#Education
4 entries tagged Education.
People (1)
- Marcus Foster First African-American superintendent of Oakland's public schools, assassinated by the Symbionese Liberation Army on November 6, 1973, with cyanide-tipped hollow-point bullets in an attack that bore the hallmarks of an intelligence operation.
Organizations (3)
- Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program.
- Thiel Fellowship The Thiel Fellowship is a program of the Thiel Foundation, founded in 2010 by Peter Thiel, that awards 250,000 dollars over two years to people aged 22 or younger on the condition that they skip or stop out of college to pursue a venture, and whose alumni include Vitalik Buterin and other founders who entered the Thiel commercial network through the program.
- University of San Cristobal The University of San Cristobal de Huamanga in Ayacucho, Peru, was where Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman Reynoso taught philosophy and where Ari Ben-Menashe used a faculty appointment as cover for an Israeli intelligence mission.