Senin, 29 Juni 2015
Pennsylvania State University
We have been known that United States has so many famous University. And now I want to let you know about one of the largest universities in US, it is Pennsylvania State University.
Pennsylvania State University commonly called as PSU was established in 1855. It located in the University Park, Pennsylvania, United states. This University had several names before it became Pennsylvania State University. In 1855-1862,it was known as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1862–1874, and Pennsylvania State College 1874–1953. This university offers more than 160 majors in all the campuses. Therefore , it is not surprising that this university has totals more than 45,000 graduate and undergraduates students and it makes this university become one of the largest universities in the United States.
If about its athletics, the athletic department fields twenty-nine varsity teams in NCAA Division I,such as baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling.
Every University has some traditions including this university. One of the traditions of this university is the Nittany Lion Inn offers visitors a spirited and historic location with all the comforts of the northeast.
Sports facilities include Beaver Stadium, which has capacity of 107,282 seats, a multipurpose building, golf courses, baseball and softball fields, a tennis center, and a center for basketball. (The Jordan Center also hosts entertainment and other activities.) The University also has a sports museum with 10,000 square feet.
The university which has motto "making life better" has so many achievements. And you can see the awesome facts above. That is why it is considered as one of the most popular university in the world.
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| The Symbol of Pennsylvania State University |
This university provides seven student housing complexes located in University park campus. They are East Halls, North Halls, Pollock Halls, South Halls, West Halls, Eastview Terrace, and Nittany Apartments. Each complex consists of some separate buildings like dormitories and a commons building, which has lounges, the help desk for the complex, mailboxes for each dormitory room, a small food shop, and a cafeteria-style room.
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| One of the Residence Hall in Pennsylvania University |
Beside that, PSU also provide The Pennsylvania State University Libraries. They were ranked 14th among research libraries in North America in the 2003–2004. The university's library system began with a 1,500-book library in Old Main. Its holdings had grown to 5.2 million volumes, in addition to 500,000 maps, five million microforms, and 180,000 films and videos in 2009. The library also offers electronic catalogs and online databases, in additional to physical volumes stored on site.
PSU manages 864 student organizations in university park campus in 2004. It has the additional organizations such as Thespians, Blue Band, Chabad, Glee Club, Aish HaTorah, Late Night, and 3D Printer Club.
PSU also has a few of student media which provides te student a place to deliver their inspiration. They are :
1.The Daily Collegian, a student run newspaper which is published every weekday while classes are in session. It also has an online edition, known as The Digital Collegian.
2.Onward State, a student-run independent news website covering the Penn State community. It was founded in November 2008 by Davis Shaver, Evan Kalikow, and Eli Glazier.
3.La Vie (the Life), the university's annual student yearbook, since 1890, it has been in production documenting student life continuously. In 1987,La Vie which edited by David Beagin, won a College Gold Crown for Yearbooks award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
4.The student-run radio station is The LION 90.7 F.M (WKPS-FM). It was founded in 1995 The LION broadcasts from the ground floor of the HUB–Robeson Center, serving the Penn State and State College communities with alternative music and talk programming, including live coverage of home Penn State football games.
5.ComRadio that operates by Penn State University of Communications. It was founded in the spring of 2003 as an internet-based audio laboratory and co-curricular training environment for aspiring student broadcasters. In recent years, ComRadio broadcasters have won numerous state awards for their on-air work
6.Phroth is the student-run humor magazine, which publishes two to four issues each year.
7.Kalliope is an undergraduate literary magazine produced by students and sponsored by the university's English Department. Kalliopeincludes works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
8.The student-run life and style magazine is Valley.
6.Phroth is the student-run humor magazine, which publishes two to four issues each year.
7.Kalliope is an undergraduate literary magazine produced by students and sponsored by the university's English Department. Kalliopeincludes works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
8.The student-run life and style magazine is Valley.
If about its athletics, the athletic department fields twenty-nine varsity teams in NCAA Division I,such as baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling.
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| The volleyball team of PSU |
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| The Basketball team of PSU |
Every University has some traditions including this university. One of the traditions of this university is the Nittany Lion Inn offers visitors a spirited and historic location with all the comforts of the northeast.
Sports facilities include Beaver Stadium, which has capacity of 107,282 seats, a multipurpose building, golf courses, baseball and softball fields, a tennis center, and a center for basketball. (The Jordan Center also hosts entertainment and other activities.) The University also has a sports museum with 10,000 square feet.
The university which has motto "making life better" has so many achievements. And you can see the awesome facts above. That is why it is considered as one of the most popular university in the world.
Posting by Ana Stevani
Jumat, 26 Juni 2015
Carnegie Mellon University
The University that has a motto "My heart is in the work" is a private research institution that was founded in 1900. Yep,Carnegie Mellon University. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the College of Engineering,College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, H. John Heinz III College and the School of Computer Science.
Carnegie Mellon's main campus is three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and theSquirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods. It owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon also has a branch campus in the Middle East, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, which offers a full undergraduate curriculum with degree programs in computer science, business administration, biology, computational biology, and information systems also has graduate-level extension campuses in Mountain View, California.
These university libraries include Hunt Library, the Roger Sorrells Engineering & Science Library, the Mellon Institute Library, the Posner Center, and the Qatar Library. A research division of CMU has a significant research library and art holdings on the 5th floor of Hunt Library.
About the student life,Carnegie Mellon's student life includes over 225 student organizations, art galleries, and various unique traditions. Student organizations provide social, service, media, academic, spiritual, recreational, sport, religious, political, cultural, and governance.
This university also has several traditions such as :
1. The Fence, painting a single bridge which connected Margaret Morrison Women's College with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The fence can then be painted by the group that has it, but only between midnight and 6 am. Only hand brushes may be used; the use of spray paint or paint rollers is considered vandalism and results in a fine. Today the fence is considered "the world's most painted object," by the Guinness Book of World Records.
2. Spring Carnival. Held in April, Spring Carnival is the biggest event of the school year. The Spring Carnival features the "Buggy Sweepstakes" and "Booth" (a competition between various organizations to build small, elaborate booths based on a theme chosen each year).
3. Buggy Races. Buggy, officially called Sweepstakes, is a race around Schenley Park
4. Mobot. A portmanteau for "mobile robot," is an annual competition at Carnegie Mellon that first held in 1994. In this event, robots try (autonomously) to pass through gates, in order, and reach the finish line.
5. Bagpipers. Carnegie Mellon University's Pipes and Drums features the sounds of Scottish bagpipes and performs at University events.
6. The Kiltie Band.
7. Autographing the Green Room
The housing of MCU provide 20 residential buildings on campus and five off campus in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. It offers conventional housing for its students through single-gender, coeducational, and special interest options. Students can choose from standard, prime, or suite-style rooms, efficiencies, one or two bedroom apartments, and houses. First year students are required to live on campus.
Carnegie Mellon University have produced more than 92,000 alumni. Alumni include 19 Nobel Laureates, 13 Members of NAS, 50 Members of NAE, 98 Emmy Award Recipients, 7 Academy Award Recipients, 41 Tony Awards Recipients, and 12 Turing Awards Recipients.
This University has been produced so many noticeable people. That is why this university is one of the famous university.
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Carnegie Mellon has seven colleges and independent schools: the College of Engineering,College of Fine Arts, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science, Tepper School of Business, H. John Heinz III College and the School of Computer Science.
Carnegie Mellon's main campus is three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and theSquirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods. It owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon also has a branch campus in the Middle East, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, which offers a full undergraduate curriculum with degree programs in computer science, business administration, biology, computational biology, and information systems also has graduate-level extension campuses in Mountain View, California.
These university libraries include Hunt Library, the Roger Sorrells Engineering & Science Library, the Mellon Institute Library, the Posner Center, and the Qatar Library. A research division of CMU has a significant research library and art holdings on the 5th floor of Hunt Library.
About the student life,Carnegie Mellon's student life includes over 225 student organizations, art galleries, and various unique traditions. Student organizations provide social, service, media, academic, spiritual, recreational, sport, religious, political, cultural, and governance.
This university also has several traditions such as :
1. The Fence, painting a single bridge which connected Margaret Morrison Women's College with the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The fence can then be painted by the group that has it, but only between midnight and 6 am. Only hand brushes may be used; the use of spray paint or paint rollers is considered vandalism and results in a fine. Today the fence is considered "the world's most painted object," by the Guinness Book of World Records.
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| The Fence |
3. Buggy Races. Buggy, officially called Sweepstakes, is a race around Schenley Park
4. Mobot. A portmanteau for "mobile robot," is an annual competition at Carnegie Mellon that first held in 1994. In this event, robots try (autonomously) to pass through gates, in order, and reach the finish line.
5. Bagpipers. Carnegie Mellon University's Pipes and Drums features the sounds of Scottish bagpipes and performs at University events.
6. The Kiltie Band.
7. Autographing the Green Room
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| One of The MCU housing |
Carnegie Mellon University have produced more than 92,000 alumni. Alumni include 19 Nobel Laureates, 13 Members of NAS, 50 Members of NAE, 98 Emmy Award Recipients, 7 Academy Award Recipients, 41 Tony Awards Recipients, and 12 Turing Awards Recipients.
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| The symbol of Carnegie Mellon University |
Posting by Ana Stevani
Kamis, 25 Juni 2015
Purdue University
This time I want to let you know about some information of Purdue University.
The University which established in 1869,located in West lafayette, Indiana, United States. It started its first class on September 16,1874 with six instructors and 39 students,but now it organized into 10 colleges and school. The University is divided into west campus and south campus. The south campus includes the Krannert School of Management, Horticulture Gardens, Discovery Park, Lyles Porter Hall and the Purdue Airport,while the west campus consists of student housing, dining, and recreation facilities.
Purdue university also provide the library. Purdue's library system consists of fifteen locations throughout the campus, including an archives and special collections research center, an undergraduate library, and several subject-specific libraries. More than three million volumes, including one million electronic books, are held at these locations.
Like the other universities,Purdue University also provide the Student's residences. Purdue University operates fifteen separate residence halls for its undergraduate and graduate students.
Then, There are 12 cooperative houses at Purdue (5 men's houses and 7 women's houses). The men's houses include Circle Pines, Fairway, Marwood, Chauncey, and Gemini. The women's houses include Ann Tweedale, Glenwood, Twin Pines, Maclure, Stewart, Devonshire, and Shoemaker.
Students at Purdue participate in more than 900 student organizations that cover a variety of interests. Purdue University also has annual campus events include Boiler Gold Rush, Spring Fest, and Grand Prix.
To express the student's opinion,Purdue University provide many media, such as :
1. The Purdue Exponent, an independent student newspaper. From 1889 to 2008 Purdue published a yearbook called the Debris.
2. . WBAA, a radio station owned by Purdue University. The station operates on the AM frequency of 920 kHz and FM frequency of 101.3 MHz. WBAA is the longest continuously-operating radio station in Indiana, having been licensed on April 4, 1922.
3. W9YB is the call sign of the Amateur Radio Club at Purdue University. W9YB is the longest standing club on campus and also holds the self declared title of having one of the largest and most active collegiate amateur radio stations in the country.
Purdue University also has football team (The Boilermaker football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision(FBS)) and basketball team (The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big Ten Conference)
Did you know Neil Amstrong? The first astronaut who walk on the moon. He was an alumnus from Purdue University. Purdue University has produced 23 astronauts including Neil Amstrong, Gus Grissom, and Eugene Cernan. In science, Purdue has also produced Nobel Prize–winning physicists in Edward Mills Purcell and Ben Roy Mottelson, as well as Nobel Prize–winning chemist Akira Suzuki.
From those facts,you know guys that Purdue University is a great university. It has produced so many famous people,of course it has a good quality.
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| The Symbol of Purdue University |
Purdue university also provide the library. Purdue's library system consists of fifteen locations throughout the campus, including an archives and special collections research center, an undergraduate library, and several subject-specific libraries. More than three million volumes, including one million electronic books, are held at these locations.
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| Purdue's Library |
Like the other universities,Purdue University also provide the Student's residences. Purdue University operates fifteen separate residence halls for its undergraduate and graduate students.
Then, There are 12 cooperative houses at Purdue (5 men's houses and 7 women's houses). The men's houses include Circle Pines, Fairway, Marwood, Chauncey, and Gemini. The women's houses include Ann Tweedale, Glenwood, Twin Pines, Maclure, Stewart, Devonshire, and Shoemaker.
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| Purdue Student Housing |
To express the student's opinion,Purdue University provide many media, such as :
1. The Purdue Exponent, an independent student newspaper. From 1889 to 2008 Purdue published a yearbook called the Debris.
2. . WBAA, a radio station owned by Purdue University. The station operates on the AM frequency of 920 kHz and FM frequency of 101.3 MHz. WBAA is the longest continuously-operating radio station in Indiana, having been licensed on April 4, 1922.
3. W9YB is the call sign of the Amateur Radio Club at Purdue University. W9YB is the longest standing club on campus and also holds the self declared title of having one of the largest and most active collegiate amateur radio stations in the country.
Purdue University also has football team (The Boilermaker football team represents Purdue University in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision(FBS)) and basketball team (The Purdue Boilermakers basketball team competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the Big Ten Conference)
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| Mackey Arena for Purdue's basketball team |
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| Ross-Ade Stadium for Purdue's Footbal team |
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| Neil Amstrong was one of the Alumni of Purdue University |
Posting by : Ana Stevani
Minggu, 21 Juni 2015
The University of Texas at Austin
From looking
at the picture below. Probably you know what I want to tell you. This time,I
want to tell you about The University of Texas at Austin. The motto of this University is “Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy”
The University of Texas at Austin which usually called UT Austin was established on September 15,1883. University of Texas, Austin is one of the largest public universities in the United States and the largest institution in the University of Texas System. It offers 100 majors in 17 different colleges and schools, with well-regarded programs in engineering, education, pharmacy, business and law, among other areas. It has top-ranked programs in accounting, engineering, and communication studies.
And next,lets talk about campus. The UT Austin has the main campus in central Austin and J.J. Pickle Research Campus in north Austin and the other properties out of Texas. The UT Austin main campus has 150 buildings. The main building is in the middle of campus.
The UT Austin provides several facilities. Lets find out them one by one.
First, this university has seven museums and seventeen libraries. The librariess hold over nine million volumes, making it the seventh-largest academic library in the country. And one of the museums,The Blanton museum of Art, is the largest university art museum in the United States and hosts approximately 17,000 works from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
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| The symbol of The University of Texas at Austin |
And next,lets talk about campus. The UT Austin has the main campus in central Austin and J.J. Pickle Research Campus in north Austin and the other properties out of Texas. The UT Austin main campus has 150 buildings. The main building is in the middle of campus.
The UT Austin provides several facilities. Lets find out them one by one.
First, this university has seven museums and seventeen libraries. The librariess hold over nine million volumes, making it the seventh-largest academic library in the country. And one of the museums,The Blanton museum of Art, is the largest university art museum in the United States and hosts approximately 17,000 works from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
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| Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum |
The UT Austin also uses Capital metro to
provide the student bus transportation around the campus and throughout Austin.
Beside bus transpotation,UT Austin also provide fourteen residence halls,the newest was opened for residence in Spring 2007. On-campus housing can hold more than 7,100 students. Jester Center is the largest residence hall with its capacity of 2,945. Because of the limited capacity of the On-campus housing,most of the students must live in private residence halls, housing cooperatives, apartments, or with Greek organizations and other off-campus residences.
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| The University Student's Residences |
This awesome Universtity also has several organizations. The university recognizes more than 1,000 student organizations. It supports three official student governance organizations that represent student interests to faculty, administrators, and the Texas Legislature such as, first, Student Government, established in 1902, is the oldest governance organization and represents student interests in general. Second,The Senate of College Councils represents students in academic affairs and coordinates the college councils. Third,Graduate Student Assembly represents graduate student interests.Fourth,The University Unions Student Events Center serves as the hub for student activities on campus.Fifth, The Friar Society serves as the oldest honor society at the university. Sixth, The Livestrong Texas 4000 for Cancer student organization is the longest annual charity bicycle ride in the world and has raised over $4 million for cancer research from its founding in 2004 to August, 2013.
To express the student’s opinions,The UT Austin provide Texas student media like Study Breaks Magazine, Longhorn Life, The Daily Texan, and the Texas Travesty. Over the airwaves students' voices are heard through Texas Student Television (K29HW-D) and KVRX Radio.
The Computer Writing and Research Lab of the university's Department of Rhetoric and Writing also hosts the Blogora, a blog for "connecting rhetoric, rhetorical methods and theories, and rhetoricians with public life" by the Rhetoric Society of America.
The university also operates two public radio stations, KUT with news and information, and KUTX with music, via local FM broadcasts as well as live streaming audio over the Internet.
And the last is the tradition of he UT Austin. At athletic events, students usually sing "Texas Fight",the university's fight song while displayingthe Hook 'em Horns hand gesture ( The gesture mimicking the horns of the school's and mascot, Bevo the Texas longhorn.
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| The Texas Longhorn is the University's mascot |
This is so amazing University,right? Not only in academics but also in other activities such as charity,student media,and many more.
Posting by : Ana Stevani
Washington University in Saint Louis
One of the most popular university in the world is Washington University. If you want to know,stay in this blog :)
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| The Washington University |
Wash U is a private research University which located in St.Louis,Missouri,United states. This University was established on February 22, 1853 with size 169 acres. It has a total enrollment of 7,336. Although the address of Wash U is in St.Louis but the majority of the school’s main campus is located in unincorporated St.Louis county and suburban clayton.
Wash U has 14 libraries and it was the largest library system in the state of missouri which containing over 4.2 million volumes.
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| Library in The Washington University |
Beside the library,Wash U also has a museum named Mildred Lane Kemper Art museum. This museum was established in 1881 which is one of the oldest teaching museum in the country. In 2006,the Kemper Art Museum moved to Steinberg hall.
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| The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum |
About student residences,the Washington university provides residences for its students. Over 50 % undergraduate students live on campus. Most of the residence halls on campus are located on the south 40. It has that name because its location was on the south side of the danforth campusand its size of 40 acres (160.000 m2). It is the location of the freshmen building. In Washington University,the freshmen are require to live on campus in their first year. After that they can choose to still live on campus houses or live off-campus apartments or houses. Another location residences of Washington University is called the village. It is located in the northwest corner of Danforth University. But,this residence just open to upperclassmen.
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| The South 40 |
When we talk about the student media,Wash University has four major student media outlets,such as:
1. The university's student newspaper called Student Life
2. KWUR (90.3 FM) serves as the students' official radio station
3. WUTV is the university's television channel.
4. The university's main student-run political publication is the Washington University Political Review which called WUPR
Every University has their own traditions,include Wash University. Several tradition which are famous such as :
1. WILD (walk in lay down). It is one of the biggest even on campus which establish in 1973. Held at the beginning of the fall semester and the end of the spring semester.why The concert is named for an old tradition in which students would bring sofas into the quad and lie on them while watching the performances.
2. Bauhaus is an Annual Halloween costume party sponsored by the Architecture School Council, held in a large tent in front of Givens Hall.
3. Thurtene Carnival is The oldest and largest student-run carnival in the nation.
4. Cultural shows is an event where Washington University student groups put on several multicultural shows. Washington University held this event every year.
And the last,we want to let you know the motto and symbol of this University. The motto of this University is "Strength through truth" and about the symbol of this University,you can see the picture below.
So do you interest with this University? This is a great University guys. Washington University in St. Louis is committed to providing a great university experience filled with knowledge, discoveries and service. Through more than 90 programs and 1,500 courses, It can help you develop intellectually, personally and professionally.
And the last,we want to let you know the motto and symbol of this University. The motto of this University is "Strength through truth" and about the symbol of this University,you can see the picture below.
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| the symbol of Washington University |
Posting by : Ana Stevani
