women could study at University in 1877. In 2015 the Edinburgh Seven were commemorated with a plaque at the University of Edinburgh, as part of the Historic Scotland Commemorative Plaques Scheme
The University of Bristol(abbreviated as . in post-nominal letters, sometimes referred to as Bristol is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.
It received its royal charter in 1909,and its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.
Bristol is organised into six academic faculties composed of multiple schools and departments running over 200 undergraduate courses situated in the Clifton area along with three of its nine halls of residence.
The other six halls are located in Stoke Bishop, an outer city suburb located 1.8 miles away. The university had a total income of £485.5 million in 2013/14, of which £cotillion was from research grants and is the largest independent employer in Bristol
The University of Bristol is ranked 11th in the UK for its research, according to the Research Excellence Framework REF 2014 by GPA.
The University of Bristol has been ranked 37th jot 34th by the SQ World University Rankings, and is ranked the top ten of UK
A highly selective institution, it has an average of 6.4 Sciences faculty to 13.1 (Medicine & Dentistry Faculty applicants for each undergraduate place. The University of Bristol is the youngest British university to be ranked among the top 40 institutions in the world according to the World University Rankings.
Current academics include 21 fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, 13 fellows of the British Academy, 13 fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 44 fellows of the Royal Society.
The university has been associated with 12 Nobel laureates throughout its history, including Paul Dirac, Sir William Ramsay, Cecil Frank Powell, Sir Winston Churchill, Dorothy Hodgkin, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Max , Gerard , Sir Francis Mott, Harold Pinter, Jean-Marie Gustav Le and Angus .
Bristol is a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities, the European-wide Grout and the Worldwide Universities Network, of which the university's previous vice-chancellor, Eric Thomas, was chairman from 2005 to 2007
In addition, the university holds an Erasmus Charter, sending more than 500 students per year to partner institutions in Europe.
After the founding of the University College in 1876, Government support began in 1889. After mergers with the Bristol Medical School in 1893 and the Merchant ' Technical College in 1909,
this funding allowed the opening of a new medical school and an engineering subjects that remain among the university's greatest strengths. In 1908, gifts from the Fry and Wills families, particularly £100,000 from
Henry Wills III £6 in today's money, were provided to endow a University for Bristol and the West of England, provided that a royal charter could be obtained within two years. In December 1909, the King granted such a charter and erected the University of Bristol.
Henry Wills became its first chancellor and Lloyd Morgan the first vice-chancellor
Wills died in 1911 and in tribute his sons George and Harry built the Wills Memorial Building, starting in 1913 and finally finishing in 1925.
Today, it houses parts of the academic provision for earth sciences and law, and graduation ceremonies are held in its Great Hall. The Wills Memorial Building is a Grade II* listed building
In 1946, the university established the first drama department in the country.
In the same year, Bristol began offering special entrance exams and grants to aid the resettlement of servicemen returning home. Student numbers continued to increase, and the Faculty of Engineering eventually
needed the new premises that were to become Queen's Building in 1955. This substantial building housed all of the university's engineers until 1996, when the department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science moved over the road into the new Merchant ' Building to make space for these rapidly
expanding fields. Today, Queen's Building caters for most of the teaching needs of the Faculty and provides academic space for the "heavy" engineering subjects civil, mechanical, and aeronautics
With unprecedented growth in the 1960s, particularly in undergraduate numbers, the Student's Union eventually acquired larger premises in a new building in the Clifton area of the city, in 1965. This building was more spacious than the Victoria Rooms, which were now given over to the Department of Music.
The new Union provides many practice and performance rooms, some specialist rooms, as well as three bars: Bar 100; the Mandela known as Armand the Avon Gorge. Whilst spacious, the Union building is thought by many to be ugly
and out of character compared to the architecture of the rest of the Clifton area, having been mentioned in a BBC poll to find the worst architectural eyesores in Britain. The university has proposed relocating the Union to a more central location as part of its development ''.recently, plans for redevelopment of the current building have been proposed.
