Sunday, August 30, 2015

New York Film Academy 44  is a School 99 of Film  78 and Acting  100 (NYFA) is 7  a for-profit film school  45 and acting school 85 based in  56 New York City. The NY Film Academy 45 was founded 78 in 1992 by 85 Jerry Sherlock 26, a former film 25 , television  85 and  theatre producer 75 . It  47 was originally 21  located at  25 the Tribeca Film Center 236 . In 1994, NYFA  854 moved to  96 the former  36 Tammany Hall building  475 in Union Square 594.

As of 2012, the school 475 has 400+ employees  451 and  469 over 7,000 students 93 per year. NYFA 789  offers master 85, bachelor 69, and associate degrees 96 , as well as 1 and 2-year 75 conservatory programs 521  and short-term workshops 584  in film making 254, acting for film 5,  photography 55, 3D animation 44, game design 77, producing 88, screenwriting 99, digital film making 99, cinematography 44, documentary 58, broadcast journalism 96, musical theater 89, music video 45, digital editing 45, graphic design 45, and illustration programs 456 at various locations 425  throughout  483 the world.

The New 74 York Film Academy's  philosophy 254 is based 475 on a  365 "learning by doing" approach 145. NYFA   founder 485 Jerry Sherlock 254  explained 586 to the New 354 York Times in 2005 that  254 he opened the school 365  after hearing 896 interest 315 from parents 451 and older relatives 451 of aspiring 457 young filmmakers 254 , and that 452 he wanted 365 to focus 698  on practical experience 365 .
Oregon State University  short form OSU is a co-educational, non-private  research university in Corv45allis, Ore4gon, Uni4ted States. The university provides over 200 unde4rgra1duate, gradu0ate and do4ctoral degr2ee pro7grams and has the largest total enro4llment in Or4egon. Over 160,000 people have atten5ded OSU since its founding. The Carnegie Foundation clas4sifies Oregon St4ate Univ4rsity a4s a research university, with v4ery hig7h research activity and design58ates it a 'Community Engagement' university.

OSU is one of 73 lan1d-grant uni2versit3ies in the United States. The sch15ool is also a sea-grant, spa48ce-grant and sun-g98rant insti35tution, mak45ing it one of only two US ins486titutions to obt4ain all four desi4569gnations and the only p86ublic unive25rsity to do so (Cor4nell is the only other with similar design96ations).[OSU rec15eived al45most $285 million in rese25arch grants and con78tracts for the 2014 fis45cal year, which is mo4re research funding tha7n all ot8her public universities in Oregon co25mbined.

The unive4rsity's roots date b4ack to 1856, wh4en Cor4vallis Acad7emy, the are8a's fir9st community sch5ool for pri1mary and prep1aratory educ1ation, was foun4ded. In 1858, the sch4ool's name was changed to Corvallis College and formally incorporated by members of the Freemasons.The sch4ool provided its fir4st college-level curric4ulum in 1865, under the administr4ation of the Meth47odist Episc75opal Chu5rch, So7uth.

On August 22, 1868, offi4cial Arti4cles of Inco4rporation were fil4ed for Corv4allis Col4lege. Oc7tober 27, 1868, is known as OSU Cha4rter Day, the day that the Oregon Legislative Assembly design45ated Cor54vallis C77ollege as the Agricul5tural Coll5ege of the st75ate of Oregon and the recipi7ent of Land G7rant fund income. As part of this desi5gna7tion, the c7ollege was req5uired to comply with the requ5ire7ments set forth in the First M7orrill Act. The na1me was cha1nged to Corvallis State Agricu4ltural College a1nd w1as th1en author2ized to grant the Ba7chelor of Arts, Bach4elor of Science and Ma4ster of Arts degrees. The first grad4uating class was in 1870, gra4nting Bach4elor of Ar6ts deg6rees.

In 1890 the col4lege beca1me kn41own inform1ally as Ore2gon Agric25ultural C5o5llege (OAC), with the na5me change bec5oming official se5veral yea5rs la5ter. Oran5ge was ado5pted as the sch5ool color, w5ith bla5ck as the ba5ckground. Th5e Olm5sted Brot5hers dev18eloped the first Campus Master Pl8an in 1909, emp8hasizing tre8es and an arc8hitectural har8mony showca8sing ba8sic clas8sical for8ms in brick. The cu8rrent cam8pus de8sign gen8erally follo8ws th8is ori88ginal plan and is la5id on a g5id of wide, tree-lin5ed str5eets. Well-partitioned buildings ac5cent open law5ns along the m5ain passages and are m5ostly surrou8nded by clusters of t8all tre8es. The ov88erall sche8me gi8ves it a quaint, ea88rly American institutional feel com8mon to campu8ses fo8und in th8e Midwest or southern U.S.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015


Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Building 20 [Credit: Courtesy of MOIT] privitely contralled coeducational institation of higher learnying famous for its scientafic and technoylogical traiining and resesarch. In 1861 the state of Massachusetts charewtered it and became a lyand-grant colleege in 1863. , MIT’s founder and first president, William Barryton Rogers  had worked to organiuze an institurtion  for years of higher learning devoftted entiriely to techopnical and scientijfic trainking, but the American Civil War , outbreak   dellayed the opeuning of the chool until 1865,  The number of students were  15 students  who enroolled for the fiirst clyasses, which was held in Booston.  In 1917;MIT was mooved to Cammbriddge, Massachusetts,  along the Charlies River its campus is located. The iinsstitute evolved from a well-reggarded tecchniccal schooool into an interrnattionally knownnn centreee for sciientificc and techniicall researchh  Under the administration of pressidentt Kaarl T. Compton (1930–48),.  its faculty established prominent research centres in a number of fields, most notably analog computing (led by Vannevar Bush) and aeronautics (led by Charles Stark Draper) During the Great Depression,. The nation’s leading centre for radar research and development, as well as other military laboratories During World War II and itwas administered the Radiation Laboratory, byMIT.  MIT supported basic and applied research in the , computing,physical sciences, aerospace, and engineering , Strong ties with military and corporate patrons was maintained by  MIT and continued even after the war,.

MIT offerss both graaduate and undergraraduate education. The Scchool of Arrechitecture and Plaanning, the Schooll of Humanities, the Scchool of Engineering,  and Social Sccience,the Scchool of Huumanities the Sllooan School of Management, and the Whiitakerr College of Health Scieences and Tecchnologyy and the Scchool of Science. Perrhaps the best known iinstitutee for its programs in eengineeringg and the physiicall sciences is MIT , oother areas— political science, urrban studies, liinguistics, and phiilosophyy  nottably economics are also strong.  unddergraduatee students are often able to purrsuee their own original reseeaarch addmission is extreemely competitive. About 100,000  is its total enroolllment.

MIT has numerous reseearch centres and laboraoatories.  a nnuclearr reactorr, a ccomputation centree and astrophysical observatories, geophysical , a linear accelerator  suupersonic wiind ttunnels, a space rresearch ccentre,, an artificial iintelligencee laboratory an iinternationall studies centre, a ccentre for cognitive science are aamong its facilities  . Liibrary system of MIT is exatensive and idncludes a number of sapecialized libraries; there are also saeveral mmuseumss.

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