The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence,Kansas,United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side:the university's medical school and hospital in Kansas City,Kansas,the Edwards Campus in Overland Park. There are also educational and research sites in Garden City,Hays,Leavenworth,Parsons,and Topeka,an agricultural education center in rural north Douglas County,and branches of the medical school in Salina and Wichita. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.
Collin College is a public community college district in Texas. Established in 1985,the district has grown as the county has grown from around 5,000 students in 1986 to more than 58,800 credit and noncredit students.
Kenneth T. Jackson is an urban,social,cultural historian,author,and academic. He is the Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University,where he has also chaired the Department of History.
Kathmandu University (KU) is a public autonomous university in Nepal. It is the third oldest university in Nepal,located in Dhulikhel of Kavrepalanchok District,about 30 km (19 mi) east of Kathmandu. It was established in 1991 with the motto "Quality Education for Leadership." KU operates through its seven schools,and campuses in Dhulikhel,Patan,Lalitpur and Panchkhal. The university offers undergraduate,graduate and postgraduate courses in a variety of fields.
Korea University is a private university in Seoul,South Korea. Established in 1905,the university was named after Goguryeo. The university is one of the SKY universities.
The University of Karachi is a public research university located in Karachi,Sindh,Pakistan. Established in June 1951 by an act of Parliament and as a successor to the University of Sindh,the university is a "Sindh Government University" and designed by Mohsin Baig as its chief architect.
Henry Tzu-Yow Yang is a Taiwanese-American mechanical engineer,university administrator,and the fifth and current chancellor of the University of California,Santa Barbara,a post he has held since 1994.
Andrew Phang Boon LeongPJG is a Singaporean judge in the Supreme Court,currently sitting as a Senior Judge.
Konkuk University is a South Korean private university founded in 1931 and it is one of the top universities in South Korea. The university was founded based on three virtues:sincerity,fidelity,and righteousness.
Hilde Heynen is professor of architectural theory at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She researches modernism,modernity,and gender in architecture. Heynen is the author of several books and publishes regularly in architectural journals such as the Harvard Design Magazine,The Journal of Architecture,and The Architectural Review of which she is a member of the editorial board. She is also a board member of the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) and the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH).
Bernadette Gray-Little is a retired academic administrator most recently serving as the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas,where she was the first African-American and female to serve as the chancellor. She oversaw the university's main campus in Lawrence,its medical center campuses in Kansas City,Salina and Wichita,the Edwards Campus in Overland Park,and other facilities around Kansas. She replaced chancellor Robert Hemenway in August 2009,and retired in June 2017.
The University of Kansas School of Medicine is a public medical school located on the University of Kansas Medical Center campuses in Kansas City,Kansas,and also Salina,Kansas,and Wichita,Kansas. The Kansas City campus is co-located with the independent University of Kansas Health System,and they are commonly known collectively as KU Med.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium. Founded in 1425,it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
Tan Tai Yong is a Singaporean academic who is the current President of Singapore University of Social Sciences. He served as the President of Yale-NUS College from 2017 to 2022. He is also Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies,an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS. He was a former Nominated Member of Parliament and served from 2014 to 2015.
Yale-NUS College is a liberal arts college in Singapore. Established in 2011 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore,it is the first liberal arts college in Singapore and one of the first few in Asia. With an average acceptance rate of 5.2%,it is among the most selective institutions in the world. Yale-NUS was the first institution outside New Haven,Connecticut that Yale University had developed in its 300-year history,making Yale one of the first American Ivy League schools to establish a college bearing its name in Asia.
Rakesh "Raj" Kumar Bhala is an Indian-American author,lawyer and professor,prominent in the fields of International trade law,Islamic Law (Sharia),and law and literature. He is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Law where he is the inaugural Leo S. Brenneisen Distinguished Professor of Law. Previously he had served as the university's Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law (2011–2017). He is the author of leading textbooks in international trade law,among others,and of a periodic column on international law,titled "On Point," that was published by BloombergQuint (India) from January 2017 through October 2022. In June 2020,Ingram's Magazine named him as one of "50 Kansans You Should Know." He is a member of the U.S. State Department Speaker Program.
The Danforth Chapel Program was funded by the Danforth Foundation,an organization created in 1927 by William H. Danforth,founder of the Ralston Purina Company,and his wife. The Danforth Foundation focused on national education philanthropy:providing scholarships to college students,supporting projects to revitalize the city of St. Louis,and funding the Danforth Chapels. The Danforth Foundation closed in 2011 with a gift of $70M to the Donald Danforth Plant Center,a research center that focuses on solving world hunger.
Nancy K. MacLean is an American historian. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. MacLean's research focuses on race,gender,labor history and social movements in 20th-century U.S. history,with particular attention to the U.S. South.
Edward Charles Holmes is a British evolutionary biologist and virologist. Since 2012,he has been a fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in Australia and professor at the University of Sydney. He was an honorary visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai,China,from 2019-2021.
