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International House, UC Berkeley
International House at UC Berkeley is a multi-cultural residence and program center serving students, the local community and alumni worldwide. Its mission is to foster intercultural respect, understanding, lifelong friendships and leadership skills for the promotion of a more tolerant and peaceful world.
International House Berkeley was part of a larger "International House movement", founded by Harry Edmonds who, as a young man working for the New York YMCA in 1909, had a chance meeting with a Chinese student. Edmond's casual "good morning" on the steps of the Columbia University library provoked the response: "I've been in New York three weeks, and you are the first person who has spoken to me." Inspired by this experience, Edmonds decided to investigate the situation of foreign students in New York City. With the funding and support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the first International House opened in New York in 1924.
Universidad Católica de Murcia
The Catholic University of Murcia, born of the heart of the Church, initiates its third academic year (1999-2000) - a historic and unprecedented moment for humanity and particularly for the Catholic Church, in coinciding with the beginning of the third millennium. We are confident that this will be providential for our University and for society.
It was in accordance with the words of Pope John Paul II in the Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Eccelesiae of 15th August 1990, in his reminder to Bishops of their responsibility in the promotion of Catholic Universities, and in awareness of the importance of Christian faith in the academic and cultural world of today, in the face of the third millennium, that The University Foundation of San Antonio established the initiative to create and support this Catholic University in Murcia.
In answer to this call, the first Catholic University instigated and founded by secular-people was born, with the consent of the Diocese Bishop, and canonically raised in agreement with article 3.3 of the Apostolic Constitution of Pope John Paul.
UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, UC Berkeley, and Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. UC Berkeley is the oldest of the ten campuses affiliated with the University of California. Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and raduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies 6,651 acres with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres.
The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. By the 1930s, Berkeley had established itself as a premier research university, and today counts sixty-one Nobel Laureates among its faculty, researchers and alumni. Berkeley physicists led and hand-picked the team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II and the hydrogen bomb soon afterwards. The University has managed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the nation's two principal nuclear weapons labs (now also used for more peaceful research) at Livermore, California, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, ever since.
Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford is situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Stanford was founded by railroad magnate and California Governor Leand Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who died of typhoid just before his 16th birthday. The story that a lady in "faded gingham" and a man in a "homespun threadbare suit" went to visit the president of Harvard about making a donation, were rebuffed, and then founded Stanford is untrue.