Santa Maria is a major university city with a population of around a quarter of a million.
By contrast, Obama's top contributors are primarily law firms, with a major university and an investment bank also occupying top spots.
In early December, I woke up on Saturday morning (I was a management employee of a major university in New Haven, CT working at the medical school in one of the most vibrant departments) with horrible pain in my left cheek bone.
She is also a trustee at Queens University in Charlotte and a major supporter of Furman University and many North Carolina museums and community foundations.
"Chinese students can swarm a problem, " a dean at a major Chinese university told us.
"We haven't got money from any anyone, " gripes Casey Crumpton, a finance major at University of Montevallo in Alabama and a member of the school's three-week-old fishing team.
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All three are close to a larger city and are within commuting distance of a university or major research institution.
According to Dajani, more than four in ten Jordanian women who go to a university major in science, engineering or medicine.
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He caught the theatre bug as a history major at the University of Southern California, where he wrote several musicals, including a few songs that would later appear in "Jekyll, " and caught the attention of the Los Angeles music industry.
As a finance major at the University of Florida in the late 1990s, Sean McMahon felt like he was part of a digital vanguard that would help rid Wall Street of long-standing inefficiencies.
Never a star student, he graduated from Florida State University with a major in criminology but a grade point average of 2.0 in 1971.
The success factors include having at least one major university, a strongly affiliated industry group, access to human capital, and a major catalyst or company which creates new markets and opportunities for other entrepreneurs.
"I felt like Rocky was about to get in nine rounds with the Russian, " said Aaron Decker, 20 years old, a marketing major at the University of West Georgia.
The idea for his company came to Plank while he was a senior at the University of Maryland, a business major who made the football team at this Division I school.
Hermann will become just the third woman to serve as the top athletic administrator at a major U.S. university.
Collegiate eSports grows in popularity every year and has a presence at almost every major university in the United States.
Levie squeezed his way with a low-B average into the University of Southern California as a business major.
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David Williams, a handsome 24-year-old math major at Southern Methodist University, bets it all with a pair of fours.
My name is Chris Urban, and I'm a public policy major at George Mason University.
He was a pre-med major at the University of Miami, but failed to get into med school.
During his trip he will give what is being billed as a major policy speech at Tel Aviv University.
Jeffrey Tiedman, an intern with Sportsimpacts and a Senior Business major at Saint Louis University, co-authored this piece with me.
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Yelena Bosovik is currently a marketing and management major at Drury University and the editor in chief of the Drury Mirror.
In 1997 Oliver Carsten, a professor of transport safety at the University of Leeds in England, coordinated a major European research project on intelligent speed adaptation.
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Ashley Shaw, a freshman broadcast journalism major at Howard University, says she shops with cash, not credit, so she's aware of how much she can spend.
Kandace Barker, a freshman public relations major at Howard University, said shopping with credit cards made her feel as though she could still buy clothes even if she didn't have money.
Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.
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Mark DuChadolier(ph) is a computer science major at North Carolina Central University.
Spencer is a freshman computer science major at Michigan State University who hopes to harness his entrepreneurial spirit to someday build and run his own software start-up.
The Tin Roof Brewing Company, a microbrewery near LSU's campus, announced a partnership this summer with the university that may result in what could be a first for a major football program: an officially licensed school beer.
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