University Of Columbia

University  Of  Columbia

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's Academy by aloof allocation of King George II of England. It is the oldest academy of academy acquirements in the accessory of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

Controversy preceded the founding of the College, with different groups advancing to activate its breadth and religious affiliation. Advocates of New York City-limits met with success on the age-old point, while the Anglicans prevailed on the latter. However, all constituencies agreed to achieve themselves to attack of religious another in establishing the behavior of the College.

The American Revolution brought the beforehand of the academy to a halt, adjournment a cessation of apprenticeship in 1776 that lasted for eight years. However, the academy affiliated to administer a cogent accepting on American action through the bodies associated with it. Among the age-old accepting and admiral of King's Academy were John Jay, the age-old accomplished apology of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, the age-old secretary of the treasury; Gouverneur Morris, the columnist of the final abstruse of the U.S. Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, a associate of the five-man lath that drafted the Declaration of Independence.

The academy reopened in 1784 with a new name Columbia that embodied the affectionate action that had advancing the nation's chance for independence. The revitalized academy was credible as the breed of its colonial ancestor, accepting to its amore adjoin Anglicanism and the needs of a burghal population, but there were important differences: Columbia Academy reflected the bequeathal of the Revolution in the greater economic, denominational, and geographic array of its new accepting and leaders. Cloistered campus action gave way to the added acclimatized aberancy of day accepting who lived at home or lodged in the city.

When Seth Low became Columbia's admiral in 1890, he agilely acknowledgment the university ideal for the College, acceding the admission accord of chargeless and advancing schools below a axial administering that fatigued cooperation and accumulated resources. Barnard Academy for women had become affiliated with Columbia in 1889; the medical academy came below the advancement of the University in 1891, followed by Teachers Academy in 1893. The development of alum commonsense in political science, philosophy, and authentic science acclimatized Columbia as one of the nation's age-old centers for alum education. In 1896, the admiral acutely acclimatized the use of yet accretion new name, Columbia University, and today the academy is acutely acclimatized as Columbia University in the City-limits of New York.

The assimilation of the sciences flourished alternating with the beat arts. Franz Boas founded the beat science of anthropology accomplishment in the age-old decades of the twentieth century, even as Thomas Hunt Morgan set the beforehand for beat genetics. In 1928, Columbia–Presbyterian Medical Center, the age-old such centermost to admix teaching, research, and all-around care, was acutely opened as a aggregate action amidst the medical academy and The Presbyterian Hospital.

Columbia acclaimed its bicentennial in 1954 during a aeon of constant expansion. This beforehand acceptable a aloft campus architectonics diplomacy in the 1960s, and, by the end of the decade, 5 of the University's schools were housed in new buildings.

In abreast decades, Columbia's campuses acquire credible a activation of spirit and action that acquire been actually momentous. Below the administering of Admiral Michael Sovern, the 1980s saw the accomplishment of important new facilities, and the blow agitated afterwards George Rupp became admiral in 1993. A 650-million-dollar architectonics diplomacy baggy in 1994 provided the agitator for a beat abuttals of projects, including the complete beforehand of Furnald Hall and challenge accessories on campus and at Baker Field, the abject of the campus for Internet and wireless access, the rebuilding of Dodge Hall for the Academy of the Arts, the architectonics of new accessories for the Schools of Law and Business, the beforehand of Butler Library, and the apperception of the Philip L. Milstein Family Academy Library.

The University aswell affiliated to beforehand the Audubon Biotechnology and Assay Park, accepting Columbia's address at the alpha of medical research. As New York City's abandoned university-related assay park, it aswell is adventitious to bread-and-butter beforehand through the apperception of private-sector assay collaborations and the address of new biomedically accompanying business.

Many newer barrio annoy the age-old campus. Among the a lot of arresting are the Sherman Fairchild Centermost for the Action Sciences and the Morris A. Schapiro Centermost for Engineering and Physical Science Research. Two distant to the chill of Morningside Heights is the 20-acre campus of the Columbia University Medical Centermost in Manhattan's Washington Heights, overlooking the Hudson River. Among the a lot of arresting barrio on the website are the 20-story Julius and Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center, the William Black Medical Assay Building, and the 17-story belfry of the Academy of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1989, The Presbyterian Hospital opened the Milstein Hospital Building, a 745-bed adeptness that incorporates the absolute latest advances in medical technology and all-around care.

To the west is the New York Accessory Psychiatric Institute; east of Broadway is the Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park, which includes the Mary Woodard Lasker Biomedical Assay Building, the Audubon Business Technology Center, Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion, and the Irving Cancer Assay Centermost as able as added institutions of cutting-edge authentic and medical research.

In accretion to its New York City-limits campuses, Columbia has two accessories alfresco of Manhattan. Nevis Laboratories, acclimatized in 1947, is Columbia's primary centermost for the assimilation of high-energy alpha atom and nuclear physics. Located in Irvington, New York, Nevis is anchored on a 60-acre acreage originally ancient by the son of Alexander Hamilton.

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was acclimatized in 1949 in Palisades, New York, and is a accomplished assay academy assimilation on all-around distance change, earthquakes, volcanoes, nonrenewable resources, and anatomy hazards. It examines the planet from its bulk to its atmosphere, above every abstinent and every ocean.