Empire State University (Earth 1)

**Empire State University** (**ESU**) officially Empire State University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League, research university in Manhattan, New York City. The school motto is *Excelsior*.

## History

### Norman Osborn

Norman Osborn was a graduate of Empire State University gaining a science major, fifth year degree. He studied chemistry and electrical engineering along with a number of courses in business administration. He befriended his teacher Professor Mendel Stromm. Working together they formed Osborn Chemical which later became known as Oscorp.

### Emma Frost

In her early life before she joined the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost attended Empire State University and was there when an anti-mutant strike broke out.

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### Peter Parker's College Years

Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy, and Flash Thompson were all accepted as students at ESU. He and Harry became roommates. However while Peter was studying his Aunt May was in hospital and time as Spider-Man constantly distracted him, he did not give a good impression to the other students believing him to be a snob. But once the truth about Aunt May was revealed, he became fast friend with his classmates including those who went to Midtown High School. Peter and his friends would often hangout at the Coffee Bean.

His time at ESU was more stressful then most he was forced to stop a student protest that nearly turned into a riot. This was arranged by the Kingpin so he could steal the Lifeline Tablet. Harry became a drug addict forcing him to take down the dealers. Professor Clifton Shallot became the new "Vulture". Spider-Man forced an antidote down Shallot's throat, stopping him, and Shallot was then jailed for murder.

Edward Lansky, ESU's vice chancellor was secretly the Lightmaster. He hired the Tarantula to kidnap the chancellor. However they were stopped by discovered by Spider-Man and both were arrested.

Dr. Miles Warren was a biochemistry professor at Empire State University, as was Curt Connors (who seems to work sometimes at Empire State University and sometimes at Eastern State University).

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After his graduation Peter went on to continue with his post graduate studies, but continued his studies as a grad student and TA . He quit his graduate studies in, but returned to them but his time as Spider-Man took over and he never completed them.

Mary Jane Watson eventually studied at ESU, taking psychology classes but dropped out to become a model.

### Others

Other students included Chip Martinwho became the "Schizoid Man" and Hector Ayala the "White Tiger".

Brian Braddock was part of the study abroad program. By a strange twist of fate, he ended up rooming with Peter Parker at ESU. Parker also had a secret identity, namely Spider-Man, and after battling the assassin Arcade together, the two began meeting for nightly patrols and training; Peter quickly deduced that his English roommate was also the new English hero in town, but Brian remained unaware that Spider-Man was his roommate. Brian began to drink heavily, and it affected his performance both as a student and as a hero, but soon stopped after inadvertently inflicting serious injuries on an opponent because he had fought them in an inebriated state.

Candace Nelson, the sister of then New York City's District Attorney Franklin Nelson also attended ESU. Her discovery of Ted Sallis' research created a great deal of controversy. Matthew Murdock visited the ESU campus and met with Professor Charles Laing to gather information on the case.

Johnny Storm the Human Torch attended ESU. During a battle between the Human Torch and Skrulls Lyja and Paibok, ESU was heavily damaged by the Human Torch's Nova Flare attack. Afterwards he was expelled.

### Mutant policy

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Facing the increase of the mutant population and the problem of the "mutant question", ESU choose an actively opened integration for mutants, and nineteen evident Mutants (Homo superior) were accepted into the university, most of them rejoining the Students for Tolerance co-species organization.

The X-Man Chamber enrolled briefly at ESU in order to investigate about a bombing that killed six Students for Tolerance. The crime was solved, and proved to had been accidentally provocated by Alex, co-founder with his girlfriend Gigi Martin of Students for Tolerance, but also a mutant with seemingly same abilities as Jono. Gigi had herself tried to hide this fact, to prevent for ESU to close down the pro-mutants programs.

Chamber's findings resulted indeed in ESU closing their main mutant program, with the exception of Amber, a reptilian mutant student who assisted Chamber in his investigation, but create a new human/mutant student exchange program with the Xavier Institute. The first participant of this program was Walter, Chamber's paraplegic, human dorm-mate and former mutant-skeptic. Also, it is mentioned that Chamber lives in Brittany Hall, a real life residence hall at New York University.

### Peter Parker ("Otto Octavius")

When Otto Octavius took over Peter Parker's body he decided to improve his life and re-enrolled at ESU to get his "Peter's" doctorate. It is there he met and fell for Anna Maria Marconi, who offered to tutor him much to his annoyance.

### Starbrand & Nightmask

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Nightmask and Starbrand both attended Empire State University.

### Squirrel Girl

Doreen Green also known as Squirrel Girl, enrolled at ESU. During her first day she encountered her new best friend and confidante, Nancy Whitehead, and her cat Mew. Doreen soon developed a crush one of her her first few acquaintances at the ESU, Tomas Lara-Perez, who would later be revealed as the super hero Chipmunk Hunk, with similar powers to Squirrel Girl's, and become one of Doreen's friends.

## Points Of Interest

* Osborn Hall
* Gorman Gymnasium
* Stacy Memorial Dining Hall
* Ironwood Memorial Auditorium

### Residents

* List of students and faculty
* List of Staff Members

## Notes

* There appears to be (or have been) an annex campus of Empire State at Bayside located in Queens.
* Empire State University is not to be confused with State University in Hegeman, New York of Fantastic Four fame.