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Collins. ISBN 0-88730-956-9. Martin S. Schwartz ( Buzzy, born March 23, 1945) [1] is a Wall Street trader who made his fortune successfully trading stocks, futures and options. He received national attention when he won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1984. Schwartz is the author of Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader .
Lynn Margulis (born Lynn Petra Alexander; [1] [2] March 5, 1938 – December 22, 2011) [3] was an American evolutionary biologist, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. Historian Jan Sapp has said that "Lynn Margulis's name is as synonymous with symbiosis as Charles Darwin 's is with evolution." [4]
Notable awards. National Book Award; American Book Award; PEN/Revson Fellowship; Paterson Poetry Prize. Martín Espada (born 1957) is a Puerto Rican-American poet, [1] [2] and a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems.
Amherst College ( / ˈæmərst / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
U.S. President Joe Biden has no plans to abandon giving the commencement address at Morehouse College, a historically Black men's college in Georgia on May 19, White House officials said on Monday ...
Reverend Daniel Bliss 1852, founder and president of American University of Beirut (1866–1902) James Griswold Merrill, president of Fisk University (1901–1908) [1] Francis Amasa Walker 1860, third president of MIT (1881–1897) George Harris 1866, seventh president of Amherst College. William Jacob Holland 1869, fifth Chancellor, University ...
Movement. German Renaissance. Martin Waldseemüller ( c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Latinized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the ...
Carolyn Arthur " Biddy " Martin (born 1951) is an American academic, author, and a former president of Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. [1] Before becoming president at Amherst, she was Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she assumed office on September 1, 2008, succeeding John D. Wiley.