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The Donnellan lectures; The Donnellan lectures were founded by the board on 22 February 1794, to carry out the intentions of Miss Anne Donnellan, of the parish of St George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, spinster, who bequeathed £1,243 to the College "for the encouragement of religion, learning, and good manners; the particular mode of application being left to the Provost and Senior Fellows".
The board started to fracture, with at least two disenchanted board members peeling off to meet privately with prominent Harvard faculty members and former Harvard deans, in a bid to get ...
He joined the Department of History faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. In the 2012/2013 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. [1] As of December 2023, he is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. [2] [3]
He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History [12] and of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences journal World History Studies. [5] "Imperial History and the Human Future", his inaugural lecture as Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London, was published by History Workshop Journal in ...
Alao delivered his inaugural lecture as professor of African studies at the Edward Safra Lecture Theatre, King's College London on 26 April 2016. The lecture, titled "Africa: A voice to be Heard, Not a Problem to be Solved" is believed to be the first to be delivered by a Black African since the establishment of the college in 1829. [5] [6]
Harvard biology professor Richard Losick calls the note "a severe punishment" and one suspected student describes it as "almost the kiss of death in the academic realm." [ 36 ] During their absence, students must "hold a full-time, paid, non-academic job in a non-family situation, for at least six consecutive months" before becoming eligible ...
Poster advertising Pausch's lecture "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" (also called "The Last Lecture" [1]) was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007, [2] that received widespread media coverage, and was the basis for The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Wall Street Journal reporter ...
James Joseph Duane (born July 30, 1959) [1] is an American law professor at the Regent University School of Law, former criminal defense attorney, and Fifth Amendment expert. Duane has received considerable online attention for his lecture "Don't Talk to the Police", in which he advises citizens to avoid incriminating themselves by speaking to ...