Jack Dangermond Honored by IGU with Planet and Humanity Medal afp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from afp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole
Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo)
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Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement in Memorial Stadium, which starts at 11 a.m. on June 13. We are honored to have Annette Gordon-Reed as our commencement speaker this year, says President Philip J. Hanlon 77. With her groundbreaking scholarship, she joins a cohort of prominent honorary degree recipients whose work in the arts, economics, education, and science is transforming our world for the better.
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Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in
Poetry,
AzonaL,
Sara Backer’s first book of poetry,
Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks:
Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and
Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Programs. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, lives in New Hampshire, and reads for the
Maine Review. Point,
Marianne Boruch’s tenth book of poetry is
The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She has written three essay collections about poetry, most recently
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Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87
By Susan H. Greenberg The Washington Post,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Aurora Humanitarian Prize
Vartan Gregorian, the Iranian-born historian and educator who transformed the New York Public Library from a broke and derelict institution into a thriving center of culture and learning and who pushed tirelessly for improving access to knowledge through his leadership of Brown University and the grantmaking Carnegie Corp., died April 15 in New York City. He was 87.
The Carnegie Corp. announced his death in a statement, which said he had been hospitalized for testing related to stomach pain.