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  Daniel Quinn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.
Quinn is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.
This fellowship was established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems".
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : T/TU/TUR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Turner is named after George Turner, a Federalist, legislator and one of the founders of the Australian Constitution.
Turners Puddle is a hamlet in Dorset, England, situated on the River Piddle in the Purbeck district, seven miles north west of Wareham.
Turner Entertainment Company was initiated by Ted Turner in 1986 after he acquired MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and its library that at the time included all of the studio's pre-1986 output, the pre-1948 Warner Bros. output, a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and some United Artists material..
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 People - September 6, 2004
The fellowship is designed to enhance the racial and ethnic diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and health services research labor force.
The award is given to those who demonstrate excellence in commitment to the advancement and promotion of women in academic health professions.
Turner is a past president of SELAM and is the only dentist to hold that position.
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 Public Roads Magazine
The six award categories can be divided into two groups: "nationally competed awards" and "campus-based awards." The nationally competed awards include the Eisenhower Graduate Fellowships, the Eisenhower Grants for Research Fellowships, and the Eisenhower Faculty Fellowships.
Each of these awards addresses the requirements of a rapidly changing transportation field, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of modern transportation and extending professional expertise beyond the traditional areas of engineering and science.
The graduate fellowships provide tuition and a monthly stipend to master's degree and doctoral candidates conducting transportation-related research at the university of their choice.
www.tfhrc.gov /pubrds/julaug01/dwightprogram.htm   (2004 words)

  
  
Lorenzo Dow Turner was a Linguist/Africanist holding a Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Chicago.
Lorenzo Dow Turner was born in 1890 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, the youngest of four sons to Rooks Turner and Elizabeth Freeman.
Turner first came in contact with speakers of Gullah when he heard natives of John's Island, one of the ten Gullah Islands, at a summer class he taught at South Carolina State College in 1929.
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 ReadIshmael.com - Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Wins Ted Turner's Tomorrow Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn was awarded the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship.
This was an award given by Ted Turner, Founder of CNN and Turner Network Television and Time Magazine's 1991 Man of the Year, for a book offering creative solutions to global problems.
The Turner Tomorrow Fellowship was worth $500,000, the largest sum ever awarded to a single work of literature.
www.readishmael.com /readishturner.html   (138 words)

  
 Reflections on Anthropology | Web Links
Quote: "The award is presented for a non-fiction work on the subject of tolerance and is part of the Center's efforts to recognize achievements by individuals whose work promotes tolerance.
In 1991, Ishmael, a "novel" of anthropological philosophy by Daniel Quinn, was awarded the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship.
This award of $500,000 was given by Ted Turner, Founder of CNN and Turner Network Television and Time Magazine's 1991 Man of the Year, for a book offering creative solutions to global problems.
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In 1991, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn was awarded the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship.
The Turner Tomorrow Fellowship is a prize for fiction that presents creative and positive solutions to global problems.
The 1991 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship of $500,000 was the largest sum ever awarded to a single work of literature.
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 Ishmael Community: The Annals of Ishmael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Turner Tomorrow Award winners, flanked by Ted Turner and Jane Fonda: Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) with runners-up Sara Cameron (Natural Enemies), Andy Goldblatt (The Bully Pulpit), and Janet Keller (Necessary Risks).
The awards dinner was held in the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History on June 3, 1991.
Ted Turner presents Daniel with a crystal trophy -- the globe of the world atop a pedestal -- inscribed "The Turner Tomorrow Award, Daniel Quinn, Ishmael."
www.ishmael.com /Origins/Ishmael/annals/fellowship.shtml   (124 words)

  
 2003 BEA Distinguished Education Service Award Recipient
The organization's goal is to bring together the wisdom of yesterday's founders, the power of today's leaders, and the promise of tomorrow's young professionals.
The IRTS Summer Fellowship Program earned its stripes as one of the nation's 10 best internships after Tudryn overhauled the program in the late eighties, to include an all-expense paid opportunity featuring a one-week orientation to the business, followed by eight weeks of experience in a customized position that complemented the student's career goals.
The award will be presented at the BEA Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV, April 4-7, 2003.
www.beaweb.org /bea2003/tudryn.html   (1018 words)

  
 Biofilmographies
Amos won several awards, including a Columbia DuPont Award and Breakthru Award, and widespread recognition for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1991.
The winner of several writing fellowships (including ones from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation) and numerous awards (including the Overseas Press Club of America's award for the best article on a foreign subject and the Page One Award for the best investigative story), Mr.
He is a specialist in the study of Chinese student movements and the symbolism of the Chinese revolution, and the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China, and coeditor of Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China.
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 Ishmael - PowerBookSearch!
Quinn (Dreamer) won the Turner Tomorrow Award's half-million-dollar first prize for this fascinating and odd book--not a novel by any conventional definition--which was written 13 years ago but could not find a publisher.
Winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a literary competition intended to foster works of fiction that present positive solutions to global problems, this book offers proof that good ideas do not necessarily equal good literature.
Here's the novel that, out of 2500 submissions, won the ecological-minded Turner Tomorrow Award--and caused a mutiny among the judges when it was awarded the $500,000 first prize.
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 Vita
Cross, S. (2001).  Training the scientists and engineers of tomorrow:  A person X situation approach.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 296-323.
Turner, J. E., and Cross, S. (1996, April).  Individual differences in students’ academic motivation, emotional experiences, and general well-being.
This is the introductory course in psychology, which is team-taught.  I am responsible for the last quarter of the course which focuses on social psychology.
www.psychology.iastate.edu /faculty/scross/webvita01.htm   (1990 words)

  
 General Releases - Texas Tech Red Raiders :: The Official Athletic Site
Hanspard is also an ordained Pentecostal minister who is actively involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and routinely speaks to church groups and to school kids about the importance of education, faith and avoiding drugs.
Hanspard will accept the award at the 1996 Dr Pepper Doak Walker Award Presentation Banquet in the Regency Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel tomorrow evening, December 3.
Hanspard will also be recognized at the 1996 Home Depot College Football Awards Show broadcast on ESPN on Thursday, December 12, 1996.
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 20th Israel Film Festival - Press Releases
In 1998 she received the Crystal Award from Women in Film to honor those “outstanding women who… have helped enhance the role of women within the entertainment Industry.” In 2001, Gale was presented the WIF Founders Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Vision Award at the Temecula Film Festival.
The award is given to a member of the film community whose humanitarian efforts have been a credit to the industry.
His films have won awards worldwide and include such celebrated titles as: “On the Edge,” “Family Secret” and “Dangerous Acts.” He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli Film & TV Producers Association since 1990 and was Chairman from 2000-2003.
www.israelfilmfestival.com /iff04/newsread.aspx?articleID=6   (1569 words)

  
 Tufts Journal: People: August Notes
They are the real heroes." Brink was nominated for the award by the mother of one of his patients who lauded his compassion in caring for her son, who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 13.
This competitive award is the second for the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in 12 months.
By unanimous decision, he was awarded the title of Member of Honor of the Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis.
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 Reese Descendants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Mary Reese Turner (1872-1903) daughter of John J. was the third generation in the valley.
Her son, Joseph E. Turner is currently a resident in the valley.
Turner worked as a carpenter and for the past eight years had been employed at the hospital as custodian.
home.comcast.net /~mturner.utah/ReeseEditFinal.html   (18151 words)

  
 Newsletter: First Generation
Now, six decades later, when UCLA awards more doctorates than any other graduate program in the nation, the time seems right to cast a retrospective glance back at those scholars who received their degrees in its first academic generation.
During the 1940s, UCLA awarded 43 Ph.Ds in History, and the department was becoming a major center of graduate training.
He received the Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, where he had a prominent role in establishing an Afro-American Studies department at the Northridge campus during the violent atmosphere of the 1970s-a challenging endeavor that aided the process of peace-making on campus.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/newsletter/sp97/firstgen.html   (2646 words)

  
 Ishmael (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It presents an alternative view of human history and proposes a different program for human lifestyle change.
Ishmael was awarded the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award.
The book is the first of a trilogy including The Story of B, and My Ishmael.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishmael_by_Daniel_Quinn   (2186 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ishmael at Epinions.com
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn won the award in 1991, which will not be awarded again, and was selected out of 2500 entries by a celebrity panel including famous sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury.
The award was worth $500,000, the largest single sum ever awarded to a single work of literature.”
Do you even know what that is? In an interview he once said that there’s no such thing as a soul.
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 WhoWon.com ... The Internet Source for Motorsports News and Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Stan Sinack won the Golden Shoepolish award, given out by clock operators Amy Gunter and Denise Shubert to the racer who put the most legible dial-in numbers on their race car.
Paula Hancock was given an award for dedicating her time for over two decades to help Atlanta Dragway.
The rest of the champions were awarded a trophy, a VP check, a Don Brown check and a champion’s jacket.
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 Previous Award Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Her awards include Woodrow Wilson, Kent (Danforth), and Guggenheim Fellowships; an Asian Cultural Council Grant; a Social Science Research Council Grant; a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers; a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency; a Camargo Foundation residency in Cassis; and the USITT (U.S. Association of Theater Designers and Technicians) Golden Penä Award.
She received the Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies, Princeton, in 2001, and was a Fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, in 2001-02.
He was the recipient of the Rodgers and Hammerstein College Presidents Award for the person who had done the most for the theatre in Boston during the year, as well as the George Foster Peabody Award for his television program.
www.arts.cornell.edu /english/nathan/previous.html   (13127 words)

  
 Universal Pantheist Society - Ishamael Book Review
The winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship in 1992, the author of the book, Daniel Quinn, has received enthusiastic letters from readers in every corner of the world: the Near East, the Far East, Africa, Australia, South America, Europe, and Canada.
It is being used in an astounding variety of classroom courses, from midschool to graduate school (from animal behavior to zoology and everything in between, including anthropology, ethics, geography, and history).
Ishmael eloquently achieves the purpose of the Turner award to encourage authors to write fiction that produces creative and positive solutions to global problems.
www.pantheist.net /society/ishmael_book_review.html   (1717 words)

  
 Instant Classics: Contributors
Connie Deanovich won a G.E. Award for Younger Writers in 1990, and is the author of Ballerina Criminology (Pink Dog Press).
Frederic Lyon Glover received a 1992 Artists Fellowship for Playwriting/Screenwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Daniel Quinn's novel, Ishmael (Bantam), won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship in 1991.
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 Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Ishmael
Description: Now available in paperback for the first time, Ishmael is the winner of the Turner Tomorrow Award--a prize for fiction that offers solutions to global problems.
When a man in search of truth answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious students, he finds himself alone in an abandoned office with a gorilla named Ishmael.
Daniel Quinn's first book, Ishmael, won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, a prize for fiction presenting creative and positive solutions to global problems.
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 Bahrain Embassy to the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Despite the Pentagon's July 1 departure order to the families of American military servicemen in Bahrain for safety reasons, the number of flight reservations from Bahrain to the US have not increased, say many travel agencies.
The United States Embassy has announced that it has started accepting applications for the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program grants commencing from September 2005.The nine-month non-degree program administered by the Department of State brings accomplished mid-career professionals from all over the world to the United States for educational and related professional experiences.
Applicants are selected based on their potential for national leadership commitment to public service in either the private or public sector.
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 New Zealand Literary Award Winners
The award is given to the author of the book which that is considered to be the most distinguished contribution to literature for children in any given year, by an author who is a citizen or resident of New Zealand.
The Foxton Fellowship is administered by the New Zealand Society of Authors and made possible by one of the Society's member who, with his wife, has donated the annual award of $5,000.
The A W Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature was presented to Joy Cowley.
www.bookcouncil.org.nz /events/awardwinners.html   (6742 words)

  
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Sheetal also starred in 'American Chai (SLAMDANCE Audience Award and GEN ART Favorite Feature) which was released in 2002 and continues to open around the world on screen and on DVD.
His professional acting career began a few years back playing the lead role in the award winning American Chai (www.americanchai.com) Aalok loves expressing in both mediums and believes they serve each other.
Mitra has received numerous awards for her work, is featured in the "Best Business Stories of 2003" and was most recently named Young Journalist of the Year by the New York State Associated Press Association.
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