Convocation and Rockypalooza. Aug. 19, Move-In Day for first-year students, is also the day for Convocation, the ceremony for students, faculty and staff that opens the academic year, followed by an all-campus picnic and Rockypalooza. Read More>.
A genetic condition that only affects girls and discovered by Dr. Henry H. Turner, a pioneer endocrinologist, who first described the physical display of Turners disease in 1938. He presented his findings at the 1938 annual meeting of the e Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. It affects 1 in 2500 women. Over his career, Dr. Turner wrote 30 papers and reviews concerning his studies pertaining to endocrinology, which is the study of physiology related to the endocrine glades and hormones. Turner Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that only affects females. It is the result of the absence of a part of all of a second chromosome in some or all cells and occurs at or shortly after conception. The normal number of chromosomes is 46, two of which determine gender.
Cinematic pioneer Edward Turner is credited with making the worldâs first ever color films in 1901 and 1902. A British museum has found the world's first-ever color movie-a whopping 110 years after it was made.tunning clips of the worldâs first color movies were unveiled Wednesday by the UKâs National Media Museum, which just found the films, shot in 1901-1902 by Edward Turner, a British photographer who invented a complex three-color process previously thought to have been unsuccessful.