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1 day ago · John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. [3] He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist.
1 day ago · Louis Dembitz Brandeis ( / ˈbrændaɪs /; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
1 hour ago · University of Pennsylvania. / 39.95; -75.19. The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn [11] and sometimes UPenn, [12] is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the ...
1 day ago · A massive open online course ( MOOC / muːk /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [1] In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to ...
1 day ago · General George C. Marshall, the 50th U.S. Secretary of State. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023) in economic recovery programs to Western European ...
1 day ago · Roderick James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSGS FRSL (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British academic, broadcaster, and former diplomat and politician.He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 2010 to 2019 and was a junior minister in four government departments from 2015 to 2019, before serving as Secretary of State for International ...
1 day ago · Jack Nusan Porter (Ph.D. 1971), sociologist; former Research Associate in Ukrainian Studies, Harvard University; former assistant professor in Social Science, Boston University; Lyman W. Porter (B.A. 1952), dean of University of California, Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business 1972–1983
