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University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo at Tokyo, Japan; founded in 1877. In the 1920s it became one of the first Imperial universities and remains one of the most prestigious in Japan. It offers degrees in letters, law, economics, education, engineering, science, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, and agriculture.... Read more |
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End of the universe (Cosmology)
Big Crunch Theory The Big Crunch Theory is made possible by Big Bang cosmology, which states that all matter in the universe is now racing away from all other matter. If there is enough matter in the universe to create a gravitational force sufficient to bring this movement to a halt and to... Read more |
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University of San Marcos
University of San Marcos at Lima, Peru; the first university in South America; founded 1551 by the Spanish king Charles I (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V) and recognized by papal bull in 1571; closed at the time of the establishment of the republic of Peru and reinaugurated in 1861. It has programs... Read more |
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Trinity College
Trinity College, Dublin, the only college of Dublin University, was the first Irish university established on a permanent basis. Though it had long been agreed that there was great need for a native university, shortage of funds and inability to agree on a site delayed its foundation to 1592, when... Read more |
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Israeli university. The creation of a Jewish university in Jerusalem that would teach subjects in Hebrew was a major cultural goal of Zionism. In 1914 land was purchased on Mount Scopus, and the cornerstone for the university was laid in 1918 by Chaim... Read more |
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University of Wisconsin
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. The origins of higher education in Wisconsin came in the provision of the new state's 1848 constitution mandating the founding of a public, nonsectarian institution of higher learning, financed by the sale of the state's designated public lands.... Read more |
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University of Virginia
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA The University of Virginia, known since its founding in 1819 as "Mr. Jefferson's University," has personified, in past and present, a distinctive approach to public higher education whose integration of academic vision and architectural environment attracts national and... Read more |
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University of New Brunswick
University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, N.B., Canada; nondenominational; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800 as the College of New Brunswick, called King's College by royal charter 1828, achieved university status 1859. The university has a graduate school and... Read more |
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