2018年8月17日 星期五

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The philanthropic foundation released its annual list of Great Immigrants on June 28 comprised of 38 naturalized ... S. Altman to pay a visit to five past honorees — and we also get to meet a dynamic member of the dynamic class of 2018.

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Press Releases. July Fourth Tribute Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants. By Celeste Ford — 06.28.2018. Philanthropic foundation established by Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie invites Americans to join in public awareness initiative.

July Fourth Tribute Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants

BY CELESTE FORD — 
Philanthropic foundation established by Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie invites Americans to join in public awareness initiative.  

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Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants on June 28 comprised of 38 naturalized citizens who enrich the fabric of American culture and strengthen our democracy through their lives, their work, and their example. Our philanthropic foundation, its board of trustees and staff, invite Americans to help celebrate these distinguished individuals by participating in its online tribute titled “Great Immigrants, Great Americans.”

Every Fourth of July since 2006, the Corporation has sponsored the public awareness initiative to commemorate the legacy of our founder, Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie, who believed strongly in both immigration and citizenship. Today the Great Immigrants tribute is an archive of accomplishment featuring more than 500 exemplary naturalized U.S. citizens. For 2018, the honorees represent nearly 30 different countries of origin, a range of personal immigration experiences, and high-level leadership in numerous fields, all of them united through their experience of becoming Americans. Among the honorees:
  • Art Acevedo Chief of Police, Houston
  • Ana Mari Cauce President, University of Washington
  • Joachim Frank and Shuji Nakamura Nobel Prize winners
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha public health advocate
  • Salud Carbajal and Pramila Jayapal members of U.S. Congress
  • Dara Khosrowshahi CEO of Uber
  • Daniel Libeskind architect
  • Elliott Erwitt photographer
  • Kumail Nanjiani actor
  • Regina Spektor singer and songwriter
“Andrew Carnegie understood that immigrants come here to be a part of America, not apart from America” said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York.  “In their faith, their love of family, and their patriotism for their adopted land, these Great Immigrants have done so much — and will do so much more in the future. For this, and for all their contributions, we respect, admire, and celebrate them.”
The honorees will be recognized with a full-page public service announcement in the New York Times on the Fourth of July. For the months of June and July, the Corporation has produced public awareness materials for sharing online via Facebook and Twitter @CarnegieCorp #GreatImmigrants.
In addition, the Corporation commissioned a series of compelling photo profiles by acclaimed photojournalist Jennifer S. Altman featuring Great Immigrants past and present: police chief Acevedo, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, media entrepreneur and author Arianna Huffington, conservationist and public servant Sally Jewell, actor John Leguizamo, and author Gary Shteyngart.
Nearly nine million lawful permanent residents (LPRs) are currently eligible to naturalize and become U.S. citizens. In keeping with the mission of our founder, Carnegie Corporation of New York is committed to the integration of LPRs with the goal of helping them become citizens who can participate fully in our democracy.
The 2018 Great Immigrants and their countries of origin:
  • Art Acevedo Chief of Police, Houston, Texas (Cuba)
  • Matee Ajavon Professional Basketball Player (Liberia)
  • Mohamad Ali CEO, Carbonite (Guyana)
  • Ruth Behar Anthropologist and Writer (Cuba)
  • Nicolas Berggruen Founder and Chairman, Berggruen Institute (France)
  • Max Boot Military Historian and Columnist (Russia)
  • Salud Carbajal U.S. Congressman, California, District 24 (Mexico)
  • Ana Mari Cauce President, University of Washington (Cuba)
  • Bernard Cherkasov Executive Director, Cradles to Crayons (Azerbaijan)
  • Kerron Clement Olympic Gold Medalist in Track and Field (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • Rocco Commisso Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Mediacom (Italy)
  • Teddy Cruz Architect and Professor of Public Culture and Urbanization, University of California, San Diego (Guatemala)
  • Du Yun Composer and Performer, Pulitzer Prize in Composition (China)
  • Du Yun 杜韻,作曲家, Khaled Jarrar多媒體視覺藝術家
  • 杜韵：征服美国的华人作曲家
    邵思睿：杜韵认为艺术家要关注社会问题。尊重自己、尊重他人的民族性格，更容易正面影响世界。
  • Elliott Erwitt Photographer (France)
  • Adriano Espaillat U.S. Congressman, New York, District 13 (Dominican Republic)
  • Joachim Frank Biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Germany)
  • James P. Gorman CEO, Morgan Stanley (Australia)
  • Marina Walker Guevara Journalist, Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting (Argentina)
  • Mona Hanna-Attisha Pediatrician and Public Health Advocate (England)
  • Oscar Isaac Actor and Musician (Guatemala)
  • Pramila Jayapal U.S. Congresswoman, Washington, District 7 (India)
  • Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber (Iran)
  • Valentina Kozlova Former Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet (Russia)
  • Daniel Libeskind Architect (Poland)
  • Martyna Majok Playwright, Pulitzer Prize in Drama (Poland)
  • Sheila Lirio Marcelo Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com (Philippines)
  • Imbolo Mbue Author, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (Cameroon)
  • Thomas Nagel Philosopher, Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy (Serbia)
  • Shuji Nakamura Engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics (Japan)
  • Kumail Nanjiani Actor and Writer (Pakistan)
  • Yvonne Orji Actress (Nigeria)
  • Carlos R. Ponce Neuroscientist, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (Mexico)
  • Antoni Ribas Physician and Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, UCLA (Spain)
  • Regina Spektor Singer and Songwriter (Russia)
  • Marcelo Suárez-Orozco Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (Argentina)
  • Eugene H. Trinh Astronaut and Biochemist (Vietnam)
  • Hans Tung Managing Partner, GGV Capital (Taiwan)
  • Carmen R. Velasquez New York State Supreme Court Justice, District 11 (Ecuador)

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Carnegie Corporation of New York was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation's agenda focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered of paramount importance: international peace, the advancement of education and knowledge, and a strong democracy.
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the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows


Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 31 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

BY CELESTE FORD — 
$6.2 million in philanthropic support for significant research in the humanities and social sciences

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 31 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships
Building on a century-old, philanthropic tradition of investing in creative scholarly research, Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. As part of the so-called “brainy award,” 31 extraordinary scholars and writers will each receive up to $200,000, making it possible for them to devote their time to significant research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

A distinguished panel of jurors selected the fellows based on the quality of their proposals. As part of the criteria, they looked for high-caliber scholarship that applies fresh perspectives to some of the most pressing issues of our times, shows potential for meaningful impact on a field of study, and has the capacity for dissemination to a broad audience.

Topics of the winning proposals focus on a broad variety of complex political, economic, technological, humanistic, and sociological matters. Among them: ethics pertaining to fertility treatments; moral dilemmas for workers such as prison guards and military drone operators; the disproportionate number of black women in U.S. prisons; policing in impoverished, midsized cities; inequality in healthcare from state to state; college choices among students in rural America; protecting online privacy; countering misinformation in news coverage; public attitudes toward climate change; the environmental and cultural impact of garbage in Appalachia; assumptions about nuclear deterrence and strategic stability; immigration and xenophobia; disaster recovery in Puerto Rico; and controlling infectious diseases.
“We were reassured by the immense talent and breadth of experience reflected in the proposals from this year’s nominees for the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program,” said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and president emeritus of Brown University. “Since its founding in 1911, the Corporation has provided strong support to individual scholars, as well as a wide variety of institutions, causes, and organizations. The response to the fellows program gives me great hope for the future of the study of the humanities and the social sciences as a way for this country to learn from the past, understand the present, and devise paths to progress and peace.”
Gregorian noted that the fellows program includes a balance of emerging and established scholars from public and private colleges and universities across the country. For the class of 2018, 14 of the fellows are from public institutions and two-thirds are women. The selection committee of 17 jurors comprises scholars and intellectual leaders from some of the world’s leading educational institutions, foundations and scholarly societies—seven are either current or former university presidents.
“The jurors were greatly impressed by the wide range of institutions represented, the remarkable quality and depth of the proposals, and the overall display of intellectual diversity and creativity shown by the nominees,” said Susan Hockfield, chair of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program jury, and president emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Narrowing the field to 31 fellows was both challenging and rewarding for the jurors. We are pleased to know that this investment provides a tremendous opportunity for the fellows to contribute important research and writing to their fields of study, which is a benefit to us all.”
Each year as part of the nominating process, the heads of more than 600 institutions, representing universities, think tanks, publishers, and nonprofit organizations nationwide, are invited to nominate up to two people for the fellowships. For 2018, the Corporation received a total of 270 nominations. Each underwent a preliminary evaluation by anonymous, nationally prominent experts in various fields. Then the top proposals were forwarded to the members of the jury for their scrutiny and ultimate decision.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows program was established with the inaugural class in 2015. The anticipated result of each fellowship is a book or major study. View an interactive timeline featuring the history of scholarly research at the Corporation, and read more about the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program, the class of 2018, and the work of past honorees on Carnegie.org. Join the conversation online at #CarnegieFellows and via Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program Jurors
  • Chair:Susan Hockfield president emerita and professor of neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jared L. Cohon president emeritus and university professor of engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Mary Sue Coleman president, Association of American Universities and president emerita, University of Michigan
  • John J. DeGioia president, Georgetown University
  • Robbert Dijkgraaf director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Jonathan Fanton president, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Amy Gutmann president, University of Pennsylvania
  • Rush D. Holt CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Alberto Ibargüen president and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
  • Ira Katznelson professor of political science and history, Columbia University
  • Arthur Levine president, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
  • Earl Lewis founding director, Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan; immediate past president, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  • Marcia McNutt president, National Academy of Sciences
  • Alondra Nelson president, Social Science Research Council
  • Don Randel president emeritus, The University of Chicago
  • Louise Richardson vice-chancellor, University of Oxford
  • Pauline Yu president, American Council of Learned Societies

About Carnegie Corporation of New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York was established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. In keeping with this mandate, the Corporation's work focuses on the issues that Andrew Carnegie considered of paramount importance: international peace, education and knowledge, and a strong democracy.
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2018年8月12日 星期日

7年擦10萬片鏡


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凌晨4點阿伯搬梯 7年擦10萬片鏡！誓言做到人生最後
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2018年8月9日 星期四

田家炳逝世

香港 明報月刊
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慈善家田家炳逝世

 

著名慈善家、企業家田家炳先生於七月十日逝世，享年九十八歲。田先生十五歲輟學，擔起家庭生計；五十年代在港興建化工實業，有「人造皮革大王」之稱。此後，他以豐厚的財產於各地捐辦慈善、公益事業，尤其重視教育的發展，曾言「中國的希望在教育」。一九八二年成立的田家炳基金會，懷抱「安老扶幼，興學育才，推廣文教，造福人群，回饋社會，貢獻國家」的宗旨，於中港兩地興建百多學校，資助不同的學術研究項目。其一生勤勉儉樸、樂善好施、作風低調，曾變賣居住多年的大宅，捐出近八成的身家作慈善用途。
二○一○年田先生獲香港政府頒發「大紫荊勳章（GBM）」，以表揚其對社會的貢獻。
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