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  Australian of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960.
The Australian of the Year Walk is on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra.
List of Senior Australian of the Year Award recipients
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_of_the_Year   (334 words)

  
 Member Recognition
Years of membership shall commence from the date of joining an Affiliated Club or a Ladies Auxiliary or former junior surf lifesaving association(s) but not earlier than the age to become eligible to obtain SLSA's Surf Rescue Certificate, whichever shall be the later date.
Meritorious Awards may be awarded to Affiliated Clubs and/or their members and/or the public generally for outstanding deeds of bravery performed in the sphere of operations of SLSA.
Recipients of a Commendation are not excluded from nominating for a Meritorious Award.
www.slsa.com.au /default.aspx?s=memberrecognition   (2692 words)

  
 TEXT Vol 6 No 2 Tess Brady
The award, with a prize money of $20,000 (before royalties) and a guarantee of publication, is for an unpublished manuscript of more than 30,000 words by an Australian writer who is at the time of entry, not more than 35 years old.
For the first award three judges were appointed, all of them coming from the literary establishment, a tradition that has survived over the years of the award.
Mandy Sayer won the award in 1989 but at the time was living in the US, married to a US citizen and, as residency was a condition of the award, had to be coached into saying that she was a resident of Australia and was only in the US temporarily "studying".
www.gu.edu.au /school/art/text/oct02/brady.htm   (7513 words)

  
 Botanical Society of America: 2005 Society Award Recipients   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 awards as presented at the Botanical Society of America Banquet held at the Botany 2005 Conference in Austin, Texas.
This award is given to a young scholar for a paper published during the previous year in the fields of evolutionary and/or structural botany.
This year's awardee is William E. Friedman of the University of Colorado for his research contributions on double fertilization in Gnetophytes, the origin of angiosperm endosperm and concepts on the early evolution of gametophytic structure.
www.botany.org /newsite/awards/2005awardrecipients.php   (2620 words)

  
 Category:Recipients of formal honors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients E-I
List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients A-D
List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Q-Z
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Recipients_of_formal_honors   (435 words)

  
 Lindbergh Award Recipients
Yolanda Kakabadse, a native of Ecuador, was recognized with the 2005 Lindbergh Award for her lengthy record of coordinating the efforts of international environmental agencies, and for resolving conflicts between industry and environmental concerns throughout Latin America and the world.
Bertrand Piccard was recognized with the 2005 Lindbergh Award not only for his historic 'round-the-world flight in a hot-air balloon, and his spirit of adventure (which so closely mirrors that of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh), but for the new perspective on the environment that evolved from that experience.
Award Presented at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Dr. Thor Heyerdahl, famed anthropologist and explorer, is best known for his transoceanic and other voyages in replicas of early sailing craft to test his theories of the spread of early peoples and cultures.
www.lindberghfoundation.org /events/past.html   (6863 words)

  
 First Annual Canadian Peace Award Recipients and Canadian Peace Hall of Fame Inductee
Awards will be presented in 12 major categories for Canadian achievements in building a Culture of Peace and Non-violence, at home and abroad.
Through teaching young children values of respect, tolerance, and empathy, and by equipping them with the necessary skills to resolve conflict in a non-violent manner, they are provided with the tools they need, now and in the future, to foster peaceful relations at home, at school and around the world.
Subsequent to a working meeting earlier this year, a new New Agenda resolution was overwhelmingly adopted at the United Nations on 1 November, 2000 by a vote of 146 to three with eight abstentions: an obvious and unequivocal endorsement.
www.peace.ca /1stannualcanadian.htm   (6329 words)

  
 Cooper Ornithological Society :=: Loye and Alden Miller Award Recipients
It is a pleasure to present the first Miller Award to the man whose broad view of life, intelligence, insight, and diligence have been combined to create a new way of looking at the individual animal.
Throughout her many years of teaching and research, she has been a model for the earnest, yet good-natured scientist who is far more concerned with seeking the truth and sharing the joys of research than with enhancing her reputation and ego.
In recognition of her heroic and pioneering studies, her over 50 years of excellence in biological research and excellence in teaching, for being an inspiration to generations of young men and women, the Cooper Ornithological Society takes pleasure in awarding Barbara Blanchard De Wolfe the Miller Award for 1995.
www.cooper.org /COS/COS_award_miller.html   (4825 words)

  
 Welcome to the Department of Education, Science and Training
The Endeavour Programme is an Australian Government initiative, bringing together under the one umbrella all of the Department of Education, Science and Training’s (DEST) international scholarships.
All Australian Ministers of Education and Training have endorsed a Transnational Quality Strategy framework at the MCEETYA meeting on 17 November 2005, to ensure that the quality and integrity of Australian education and training delivered offshore remains world leading.
The Australian Vocational Student Prize recognises outstanding Year 12 students who demonstrate exceptional skill, commitment and achievement while undertaking a Vocational Education and Training in Schools programme or a School-based Australian Apprenticeship as part of their secondary school studies.
www.dest.gov.au /default.htm   (929 words)

  
 ALA | Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award Essays
Each year I note with great interest who is to receive this award for I know that this person will have made an important contribution to the work of information literacy.
So this year when the letter arrived informing me that I had been selected to be this year's recipient, I was completely surprised and delighted.
It is an honor to join the other recipients of the Miriam Dudley Award and to be named in the same year that Hannelore Radar was named the Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and Susan Nutter was presented with the Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award.
www.ala.org /ala/acrlbucket/is/isawards/miriamdudleyinstruction.htm   (10938 words)

  
 Celebrity Research Lists - Famous Who Were Once Homeless
Note: This is a list of celebrities and other prominent and famous individuals who have experienced being homeless for a brief or extended period at one time in their lives, either as children or adults.
Recipients of Special Oscars and Honorary Oscars are subject to an Academy Board of Governors in-house committee nominating and voting process and are therefore described herein as, and included in the count totals for, "Oscar Winners" and "Oscar Nominees."
The award name "Emmy®" is a registered trademark of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
www.angelfire.com /stars4/lists/homeless.html   (2927 words)

  
 Children's Book Awards and Other Literary Prizes
Awards for nonprint media such as computer software or video for children and young adults are also included.
Award for a work of historical fiction from a U.S. publisher and set in the New World.
Award to a single volume of poetry published for children in a calendar year.
falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/awards.htm   (1738 words)

  
 Scholarship Recipients for 2005 - 2006 School Year
Katherine was awarded the Bauer Scholarship for her academic and community excellence, and the AICPA Success Through Scholarship Award for academic excellence in accounting.
Debra was awarded the James Scholars Distinction, which recognizes and encourages the talents of academically outstanding, undergraduate students within each college, and participated in the Illinois Leadership Certificate Program, which is designed to provide students with experience and growth in leadership.
She is a James Newton Matthews Scholar, an award given to students who have demonstrated the ability to contribute to the University.
www.icpas.org /icpas/endowment/scholarship_recpt_05.asp   (867 words)

  
 Young money-maker of the year   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The conferring of these honours is decided by some anonymous committee, and their recipients are usually a politically correct mix of indigenous Australians, artists, medical specialists, tireless community workers and military personnel.
This year the award for Young Australian of the Year went to Poppy King.
Poppy King is the successful '90s entrepreneur who invested $40,000 three years ago in an idea for a new type of lipstick and is now the boss of Poppy Industries, with an annual turnover of $8 million.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/173/173p9b.htm   (587 words)

  
 Hot News of the Year 2004
The Australian reports on Dec. 10th that "Although their 'hobbit' fossils were snatched by a powerful critic, Indonesian and Australian scientists will continue their quest for humanity's Southeast Asian roots next year, with new safeguards to prevent further filching.
Seven years ago, recovering from an infection after surgery with the aid of a common antibiotic, she climbed out of bed feeling pretty good.
Robert Eckhardt, professor of developmental genetics and evolutionary morphology, Laboratory of Comparative Morphology and Mechanics (LCMM), Department of Kinesiology at Penn State, led the U.S. research team responsible for analysis of the CT scans of the internal structure of the fossil bone.
www.nmsr.org /nmsr2004.htm   (14083 words)

  
 List of murdered/missing scientists..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Lasker Award is awarded to clinical scientists annually and is considered “a precursor to receiving the Nobel Prize,” said Philippa Marrack, a professor of immunology at the National Jewish Medical Center and an investigator with Wiley for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The three young friends accused of killing a respected Loudoun County scientist were fascinated with fantasy worlds, witchcraft and the occult, and the slaying had overtones of their fixation, friends and law enforcement sources said yesterday.
The year 2002 will usher in the year of "Asher." The last lost tribe will be found, and the progeny of the 10 lost tribes will return to Israel to fulfill biblical prophecy.
www.apfn.org /apfn/scientists.htm   (18464 words)

  
 Australian of the Year » ABC Canberra
The aim of the awards is to promote Australian values and achievement by recognising excellence and service to the community and the nation.
The Australian of the Year awards have been running since 1960.
The list of the former Award recipients is a “who’s who” of Australian achievers including: Sir Gustav Nossal, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kat Cottee, Pat Rafter, Fred Hollows and Keiran Perkins.
www.abc.net.au /canberra/stories/s1137548.htm   (230 words)

  
 Scoop: Joy Cowley Wins NZ Post Book Of The Year Award
This novel so impressed the judges for this year's New Zealand Post Book Awards with its power and originality that they singled it out as a tour de force of fiction writing with the potential to become a classic of fiction writing for young readers on the international stage.
The award was presented to Joy Cowley by Prime Minister Helen Clark and New Zealand Post's Chief Executive Officer, John Allen, at the awards ceremony hosted by the Hon.
The honour awards were presented in each category in recognition of particular features in each book.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/CU0605/S00155.htm   (1763 words)

  
 Athletics Australia - News & Media - News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Athletics Australia is pleased to announce the 2005 recipients of the Ron Clarke Foundation award.
This year, fifteen young Australian athletes, aged 16 years and over, have been awarded individual grants of $500 which will assist in funding competition at major domestic meets such as the Telstra A- series, National Championships, and other high-level competitions or training camps.
Following are the recipients of $500 grants from the R W Clarke Foundation for 2005:
www.athletics.org.au /news/details.cfm?ObjectID=2498   (149 words)

  
 SteynOnTheWorld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
On September 10th 2001, Europeans would have thought you were insane if you’d predicted that within a couple of years the Muslim question would be the principal political dynamic in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and beyond.
Imagine colonial New England when it was still the Mayflower crowd and one day they woke up and noticed that all the Aldens and Allertons, Billingtons and Bradfords were in their 50s and 60s and all the young guys were called Ahmed and Mohammed.
The point is that for great powers detachment from the affairs of the world is not an option: even-handedness by Washington will be received as a form of one-handedness by the time its effects are felt in Wackistan or Basketkhazia.
www.steynonline.com /index2.cfm?edit_id=24   (2542 words)

  
 Vietnam War Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross - Alphabetical List
(This listing is as complete as we are able to provide from numerous resources, however it is possible that a few recipients may not be listed.
At least 387 awards of the DSC were posthumous awards
Young, Ronald R. Zauber, Jeffery F. *Zerr, Kent M. Ziobron, Edward C. Vietnam D.S.C. Recipients
www.homeofheroes.com /valor/0_DSC/4_rvn/dsc_rvn_list.html   (2936 words)

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