"Cartes"" choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet. In 2013, Ratmansky was named as the MacArthur Fellow of the year, an award that came with ""genius grant"" for ""working in any field, who ""show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work"". (http://www.macfound.org/fellows/900/) Alexei Ratmansky Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky (, born August 27, 1968 in Leningrad) is a Russian-American choreographer and former ballet dancer. As of April 2014 he is the artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre. From 2004 to 2008 he was the director of the Bolshoi Ballet. Ratmansky was born in St. Petersburg and trained under Pyotr"
"and United States competition was approximately US$43,200. Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those ""who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts"". The roll of Fellows includes numerous Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer, and other prize winners. Each year, the foundation makes several hundred awards in each of seven separate competitions: The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to ""advanced professionals in mid-career"" such as published"
"Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is intended for young visionaries under the age of 20 and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years as well as guidance and other resources to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement. Selection for the fellowship is through a competitive annual process, with about 20–25 fellows selected annually. Peter Thiel announced the fellowship at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010. The first round of fellows, based on applications made at the end of 2010, was announced"
"Thiel Fellowship The Thiel Fellowship (originally named 20 under 20) is a fellowship created by Peter Thiel through the Thiel Foundation. The fellowship is intended for students under the age of 23 and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years, as well as guidance and other resources, to drop out of school and pursue other work, which could involve scientific research, creating a startup, or working on a social movement. Selection for the fellowship is through a competitive annual process, with about 20–25 fellows selected annually. It has a selection rate below 1%. Peter Thiel announced the fellowship"
"Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those ""who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts"". The roll of Fellows includes numerous Nobel Laureates, Pulitzer, and other prize winners. Each year, the foundation makes several hundred awards in each of seven separate competitions: The performing arts are excluded, although composers, film directors, and choreographers are eligible. The fellowships are not open to students, only to ""advanced professionals in mid-career"" such as published authors. The fellows may spend the money"
"National Heritage Fellowship The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts. Similar to Japan's Living National Treasure award, the Fellowship is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. It is a one-time only award and fellows must be living citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Each year, fellowships are presented to between nine and fifteen artists or groups at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Fellows are nominated by individual citizens, with an average of over 200 nominations per year."
"Fellowships for Science and Engineering to provide the nation’s most promising early-career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. Each year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two early-career professors each from their institutions. An advisory panel of distinguished scientists and engineers carefully reviews the nominations and selects 16 Fellows to receive individual grants of $875,000, distributed over five years. Packard Fellows have gone on to receive additional awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize; the Fields Medal; and MacArthur, Sloan, Searle,"
"fellow has made in his or her work. STIPEND: The fellowship includes a $1,000 stipend, given in $500 increments. Participants need not be published, but the fellowship is directed toward poets and writers of fiction and creative nonfiction with clear ideas of what they hope to accomplish through their writing. The program is directed towards new writers who lack financial or creative access and writers from immigrant, minority, and other underserved communities. PEN Center USA's annual awards program, established in 1982, is a unique, regional competition that recognizes literary excellence in eleven categories: fiction, creative nonfiction, research nonfiction, poetry, children's"
"field at any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. Each Fellow receives up to $25,000 a year in stipend support and up to $20,000 per year tuition support, allowing Fellows to receive as much as $90,000 over two years. Fellows attend two Fall Conferences in New York City designed to introduce the Fellows to one other and to examine their New American experience. The Fellowship provides opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields and to partake of the American dream. The program was established in recognition of the contributions"
"Genesis Awards The Genesis Awards are awarded annually by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to individuals in the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding works which raise public awareness of animal issues. Presented by the HSUS Hollywood Outreach program, the awards show takes place every March in California. The awards have honored such well-known personalities as Michael Jackson, Aaron Sorkin, Anderson Cooper, Peter Gabriel, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Goodall, David E. Kelley, Paul McCartney, Arthur Miller, Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey, Prince, Jacques Cousteau and Ian Somerhalder, as well as journalists, film and documentary writers and producers,"
"in America's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society."" In addition, the organization asserts that ""USA Fellowships honor and award an artist’s unique vision as a whole rather than funding a particular project. Artists at different career levels, from emerging to established, are eligible."" Prerequisites for consideration include that the artist be 21 or older, a US citizen or legal resident. In addition, nominees must be accomplished artists, must have acquired art training, formal or informal, must have tried to derive income from those skills, and must have been ""actively engaged in creating artwork and presenting it"
"of all Genie Awards ceremonies. The Special Achievement Genie is an award given irregularly to an individual or individuals in recognition of lifetime achievement or an important career milestone. Genie Awards The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the ""Etrog Awards,"" for sculptor Sorel Etrog, who designed the statuette). Genie Award candidates were selected from submissions made by the owners of Canadian films or their representatives, based on the criteria laid out in"
"students who intend to pursue careers in these fields. The Scholarship is widely considered the most prestigious award in the U.S. conferred upon undergraduates studying the sciences. It is awarded to about 300 students (college sophomores and juniors) nationwide in the amount of $7500 per academic year (for their senior year, or junior and senior years). It honors Goldwater's keen interest in science and technology. Goldwater's public appearances ended in late 1996 after he suffered a massive stroke; family members then disclosed he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. He died on May 29, 1998, at the age"
"USD in funding over two years to fifteen young women scientists engaged in exemplary and promising research projects. The Fellowship awards began in 2000 with a one-year award of $20,000 USD and offered ten awards until 2003. In 2003, the number of awards increased to 15 and then in 2006, the grant period extended to two years and the amount of the award increased to $40,000 USD. In 2015, the name ""Rising Talent Grants"" was implemented. 2000 Fellowships awarded yearly to doctoral and post-doctoral women to allow them to pursue their research in host laboratories outside their home countries are:"
"Hertz Foundation The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is an American non-profit organization that awards fellowships to Ph.D. students in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The fellowship provides $250,000 of support over five years. The goal is for Fellows to be financially independent and free from traditional restrictions of their academic departments in order to promote innovation in collaboration with leading professors in the field. Through a rigorous application and interview process, the Hertz Foundation seeks to identify young scientists and engineers with the potential to change the world for the better and supports their research endeavors from"
"NSF-GRF The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) is an annual grant awarded by the National Science Foundation to approximately 2,000 students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in the natural, social, and engineering sciences at US institutions. The fellowship provides an honorarium of $12,000 to be placed towards the cost of tuition and fees at the university the fellow attends; it also awards the student directly with an annual $34,000 stipend for three years. Each recipient could previously apply for a one time only travel award for $1,000. This travel award was previously for international research activities"
"fellowships were awarded, making the fellowship similarly selective to the Rhodes or Marshall Scholarships. Unlike those programs, only undergraduates in their senior year at 40 colleges are eligible to apply. The fellowship itself grants recipients money to spend one year traveling in pursuit of their projects. Recipients are forbidden from reentering the United States and their home country for one year. Projects are not academically oriented, as the fellowship is intended to encourage exploration and new experiences rather than formal research. Currently the award is $30,000 per fellow or $40,000 for a fellow traveling with a spouse or dependent. The"
"the award should have carried out exemplary work in the field of science and technology, which would be useful to mankind. The award carries a cash prize and a citation. The Senior Scientist Award is bestowed on eminent Scientists above the age of 40 and below 60. Proposals will be invited from across the State during the month of December every year and the received proposals will be scrutinised by a high power expert committee. The award carries a cash prize and a citation. The Young Scientist award is bestowed on Scientist below the age of 40. Proposals will be"
"1998 and is meant to recognize ""spontaneous creativity,"" ""unbidden originality,"" and ""extraordinary acts in ordinary circumstances."" It is awarded annually at the end of the school year; recipients are chosen by a panel of judges from the class of 1972 along with past winners of the award. Previous winners have included a series of promotional posters for the 50 states in the first floor restrooms, the staging of the American Revolution in comic strip form, and a Gilbert and Sullivan-style adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"". The Senior Project is a program that began at Uni in the Spring of 2014. The"
"Richard Lounsbery Award The Richard Lounsbery Award is given to American and French scientists, 45 years or younger, in recognition of ""extraordinary scientific achievement in biology and medicine."" The Award alternates between French and American scientists, and is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences in alternating years to a scientist from the other country. The award is selected by a seven-member jury representing both the French and the US Academies. The recipient receives a US$70,000 prize, funding to visit a lab or research institution in the awarding country, and an invitation to give"
"Genius hour Genius Hour is a project in the classroom and sometimes in the workplace where students and employees are allowed to explore their own passions and wonders for a set amount of time, usually ranging from 1 hour per week to 20% of their total class time. Teachers empower students by allowing them to pick a topic of their own, usually framed around an inquiry question, based on their own passions or wonders. Genius Hour originated from the 80/20 idea of many innovative companies, such as Google, where employees are given 20% of their time at work to work"
"group of individuals whose innovative ideas, products or services have created significant change to markets, commerce or trade. This award celebrates innovation in action — not only the creative idea, but also the impact that the practical application of the idea has made on improving the economic well-being of individuals, an industry or a nation. For his contributions to technology, Wozniak has been awarded a number of Honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees, which include the following: Wozniak has been mentioned, represented or interviewed many times in media, including the following programs: After seeing her stand-up performance in Saratoga, California, Wozniak"
"scholarships and bursaries to more than 25,00 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students nationwide. The award categories are: Individuals of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ancestry who have reached a significant level of achievement in their respective occupations are eligible for nomination. Any person may nominate a candidate they deem to be worthy of this recognition with reference to the following criteria: Each year 14 recipients are recognized for their outstanding accomplishments in various disciplines ranging from health, law, political science, culture, arts, and others, two of which are specific recognition to one outstanding youth achiever and one lifetime achievement"
"Edison Awards The Edison Awards are a set of 16 awards that honor excellence in technological innovation, new product and service development, marketing, and human-centered design. The Edison awards are sometimes referred to as ""The Oscars of Innovation"" and are given annually by Edison Universe, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to fostering innovators. The Awards are named after innovator Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) and symbolize the persistence and excellence in innovation personified by him. Award winners represent game-changing products, services and excellence and leadership in innovation around four criteria: Concept, Value, Delivery and Impact. Additionally, Edison Green Awards and Edison"
"each year. Grants are awarded annually to artists working in nine disciplines: List of United States Artists (USA) Fellowship recipients United States Artists United States Artists (USA) is an independent nonprofit and nongovernmental philanthropic organization based in Chicago and dedicated to supporting the work of living American artists by the granting of cash awards, called USA Fellowships. It was founded in 2005 with initial funding from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, The Prudential Foundation, and the Rasmuson Foundation, and the first set of 50 fellowships were announced in 2006. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and"
"announcement termed CAREER ""a premier program."" When a CAREER awardee is granted a PECASE award, the funding level is adjusted to the maximum amount of $500,000 over a five-year period. A maximum of 20 PECASE awards are granted per year to NSF nominees (and 40 more to nominees of other federal agencies). National Science Foundation CAREER Awards The National Science Foundation CAREER awards are the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research, education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their"
"Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist The Hugo Awards are given every year by the World Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine ""Amazing Stories"", and was once officially known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award. The award has been described as ""a fine showcase for speculative fiction"" and ""the best known literary award for science fiction writing"". The Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist is given each year for artists of works related to"
"Geisel Award The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award is a literary award by the American Library Association (ALA) that annually recognizes the ""author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year."" The winner(s) receive a bronze medal at the ALA Annual Conference, presented by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) division of ALA. The award is named for Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, who once said, ""Children want the same things we want: to laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained and delighted."" It"
"Alan T. Waterman Award The Alan T. Waterman Award is the United States's highest honorary award for scientists no older than 40, or no more than 10 years past receipt of their Ph.D. It is awarded on a yearly basis by the National Science Foundation. In addition to the medal, the awardee receives a grant of $1,000,000 to be used at the institution of their choice over a period of five years for advanced scientific research. Congress established the annual award in August 1975 to mark the 25th Anniversary of the National Science Foundation and to honor its first Director,"
"of $1,000,000. All winners receive a medal and scroll, but they split the cash award if there is more than one winner in their category. The Foundation also works to promote increased public understanding of scientists and their work, has programs to help scientists become better communicators, and has programs with museums and other public institutions to help reach the general public about science. The Foundation supports a meeting program that has led to a number of new science initiatives. Among them is The BRAIN Initiative, a broad collaborative research initiative launched in 2013 to accelerate the development of technologies"
"said to be awarded ""irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology"". The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion. The designs on the medal are inspired by the work of architect Louis Sullivan, while the Latin inspired inscription on the reverse of the medallion—""firmitas, utilitas, venustas"" (English: ""firmness, commodity and delight"")—is from Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize. The Executive Director of the prize, Martha Thorne, solicits nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics, critics and others ""with expertise and interest in"
"and National Institutes of Health. Moreover, not only the Secretary General of the United Nations, but also the Deputy Secretary General and the heads of the UN agencies including the International Telecommunications Union, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Health Organization have all endorsed Academy initiatives. Finally, under Mr. Rubinstein's leadership, the Academy has partnered with an increasingly well-known philanthropist in the sciences and arts, Mr. Len Blavatnik, to develop the world's most prestigious awards for young scientists and engineers. The Academy administers annual prizes for the most promising young innovators in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. The"
"Presidential Innovation Fellows The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months, not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results, using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile Development. The highly competitive program features an acceptance rate in the single digits. In the inaugural round in the summer of 2012, over 700 applicants"