Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia does not have a research department, it has a research corporation. A not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of the State of West Virginia, the Marshall University Research Corporation delivers professional services to members of the university research community Marshal was founded in 1837 and named after John Marshall, the fourth chief…
Here on week forty seven of this grand research project, as I’m studying the research going on at the University of Washington in Seattle, I find out about an important aspect about the research that goes on around the country. It’s called “dual use research” and here is how it is described by the US…
There are two opportunities to hear from former atheists in our area this weekend. Friday evening, musician and former atheist Chris Dreisbach will share his music and faith story at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Owatonna and the following morning, at Peace Lutheran Church in Faribault, Rev. Donavon Riley will talk about his journey from atheist…
Where do you look for inspiration? It appears that more and more scientists are looking to the wonders of nature for inspiration. A quick search online shows that centers for biologically-inspired research can be found from Georgia to California to London to the subject of this week’s research report, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,…
This is a close up of a bud on the fig tree in the backyard. Soon, more buds will sprout……more leaves will fill the branches. Then the fruit will come and grow and ripen. That’s the expectation. That’s what’s supposed to happen. But what if it doesn’t. ? Even so……….. 17 Though the fig tree does…
On the shores of Lake Champlain sits Vermont’s flagship institution of higher learning, the University of Vermont, which was founded in 1791 in Burlington. One would think the initials for the University of Vermont would be UV but instead the school goes by the initials UVM, which stands for Universitas Viridis Montis, Latin for “University of…
This week we feature Provo, Utah’s Brigham Young University, another major university that has remained true to its original religious roots. The school remains dedicated to the following approach to education: “you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the Spirit of God.” Instead of having a plain old research…
At 35 weeks of pregnancy, I’ve gotten used to feeling the movements of the little guy growing inside me. As early as 14 weeks, I felt little flutters and shifts, usually when I was laying on … Source: Catching the Sunrise
Many of our nation’s elite private universities were started by the only educated people in the community, the clergy, and the denominations that they were members of. But eventually most of these universities became independent of the Christian denominations that founded them. That is not the case with Baylor University in Waco, Texas, the oldest…
It was a pastor, Rev. Holland N. McTyeire, who convinced Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history, to provide the funds needed to establish Vanderbilt University in 1873. McTyeire chose the site for the campus in Nashville, Tennessee, supervised the construction of buildings and personally planted many of the trees that today make Vanderbilt…
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