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List Of Barnard College People
The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Barnard College through attendance as a student, service as a member of the faculty or staff, or award of the Barnard Medal of Distinction. Notable alumnae Academics and scientists * Anne Anastasi (1928), American psychologist known for her pioneering development of psychometrics, former president of the American Psychological Association, recipient of the National Medal of Science * Naomi André (1989), professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Natalie Angier (1978), author, science journalist for ''The New York Times'', winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting * Nina Ansary (1989), historian, author, one of the six UN Women Champions for Innovation, daughter of Iranian diplomat and philanthropist Hushang Ansary * Cicely Applebaum Ryshpan (1904–2004), economist who worked with labor unions, the US federal government, various United Nations agencies, and the World Bank * Jacq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard College
Barnard College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia University's trustees to create an affiliated college named after Columbia's 10th president, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard, Frederick A. P. Barnard. The college is one of the original Seven Sisters (colleges), Seven Sisters—seven Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that were historically Women's colleges in the United States, women's colleges. Barnard is a Columbia University-affiliated undergraduate college with independent admission, curricula, and finances. Students share classes, libraries, clubs, Fraternities and sororities, sororities, athletic fields, and dining halls with Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutgers University
Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of nine colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.Stoeckel, Althea"Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a Private university, private liberal arts college. It has evolved into a Mixed-sex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrika B
Hendrika is a Dutch feminine given name, derived from the male name Hendrik ("Henry"). Most people with the name use short forms in daily life, like ''Henda'' (in Afrikaans), ''Hennie'', ''Henny'', ''Hetty'', ''Ria'', ''Rie'', ''Riek'' and ''Rika''. Hendrika can refer to: * Hendrika B. Cantwell (born 1925), Dutch-American clinical professor of pediatrics, advocate for abused and neglected children * Hendrika C. "Rie" de Balbian Verster (1890–1990), Dutch painter * Hendrika Margaretha "Hetty" van Gurp (born 1949), Dutch-born Canadian educator * Hendrika Hofhuis (1780–1849), last Dutch woman to (by her request) be put on trial for witch craft * Hendrika A.M. "Ria" van der Horst (born 1932), Dutch swimmer * Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen (July 3, 1887 – February 26, 1974) was a Dutch physicist known for her early contributions to the theory of magnetism. She studied at Leiden University under the guidance of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, obtaining he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalism in the United States, Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edyta Bojanowska
Edyta M. Bojanowska is an American literary scholar and slavicist. She is a professor of Slavic languages and literature at Yale University and is currently the chair of Yale's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Biography Bojanowska received a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study on a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies. She taught at Rutgers University before joining the Yale faculty. Bojanowska's specialization is on empire and nationalism in nineteenth-century Russian literature and intellectual history. Her book, ''A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada'' (2018), which recounts the nineteenth-century voyage of a Russian frigate based on explorer Ivan Goncharov’s travelogue, received an honorable mention for the Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms. Chemists carefully measure substance proportions, chemical reaction rates, and other chemical properties. In Commonwealth English, pharmacists are often called chemists. Chemists use their knowledge to learn the composition and properties of unfamiliar substances, as well as to reproduce and synthesize large quantities of useful naturally occurring substances and create new artificial substances and useful processes. Chemists may specialize in any number of Chemistry#Subdisciplines, subdisciplines of chemistry. Materials science, Materials scientists and metallurgists sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Bishop
Hazel Gladys Bishop (August 17, 1906 – December 5, 1998) was an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and the founder of the cosmetics company Hazel Bishop, Inc. She was the inventor of the first long-lasting lipstick. Early life Bishop was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was one of two children of Henry and Mabel Bishop. Her father was a businessman and ran a dozen successful enterprises that included numerous stores in Hoboken. She attended Barnard College in New York, originally enrolling in pre-med, with intentions of becoming a physician. She was graduated from Barnard in 1929 with a B.A. in chemistry, with plans on attending Columbia for her graduate medical studies. Bishop attended Columbia in the evenings for her graduate classes in the fall of 1929, but the stock market crash that occurred in October of that same year resulted in the end of her academic career. Career From 1935 to 1942, she worked as research assistant to A.B. Cannon in a dermatological labor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chauvenet Prize
The Chauvenet Prize is an annual award given by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate. The Chauvenet Prize was the first award established by the Mathematical Association of America. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet and was established through a gift from J. L. Coolidge in 1925. A gift from MAA president Walter B. Ford in 1928 allowed the award to be given every three years instead of the originally planned 5 years. Winners *1925 G. A. Bliss *1929 T. H. Hildebrandt *1932 G. H. Hardy *1935 Dunham Jackson *1938 G. T. Whyburn *1941 Saunders Mac Lane *1944 R. H. Cameron *1947 Paul Halmos *1950 Mark Kac *1953 E. J. McShane *1956 Richard H. Bruck *1960 Cornelius Lanczos *1963 Philip J. Davis *1964 Leon Henkin *1965 Jack K. Hale & Joseph P. LaSalle *1967 Guido Weiss *1968 Mark Kac *1970 Shiing Shen Chern *1971 Norman Levinson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Birman
Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927, in New York CityLarry Riddle., ''Biographies of Women Mathematicians'', at Agnes Scott College) is an American mathematician, specializing in low-dimensional topology. She has made contributions to the study of knots, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces, geometric group theory, contact structures and dynamical systems. Birman is research professor emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she has been since 1973. Family Her parents were George and Lillian Lyttle, both Jewish immigrants. Her father was from Russia but grew up in Liverpool, England. Her mother was born in New York and her parents were Russian-Polish immigrants. At age 17, George emigrated to the US and became a successful dress manufacturer. He appreciated the opportunities from having a business but he wanted his daughters to focus on education. She has three children, Kenneth P. Birman, Deborah Birman Shlider, and Carl David Birman. Her late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in Illinois. Chartered by the Illinois General Assembly in 1851, Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. By 1900, the university was the third-largest Higher education in the United States, university in the United States, after University of Michigan, Michigan and Harvard University, Harvard. Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917. Northwestern is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools in the fields of Kellogg School of Management, management, Pritzker School of Law, law, Medill School of Journalism, journalism, McCormick School of Engineering, enginee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Biondi
Martha Biondi is an American historian. She is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Biography Biondi was raised in Connecticut. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her specialization is 20th-century African American history with a focus on social movements. She served as chair of Northwestern University's African American studies department. Biondi won the Wesley Logan Prize from the American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world, claiming over 10,000 members. Founded in 1884, AHA works to protect academic free ... and the Association for the Study of African American Life for her book, ''The Black Revolution on Campus'' (2014), which documented the history of black student activism in American ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen M
Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, Georgia, United States, a small city * Helen, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated place * Helen, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Raleigh County * Helen Falls, a waterfall in Ontario, Canada * Lake Helen (other), several places called Helen Lake or Lake Helen * Helen, an ancient name of Makronisos island, Greece * The Hellenic Republic, Greece Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Helen'' (album), a 1981 Grammy-nominated album by Helen Humes * Helen (band) * ''Helen'' (2008 film), a British drama starring Annie Townsend * ''Helen'' (2009 film), an American drama film starring Ashley Judd * ''Helen'' (2017 film), an Iranian drama film * ''Helen'' (2019 film), an Indian film produced by Vineeth Sreenivasan * He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
