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Lin-Manuel Miranda to Receive NAB Leadership Foundation Service to America Leadership Award
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The Service to America Leadership Award recognizes individuals and organizations responsible for improving the lives of others through extraordinary public service. It is the Leadership Foundation s highest individual honor.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the critically acclaimed songwriter, actor and director, is the creator and original star of Broadway s Tony-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. His work has garnered a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, two Olivier Awards, and an Emmy Award, among others. Miranda is the recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors and the 2019 Portrait of a Nation Prize.
The film version of, In the Heights, with Miranda serving as producer, songwriter and featured actor, will be released on June 10, 2021. He will make his film directorial debut with, Tick, Tick… Boom! which will be released by Netflix later in 2021.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 28, 2021) University of Kentucky Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that two recent UK graduates have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to travel abroad to teach, study or pursue research for the 2021-22 academic year.
Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected based on academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The program operates in more than 140 countries.
This year’s UK Fulbright recipients are:
Schuyler Baas, a 2020 management and Lewis Honors College graduate, who will teach in Spain and lead a Model United Nations Program; and
Clarissa Grace Somers, a 2021 food science and Lewis Honors College graduate, who will pursue graduate studies in Ireland.