Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
208 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016, tel: 212.686.4164, fax: 212.545.1130, e-mail: piasany@verizon.net
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208 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016, tel: 212.686.4164, fax: 212.545.1130, e-mail: piasany@verizon.net |
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Annual Awards Ceremony |
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The annual awards presentations, inaugurated in 1995 held in Williams Club and most recently on November 19, 2005 at the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City, honor distinguished scholars and scientists for their scholarly achievements with a $1000 award. The awards are given in the fields of history (The Oskar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award), sociology (The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Science Award), natural science (The Casimir Funk Natural Science Award), applied sciences (The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award), humanities (The Waclaw Lednicki Award). There is also The Ludwik Krzyzanowski Polish Review Award. Dr. Gershon David Hundert, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, McGill University, recipient of the Oscar Halecki Polish and East Central European History Award for his book Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century; A Genealogy of Modernity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004). Dr. Karen Majewski, Executive Director of the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) and Curator for Orchard Lake Schools, Orchard Lake, Michigan, recipient of the Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award for her book Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939 Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003. Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot , Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, recipient of the Casimir Funk Natural Science Award in recognition of his introduction of the concept of fractals into fields of physics that defied description by conventional concepts and for his impact on these fields. There is no man who so shaped the mathematical imagination of our times as Benoit Mandelbrot. The distinguished awardees include: The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award 1995 - Dr. Andrzej S. Kaminski, Georgetown University 1996 - Dr. Robert Blobaum, University of West Virginia 1997 - Dr. Piotr S. Wandycz, Yale University 1998 - Timothy Snyder, Harvard University 2001 - Dr. Brian Allen Porter, University of Michigan 2003 - Dr. Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award 1995 - Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Cornell University 1996 - Dr. Alexander Wolszczan, Pennsylvania State University 1997 - Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia 1998 - Peter T. Wolczanski, Cornell University, 2001 - Dr. Andrew Wojcicki, State University 2003 - Dr. Waclaw Szybalski, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison . The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award 1995 - Dr. Helena Znaniecka Lopata, Loyola University, Chicago 1995 - Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International Studies 1996 - None awarded 1997 - Dr. Adam Podgorecki, Carleton University & University of Warsaw 1998 - Eva Hoffman, author 2001- Dr. Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award 1995 - None awarded 1996 - Dr. Tomas A. Venclova, Yale University 1997 - None awarded 1998 - Beth C. Holmgren, University of North Carolina, 2001- Dr. Jan C. Cavanaugh, Seattle, Washington 2003 - Dr. Roman Koropeckyj, UCLA The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award 1995 - None awarded 1996 - Dr. Stanislaw Mrozowski, Professor Emeritus, SUNY at Buffalo 1997 - Dr. Stanislaw Gorczyca, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow 1998 - Thaddeus B. Massalski, Carnegie Mellon University 2001- Dr. Wladyslaw Koleczko, President of the Polish Association of Inventors and Industrial Innovators in Warsaw The Ludwik Krzyzanowski Polish Review Award 1995 - Andrzej Chmielarz, Institute of Military History, Warsaw 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003 - None awarded |
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