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Derek Peterson, professor in the departments of History and Afroamerican and African Studies; Rebecca J. Scott, professor of History, won the 2006 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery; Heather Ann Thompson, professor of American history; for her book on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.
The Graduate School offers graduate education and training in biomedical, health, and human service sciences. It offers 23 Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree programs, and three post-baccalaureate certificate programs in these areas of study.
The University of Michigan traces its origins to August 26, 1817, [1] when it was established in the Territory of Michigan as the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania through a legislative act signed by acting governor and secretary William Woodbridge, chief justice Augustus B. Woodward, and judge John Griffin.
Ed White (COE: MSAE 1959, Hon. PhD Astronautics 1965), first American to walk in space part of an all UM crew, 1965; died in Apollo 1 test accident, 1967 Apollo 15 's all-Michigan crew left a plaque on the Moon establishing a lunar chapter of the University of Michigan Alumni Association in 1971: [ 12 ]
The Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science (PTRS) department, established in 1956, offers a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree, which is a 3-year program, a PhD in rehabilitation sciences and a dual DPT/PhD program. In the 2010 edition of U.S. News & World Report physical therapy school rankings, UMB PTRS ranked 15th in the nation.
In 2012, the School of Information and the School of Public Health began offering a new join graduate program in Health Informatics. [9] As of 2019, the School of Information offers a 34-credit, Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) degree. The degree was developed in collaboration with the U-M Office of Academic Innovation to meet the growing ...
In the 1980s there was heated debate over whether Library Schools should be a part of major research-oriented universities. The University of Chicago's Graduate Library School was closed in 1989 and its closing was attributed to "the divorce of the School's research activities from what the profession perceived as its needs for training."
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County [6] (UMBC) is a public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County.It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, [7] 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, and 29 graduate certificate programs) and the first university research park in Maryland. [8]