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A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. A university provides both tertiary and quaternary education. University is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning corporation (since the first medieval European universities were simply groups of scholars).
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is noted for its rigorous undergraduate core curriculum, designed to foster critical skills in a broad range of academic disciplines, including history, literature, science, mathematics, writing, and critical thinking. Conceived as a combination of the American liberal arts college and the German research university, the University of Chicago was also the first to implement the quarter system, which is now used by many colleges and universities around the world.
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- 2005 January 27 - Scientists behind the climateprediction.net project, a distributed computing project run from Oxford University, announce that first results indicate a long term surface temperature increase due to global warming of between 2 and 11 degrees Celsius as a consequence of doubling carbon dioxide levels, with most of the simulations predicting a temperature rise of around 3.4 °C. The results are published in Nature.
- Academia is a general term for the whole of higher education and research. The word comes from the Greek referring to the larger body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. In the 17th century, English and French religious scholars popularized the term to describe certain types of institutions of higher learning.
- Institutions of higher learning considerably older than the most ancient European universities existed in countries such as China, Egypt and India. Some of them are still in operation today. (Example)
- The Academy, founded in 387 BC by the Greek philosopher Plato in the grove of Academos near Athens, taught its students philosophy, mathematics, and gymnastics, and is sometimes considered a forerunner of modern European universities.
- The most famous Ancient Greek "university" was the Museum and Library of Alexandria.
- In the last decades of the 20th century, a number of mega universities have been created, teaching with distance learning techniques.
- Colloquially, the term university is used around the world for a phase in one's life: "when I was at university…"; in the United States, college is often used: "when I was in college…".
- The Times Higher Education Supplement, a British publication, annually publishes the Times Higher World University Rankings, a list of 200 ranked universities from around the world.
- The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and includes major institutes of higher education in all countries of North America, Europe, Asia, Pacific, and Latin America, compared and ranked by multiple numerical criteria, including publications in peer-reviewed journals and Nobel prizes awarded to alumni and staff.
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