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Biography: Mark Pierce
No full textBiography of
Mark Pierce,
Extension Associate,
Department of Design and Environmental Analysis
Correspondence regarding death of Grace W. Pierce-Beck
No full textThis is a print-out of e-mail correspondence from Mark Martell, President of the Delaware Audubon Society, reminiscing on the life and accomplishments of Grace W. Pierce-Beck
Jessica Pierce: The Last Walk: Caring for Our Animal Companions
No full textBioethicist and author Jessica Pierce will discuss end-of-life care, dying, and euthanasia in the lives of our companion animals.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/humanitiescenter_authenticity1314/1003/thumbnail.jp
Interview with John Robinson Pierce
No full textAn interview in three sessions in April 1979 with John R. Pierce, often referred to as the father of the communications satellite. A leading applied physicist, Pierce went to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1936 after receiving his PhD in electrical engineering from Caltech. He spent the next thirty-five years there, where he made important contributions to the development of the traveling-wave tube and the reflex klystron, rising to become executive director of Bell's Research-Communications Principles Division. Pierce was also a pioneer in communications satellites, playing a key role in the development of two of the earliest, Echo and Telstar. In this interview he recalls his undergraduate education at Caltech in the late twenties and early thirties, the early years at Bell, radar work during the war, and the beginnings of America's satellite program.
Pierce was also a prolific author of science fiction, sometimes under the pen name J. J. Coupling. In the mid-1960s, he served on the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). He retired from Bell Labs in 1971 and returned to Caltech as a professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and he comments on the changes (and the similarities) he found in undergraduate education at Caltech. While at Bell, Pierce developed a lifelong interest in computer-generated music and psychoacoustics, the science of consonance and dissonance; in the latter part of the interview, he discusses his work with Max Mathews on music synthesis. A year after this interview was conducted, he became professor emeritus at Caltech, and in 1983 he joined Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a visiting professor. Pierce died on April 2, 2002, in Mountain View, California
Lemoine DeLeaver Pierce Papers
No full textThis collection of personal papers provides insight about Lemoine A. DeLeaver Pierce, Professor of Legal Studies and cultural historian. Pierce is a teacher whose commitment to life long learning stems from a continuing need to supplement her formal education, and a long standing family commitment to education. Professor Pierce has taught at: Kennesaw State University, the Keller Graduate School of Management, Morris Brown College, Clark Atlanta University, and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. The collection is rich in family history and documents Pierce's professional career and multidisciplinary interests in law, world cultures and art history.
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Historic tree at Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, ca.1888
No full textPhotograph of the historic tree at Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo) in Monterey, ca.1888. The tree stands at center, growing from the slope of a hill that feeds into the dry ravine at left. In the background left, the gaurd rail of a bridge can be seen.; "Viscaino hung bell on this tree and held mass in 1602 and Father Juniper Serra utilized it for the same purpose June 3, 1770 when he first landed to establish a mission for Saint Charles. [Also the boat was tied here.] The tree fell early in 1900 and the trunk was removed to the garden at rear of San Carlos Mission in Monterey. Photo made by a Mr. Adams [a photographer of Monterey about 1890] abt. 1880 and [negative] purchased from him about 1895 by C.C. Pierce". -- Unknown author
Our Lady of the Woodland: The Church that Pierce Built
No full textOur Lady of the Woodland Catholic Church in Pierce, Idaho now sits shuttered. No longer do faithful parishioners sit in its pews, instead it rests quietly among the timber surrounding Pierce. Our Lady of the Woodland was a church built by a community, through the organization of a single Priest. Its facade, unlike other catholic churches of its age, is but one clue that this particular church is unique. It stands now as relic of all those faithful who helped to build it, move it, and care for it. Our Lady of the Woodland Catholic Church is not only a house of God, but a fixture in the life stories of many.Thesis (M.A., Anthropology) -- University of Idaho, 201
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