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How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until ...
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Who Was Jackie Oppenheimer? Emma Dummont's Character Explained
Emma Dumont had a brief role playing Jackie, sister-in-law to J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s landmark, award ...
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Trump administration revokes student visas from U. of C., Northwestern and U. of I.
The state’s top universities, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago ... students on F-1 or J-1 visas and keep track ...
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An Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Los Alamos Lab Where J. Robert Oppenheimer Created the Atomic Bomb
As bulldozers arrived on the New Mexico campus, she had her first glimpse of J. Robert Oppenheimer ... had recently earned his PhD at Princeton University. “The beauty of the scenery ...
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Doomsday Clock is now 89 seconds to midnight, what does that mean?
J Robert Oppenheimer and Eugene Rabinowitch along with University of Chicago scholars. During that time, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. But after the Soviet Union successfully ...
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Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”?
Wikimedia Commons Just over 75 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a famous nuclear experiment beneath the University ... responsibility for that. J. Robert Oppenheimer, certainly, and ...