Chaim Weizmann and the Elusive Manchester Professorship

AJS Review ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-246
Author(s):  
Jehuda Reinharz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Full Professorship ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

In February 1912 Arthur Hantke, a member of the Engeres Aktions- Comite (EAC or SAC), asked Chaim Weizmann to undertake a propaganda tour in the United States.1 Weizmann refused, but did agree to a shorter tour to European cities during the university semester break in March. In explaining his reasons for traveling only to Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and Heidelberg,2 Weizmann revealed some of his plans for the future:As you know, I want to go to Palestine in 3–4 years. But I want to go to Palestine not when I have nothing to lose here, but on the contrary after having achieved everything here. This “everything” consists of two things: a full professorship and admission to the Royal Society. The former has been achieved except for the official announcement, which will presumably come during the summer term [sic]. The second is somewhat more difficult for a Russian Jew. However, the matter has got to the point where my candidature has been established. How long the candidature will “stand” depends on the scope and character of my scientific work, for in my case this is the only decisive criterion. I must therefore strain every nerve to work and publish a great deal, for admission to the Royal Society will open all doors for me here. I shall then be worth ten times as much to you….

scholarly journals Patient-Computer Dialogue: A Review,

2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 71-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.V. Slack
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

AbstractSince the first study of communication between patient and computer was performed at the University of Wisconsin in 1965, programs for patient-computer dialogue have been developed, implemented, and studied in numerous settings in the United States and abroad, and the results have been encouraging. This review presents a brief history of patient-computer dialogue together with suggested guidelines for programs in the future.

Future of Engineering Technology Education

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Rennels
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
State Government ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technology Programs ◽  
The University

Engineering technology education in the United States can trace its history back to the Wickenden and Spahr study of 1931, which identified the place of engineering technology education in the technical spectrum [1]. By 1945, the Engineering Council for Professional Development developed the first accreditation procedures for two-year engineering technology programs and by 1946, the first program was accredited. On this timeline the Purdue University engineering technology programs at Indianapolis can trace their history back to 1946 [2]. Over the last 70 years, engineering technology education in the United States has distinguished itself by a history of evolution, development and continuous improvement. Engineering technology education faces significant challenges during the next several years. These challenges are driven by the rapid evolution of computer technology and changing expectations of the educational process by the stakeholders. Stakeholders include not only students and faculty but also various groups in both the public and private sectors including industry, professional organizations, funding agencies, state government and the university system. Two specific challenges facing engineering technology educators are ‘basic faculty credentials’ and changing expectations for ‘creative activities’. These two challenges can be delineated by the following questions: • Will a doctorate degree be necessary for engineering technology faculty in the future for promotion and tenure in the university environment? • Will applied research or pedagogical research be ‘good enough’ for tenure? This paper addresses these two issues using a study of current engineering technology faculty hiring practices as a basis. Ultimately, critical future discussions must occur as engineering technology education continues to evolve and move into the future.

Affirmative Action for the Future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Sterba
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Affirmative Action Program ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Action Program ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

Diversity instead of race-based affirmative action developed in the United States from the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke decision in 1978 to the present. There have been both objections to this form of affirmative action and defenses of it. Fisher v. University of Texas could decide the future of all race-based affirmative action in the United States. Yet however the Fisher case is decided, there is a form of non-race-based affirmative action that all could find to be morally preferable for the future. A diversity affirmative action program could be designed to look for students who either have experienced racial discrimination themselves or who understand well, in some other way, how racism harms people in the United States, and thus are able to authoritatively and effectively speak about it in an educational context.

George Albert Boulenger, 1858 - 1937

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
The University

George Albert Boulenger was born in Brussels on 19 October 1858 and died on 23 November 1937. He was the son of Gustave Boulenger, notary of Mons, and was educated at the University of Brussels. From boyhood he was interested in animals and whilst at the University became known at the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels, being appointed to the staff as an assistant naturalist in 1880. Two years later he was invited by Dr Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, to join the staff of the British Museum, and was appointed a first class assistant in that year. This appointment he held till his retirement in 1920. He held honorary degrees LL.D. (St Andrews), Ph.D. (Giessen), and D.Sc. (Louvain), and was an honorary member of scientific societies in Belgium, Brazil, Chili, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. He became a naturalized British subject soon after his appointment to the Museum and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. After his retirement he returned to Belgium, working on the systematics of European roses in the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat in Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed to the Belgian Order of Leopold.

“THE DISTURBANCES OVERSEAS”: A COMPARATIVE REPORT ON THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH STUDIES

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-472
Author(s):  
Regenia Gagnier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The United States ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
College And University ◽  
The Future ◽  
Professional Body ◽  
The University

This is an adaptation of a talk first presented to the Council for College and University English (CCUE) conference on English for the Millennium, Sept. 1996. CCUE is the British professional body that represents the discipline and departments of English in England, Scotland, and Wales. The talk was meant to provide a transatlantic perspective on the future of the discipline. Originally it was published in CCUE News (June 1997) and later adapted to presentations throughout the U.K. The excerpts here focus on issues of multiculturalism, interdisciplinarity, and cultural studies.WHEN I DRAW ON MY EXPERIENCE in the United States it is not because I am unaware that the centrality of English literary history is less controversial in England than in its former colony, but because the areas that I see as fundamental to the future of English — a diverse Anglophone population and the demands of the marketplace — are fundamental to both. Twenty years ago, American and British academics were different worlds. The formal democratization of the university and official ideologies of neoliberalism, or market orientation, have brought them closer together. My argument is that the future of English depends less on theories or ideas than on human geographies, institutional conditions, and our embeddedness in market society.

Cultural Mixture: Yenching Students and Missionary Christianity

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Jinghuan Shi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Education ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Sentiment ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The University

AbstractYenching University, one of the most influential institutions in Chinese education in the first half of the twentieth century, also was emblematic of Sino-American cultural interchanges. Its development in the late 1910s and the 1920s coincided with a strong upsurge in national sentiment and anti-Christian movements in China. When the Communist victory and the Korean War brought patriotic anti-American feelings to a peak, the university was deeply shaken and was forced to close its doors. Forty years after its closure, Yenching’s name still arouses memories and fierce unresolved controversies. Both strong critics and defenders of the school need to include the Yenching experience in any discussion of cultural activities between the United States and China in the twentieth century. Yenching is more than a historical interlude, for the Yenching experience sheds light on issues that may influence the future of educational and cultural interactions in Sino-American relations.

Master of the Master Gland: Choh Hao Li, the University of California, and Science, Migration, and Race

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Zulueta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pituitary Hormones ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This essay examines the origins of the relationship between Choh Hao Li and the University of California, Berkeley. Li came to the United States from China in 1935 for graduate study at the University of Michigan, but ended up enrolling at Berkeley. Over the course of the next two decades, Li went from being a foreign graduate student in chemistry on a temporary visa to an internationally recognized leader in the biochemistry of endocrinology at the head of his own laboratory and a naturalized citizen of the United States. At what was otherwise a dark time for Americans of Chinese descent, Li was garnering adulation in the popular press. He was called the "master of the master gland" for his successes both in isolating and in synthesizing pituitary hormones. Specifically, the essay explores the making of the "master of the master gland" from the perspectives of the history of science and the history of race and migration in the United States, tracing the interplay among Li's scientific work, his migrations, his career aspirations, and his legal status in the United States. A Chinese intellectual cast adrift by the shifting geopolitics of World War II and the early Cold War, Li danced delicately along the margins of membership in American society during the 1940s, only arriving at what turned out to be his final destination after careful and protracted negotiations with officials of the U.S. government, with influential members of the international scientific community, and with representatives of the University of California, Berkeley.

scholarly journals Address of the President, Sir Archibald Geikie, K. C. B., at the anniversary meeting on November 30, 1909

1910 ◽  
Vol 83 (562) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Character ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organic Remains ◽  
Foreign Member ◽  
Animal World

In addition to the heavy losses which French science has had to deplore within the last two or three years, another has arisen from the decease of Albert Gaudry, who for more than half a century was one of the leaders of palæontological science, not in France alone, but in every country where the history of life upon the globe is studied. By his original investigations at Pikermi, he added a new and vivid chapter to the records of vertebrate existence, while by his volumes on the genetic connections of the animal world, as shown by fossil organic remains, he gave powerful support to the reception of the doctrines of evolution. Great as was his scientific genius, it was not more impressive than the charm of his personal character. Those who were privileged to know him will long mourn an irreparable blank in their circle of friendship. Astronomical science has lost one of its most notable cultivators, and the United States have been deprived of their most famous man of science by the death of Simon Newcomb. The successive stages in his interesting career have been sketched by himself in his pleasant autobiography. On his frequent visits to this country he never failed to appear at the meetings of the Royal Society, where he was always welcomed. The value of his scientific work was recognised by the Society as far back as 1877, when he was elected a Foreign Member, so that at the time of his death his name stood at the head of our list in point of seniority. In 1890 our highest distinction, the Copley medal, was awarded to him.

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