Universities around the World

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  1. 2. A _ State University professor has created a transparent solar panel that can be used in building to potentially power the entire building. It can also be retrofitted to older glass buildings to still harness power.
  2. 6. There is a cat who visits the University of _ in Germany every day to offer cuddles to stressed out students. The cat’s owner lives nearby and doesn’t mind her daily excursions, and the students call her Sammy, the Campus Cat.
  3. 8. In 1861, the entire student body of the University of _ enlisted in the Confederate Army as a single company. They suffered a 100% casualty rate during the Civil War.
  4. 10. The first-ever webcam was invented at the University of _ to watch a coffee pot in the break room. Now people could see if there was fresh coffee without getting up from their desks.
  5. 12. The Futurama writing staff held three Ph.D.s, seven masters degrees, and cumulatively had more than 50 years at _ University.
  6. 13. A scientist at the University of _, USA, grew a “living ‘brain'”, “a network of 25,000 rat brain cells” that when “connected to an array of 60 electrodes that can interact with a computer” learned to fly a simulated F-22 stealth fighter jet in a range of weather conditions.
  7. 14. There is an airtight room in a University in _ (US), sealed in 1940, to be opened in the year 8113. The “Crypt of Civilization” contains a wealth of artifacts from literary works to everyday items.
  8. 15. An underachieving junior from _ University successfully designed a nuclear bomb for a term paper in 1977. He got an A on the paper, but the FBI took it and classified it.
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  1. 1. When the University of _ polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor.
  2. 3. _ has a university, with 14 staff and 150 students. It is so small because the Government pays for students to have a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America.
  3. 4. Biologists at _ University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin.
  4. 5. After 1250 gallons of mayonnaise went bad at _ State University in 2016, the school’s Sustainability Officer used an anaerobic digester to turn it into energy and power part of the campus.
  5. 7. The University of _ offers a class in Computer Security which is formally called “Defense Against the Dark Arts.”
  6. 9. An art professor at _ University created a single tree that bears 40 different types of fruit after learning that an orchard full of 150-200-year-old native fruit trees was going to be destroyed.
  7. 11. When asked, after 50 years of research, what he knew about the reason people sleep, William Dement, founder of _ University’s Sleep Research Center, answered, “As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is real, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
  8. 16. Ruth Lawrence, a child prodigy, passed the _ University Maths exam at age 10, coming first out of all 530 candidates, she then completed the degree a year early by age 13.