Insider’s view of oil

by Bill Davenport February 1, 2009

On Wednesday, Feb 4, Dr. Donald Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Petroleum Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston will give an informal tour/talk through the UH’s Blaffer Gallery’s current exhibition, Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry by the Center for Land Use Interpretation. 12 noon

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slint October 10, 2008 - 16:53

Population? number of MFA programs? PhD programs in art history? # of non-profits for visual arts?

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b.s. October 10, 2008 - 20:14

Population; Chicago: 2,836,658 Houston: 2,208,180

MFA Art Programs
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago (1/2 point, 1 year program)
Houston: University of Houston

Not: Northwestern, Texas Southern, Rice, International Academy of Design (CHI), American Academy of Art (CHI), Art Institute of Houston, Westwood College (CHI HOU), Roosevelt College (CHI), St. Thomas (HOU), DePaul (CHI), Loyola (CHI), Argosy (CHI), Northeastern Illinois, Chicago State, Houston Baptist

Art History PhDs
Chicago: University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago
Houston: Rice (1/2 point, begins Fall 2009)

Non-Profits
Chicago: 100
Houston: 100

Really, yer just not asking the right questions.
Metro area: Chicago: 9,524,673 Houston: 5,628,101

Founded in the year: Chicago: 1770 Houston: 1835

see, they’re not so big- they’re just old.

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tobrienwriter October 11, 2008 - 16:17

You forgot U of Illinois Chicago, an institution a number of the above finalists are associated with. Also, U of Chicago.

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b.s. October 11, 2008 - 17:40

cool. so it’s Chicago 2 1/2, Houston 1 on that.

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b.s. October 11, 2008 - 17:47

Chi 3 1/2, Hou 1

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