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.
The commercially successful Kinemacolor system was patented in 1906 and exhibited three years later. Technicolor followed in 1916. Turnerâs films were acquired in 1937 by the Science Museum as part of the archive of Charles Urban, a cinema pioneer who funded Turnerâs experiments.