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Bakke, Allan

(Encyclopedia)Bakke, Allan: see Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. ...

Evans, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Evans, Mount, peak, 14,260 ft (4,346 m) high, N central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts. At its summit is the Inter-University High Altitude Laboratory. ...

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

(Encyclopedia)John Jay College of Criminal Justice: see New York, City University of. ...

Morrison, Toni

(Encyclopedia)Morrison, Toni, 1931–2019, American writer, b. Lorain, Ohio, as Chloe Ardelia (later Anthony) Wofford; B.A. Howard Univ., 1953, M.F.A. Cornell, 1955. Her fiction is noted for its poetic language, lu...

Rawls, John Bordley

(Encyclopedia)Rawls, John Bordley, 1921–2002, American philosopher and political theorist, b. Baltimore, grad. Princeton (A.B., 1943; Ph.D., 1950). He taught at Princeton (1950–52), Cornell (1953–59), and the...

Evans, Sir Martin John

(Encyclopedia)Evans, Sir Martin John, British geneticist, Ph.D., University College London, 1969. After serving on the faculty at University College London (1966–78) and Cambridge (1978–99), he became a profess...

Erlangen

(Encyclopedia)Erlangen ĕrˈläng-ən [key], city, Bavaria, S Germany, at the confluence of the Schwabach and ...

Lund

(Encyclopedia)Lund lŭnd [key], city (1990 pop. 62,910), Malmöhus co., S Sweden. It is a commercial and industrial center and a rail junction. Manufactures include paper, packaging, printed materials, and clothing...

Young, Iris Marion

(Encyclopedia)Young, Iris Marion, 1949–2006, American philosopher and political theorist, b. New York, Ph.D. Penn State University, 1974. An activist-intellectual, ...

Du Pont, Pete

(Encyclopedia) Du Pont, Pete (Pierre Samuel du Pont IV), 1935-2021, Wilmington, Del, Princeton Univ. (Mech. Engr., 1956); Harvard Law School (J.D., 1963). Du Pont wa...