Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 9 miles west of Boston. Founded in 1948 as a coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University, Brandeis is the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. Despite its relatively recent founding and small size, the university is highly regarded academically and has several first-rate research programs (particularly in the Life Sciences). In addition ...

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Image:Brandeis-Usen Castle.JPG As of 2005, the university had approximately 3,158 undergraduates, 1,872 graduate students and 460 faculty members. The schools of the University include: The College of Arts and Sciences The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Heller School for Social Policy and Management Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies< ...

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Aron Gurwitsch (January 17, 1901 — June 25, 1973) was a Lithuania-born American philosopher. Aron Gurwitsch - Bibliography. Théorie du champ de la conscience (1957) Leibniz (1974) Brandeis University, New School University, School of Brentano, Husserl See also. Brandeis University New School University School of Brentano Husserl ...

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Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ Wylie: Bstan 'dzin Rgya mtsho) (b. July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. The fifth of nine children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (reincarnation) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of three. On November 17, 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Ti ...

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• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Early life
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• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Foreign relations
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Social and political stances
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Tibetan independence movement
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Global political stances
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Global social stances
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Criticism
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - International influence
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Writings of the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Quotations
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Awards given to the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Nobel Peace Prize
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Films about the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama - Trivia

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Arno Joseph Mayer (June 19, 1926 -) is Luxembourg-born American historian of modern Europe, diplomatic history, and the Holocaust. A self-proclaimed "left dissident Marxist", Mayer's major interests are in modernization theory and what he calls "The Thirty's Year's Crisis" between 1914 and 1945. Mayer received his education at the City College of New York and Yale University. He has been professor at Wesleyan University (1952-1953), Brandeis University (1954-1958), Harvard Univ ...

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Central Perk is a fictional coffee shop in New York City's Greenwich Village, and one of the focal points of the popular television sitcom Friends. It was the main hang out of the six main characters, and where they spent the majority of their free time talking about their problems. It is based on Cholmondeley's, a coffee shop and lounge in Usen Castle at Brandeis University, the alma mater of the show's creators. The space was formerly occupied by the gang's old hangout, a bar. Central Perk is owned by a man named Terry ...

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Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 - ) is an important author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. She is of Parsi Zoroastrian background, and has depicted Parsi life, customs, and the Zoroastrian religion in great detail in most of her works. She is also the recipient of many awards, including the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest honor. Sidhwa was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but her family moved shortly thereafter to Lahore. She currently resides in Houston, Texas (where she has lived for the past several decades) and maintains ...

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Wynton Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era, and one of the best-known instrumentalists in classical music. As an African-American, Wynton Marsalis has been forthright in addressing matters of race. Marsalis has made his reputation with a combination of exceptional skills in jazz performance and composition; a sophisticated, yet earthy and hip, personal style; an impressive knowledge of jazz and jazz history; and a virtuosity in c ...

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Waltham is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 59,226. The city is 10 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts on the Charles River. Waltham is partly surrounded by Interstate 95 (I-95). It is bordered to the west by Weston and Lincoln, to the south by Newton, to the east by Belmont and Watertown, and to the north by Lexington. Waltham is home to Brandeis University, Bentley College, and The Sports Authority Training Center, which serves a ...

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Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. is an evangelical Old Testament scholar, writer, popular public speaker, and educator. Walter Kaiser Jr. - Life and Career.. Walter Kaiser was born in 1933. He studied at Wheaton College, Illinois and earned a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Kaiser has published widely and is an influential evangelical Old Testament scholar. He currently serves as president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Previous to his appointment at G.C.T.S. he was academic dean and Pro ...

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Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women at the same school facilities; co-ed is a shortened adjectival form of co-educational. "Coed" is an informal (and increasingly archaic) term for a female student attending such a college or university. Before the 1960's, most institutions of higher education restricted their enrollment to a single sex. Coeducation - Coeducation in the United Kingdom. See Education in the United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, m ...

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Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. As a self-acknowledged composer of experimental music, Lucier's compositions generally deal with some element of indeterminacy. Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and studied at Yale and Brandeis University and ...

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Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yehuda Bauer - Biography. Born and raised in Prague, Czechoslovakia, young Yehuda Bauer acquired fluency in the Czech, Slovak and German languages. Later in life he learned Hebrew, Yiddish, English, French and Polish. His father had strong Zionist convictions and during the 1930s tried to raise money to get ...

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Charles H. Bennett is an IBM Fellow at IBM Research. Bennett's recent work at IBM has concentrated on a re-examination of the physical basis of information, applying quantum physics to the problems surrounding information exchange. He has played a major role in elucidating the interconnections between physics and information, particularly in the realm of quantum computation, but also in cellular automata and reversible computing. Dr. Bennett was born in 1943. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Brandeis University in 1964, and r ...

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Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs. Abraham Maslow - Biography. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but they insisted that he study law. At first, Abraham acceded to their wishes and enrolled in the City College of New York. However, after three semesters, he transferred to Cornell then back to CCNY.Af ...

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Friends was a long-running American television sitcom centered on the lives of a group of six twenty-somethings (eventually thirty-somethings) consisting of three men and three women living in New York City. The program was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television for NBC in the US, first broadcast on that network and followed by other broadcast networks in numerous countries throughout the world. In the US, its first episode was aired on September 22, 1994, the last on Ma ...

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Alex is an African grey parrot whose use of language has been studied intensively for over 20 years by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and currently at Brandeis University. Alex has a vocabulary of around 100 words, but is exceptional in that he appears to have understanding of what he says. For example, when Alex is shown an object and is asked about its shape, color, or material, he can label it correctly. If asked the difference between two objects, he will also answer that, but i ...

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Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States, co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and, later, a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for allegedly dealing cocaine. Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, but practiced most of his activism in the 1970s, and has rema ...

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Tenzin Gyatso (Tibetan: བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ Wylie: Bstan 'dzin Rgya mtsho) (b. July 6, 1935) is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. The fifth of nine children of a farming family in the Tibetan province of Amdo, he was proclaimed the tulku (reincarnation) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of three. On November 17, 1950, at the age of fifteen, he was enthroned as Tibet's Head of State and most important political ruler, while Ti ...

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• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Exile in India
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Foreign relations
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Social and political stances
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Tibetan independence movement
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Global political stances
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Global social stances
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Criticism
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - International influence
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Writings of the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Quotations
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Awards given to the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Nobel Peace Prize
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Films about the Dalai Lama
• Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama - Trivia

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Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) was a Jewish theoretical physicist, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "miracle ...

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