Academy
An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.
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... Woese was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984, was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, received the Leeuwenhoek Medal (microbiology's highest honor) in 1992 ... in Microbiology in 1995 from the National Academy of Sciences, and was a National Medal of Science recipient in 2000 ... In 2003, he received the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ...
... Kerala Sahitya Akademi or Academy for Malayalam literature is an autonomous body established to promote Malayalam language and literature ... The academy was inaugurated on October 15, 1956, by Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the former king of Travancore, in Thiruvananthapuram ... government provides the funding and support for the academy, the administration of the academy is autonomous according to its constitution ...
... In 1968, Zöller was appointed professor at the Hamburg Music Academy, and later he taught at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and at the Hamburg Music Academy ... Roswitha Staege became professor of flute at the Berlin Arts Academy Wolfgang Ritter became solo flautist with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra Maren ...
... Colbert founded the Academy of Sciences (now part of the Institut de France), the Paris Observatory, which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712 ... He reorganised the Academy of Painting and Sculpture which Mazarin had established ...
... The Academy Award for Best Costume Design was first given out at the 21st Academy Awards, held on March 24, 1949 ... At the 30th Academy Awards, held on March 26, 1958, these two subcategories were merged into one, which was the result of the Academy reducing the number of ... The 32nd Academy Awards saw the category again be split into two for recognition of both Black and white and color film ...
More definitions of "academy":
- (noun): An institution for the advancement of art or science or literature.
Synonyms: honorary society
- (noun): A school for special training.
- (noun): A secondary school (usually private).
Famous quotes containing the word academy:
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike—and I don’t think there really is a distinction between the two—are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)
“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)