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Vartan Gregorian receives James L. Fisher Award

Institute Trustee Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, has been honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).  Gregorian was named recipient of the 2008 James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education at the CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders, held in New York City in July. The award honors individuals, organizations, foundations, corporations, or publications for their extraordinary service to education of national and/or international significance, beyond service to a single institution or state.  Gregorian has served on the Institute's Board of Trustees since 1987.

Phillip A. Griffiths Wins Tri-annual Brouwer Prize

The Royal Dutch Mathematical Society has announced that Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been selected to receive the 2008 Brouwer Prize.  To see a full press release on this story, click here.

Jonathan Israel Wins 2008 Heineken Prize

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced that Jonathan Israel, Professor of Modern European History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been selected to receive the 2008 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize in History.  To see a full press release on this story, click here.

Endre Szemerédi Selected for Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics

Endre Szemerédi, Member in the School of Mathematics, has been selected to receive the 2008 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. A professor of mathematics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Szemerédi was selected "for his deep and pioneering work from 1975 on arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers, which has led to great progress and discoveries in several branches of mathematics."  The Rolf Schock Prizes are triennial and are awarded in the fields of logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts and musical arts.  The prizes will be presented at ceremonies in Stockholm on October 22, 2008.

Institute Now Offers Charitable Gift Annuities

Interested individuals can now support the Institute by funding a Charitable Gift Annuity. In this popular charitable giving arrangement, a donor, making a gift of a minimum of $10,000 to the Institute, will receive fixed payments for the life(ves) of one or two individuals. Donors can establish annuities for themselves and/or a spouse, for their parents, or to support a relative or a friend. Donors can elect to have payments start now, or at a date of their choosing. The person receiving the payments must be at least 60 years old when the payments start.

Annuity rates range from 6.5% to 11.3%, depending on the annuitants' ages. A portion of each payment is tax-exempt. Rates will be even higher if the gift is made now and the payments are deferred. There is no limit as to the number of separate annuities that can be established by each donor.  Other benefits include an immediate charitable income tax deduction and capital gains tax deferral if the annuity is funded with appreciated assets such as stock.

To explore how a charitable gift annuity might work for you, please contact Peggy Jackson, Planned Giving Officer, at 609-951-4612 or . If you wish to calculate the payments yourself, access the Planned Giving Gift Calculator under "Ways to Give" on the Institute's website. All calculations are confidential unless you indicate that you wish to be contacted.

		Leading feminist scholars tackle the critical, political, and institutional challenges that women's studies has faced since its widespread integration into university curricula in Women's Studies on the Edge (Duke University Press, 2008), edited by JOAN WALLACH SCOTT, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science.
		Galactic Dynamics: Second Edition (Princeton University Press, 2008) by James Binney and SCOTT TREMAINE, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences,  is a major revision of the 1987 original, which has become one of the most widely used advanced textbooks on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and other stellar systems, and one of the most cited references in astrophysics.
		Pindar Press has just published the first volume of the collected works of IRVING LAVIN, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies.  Visible Spirit: the Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini (2007), brings his far-reaching publications together to provide a valuable resource to scholars and students and to underscore fundamental themes in the history of art: historicism, the art of commemoration, the relationship between style and meaning, the intelligence of artists -- themes that define the role of the visual arts in human communication.
		A Many-Colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe (University of Virginia Press, 2007) by FREEMAN J. DYSON, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, addresses the human and ethical consequences of biotechnology; the place of life in the universe; and the implications of biology for philosophy and religion.
		Inspired by S. S. Chern:  A Memorial Volume in Honor of A Great Mathematician (World Scientific Press, 2007) edited by PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, Professor in the School of Mathematics, contains contributions by former colleagues, students, and friends of S. S. Chern (1911-2004), one of the leading differential geometers of the twentieth century and a former Member in the School of Mathematics (1943-46, 1954-55, 1964-65).
		Enlightenment Contested. Philosophy, Modernity and the Emancipation of Man, 1670-1752 (Oxford University Press, 2006) by JONATHAN ISRAEL, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, continues the major revisionist study he began in Radical Enlightenment:  Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 (Oxford University Press, 2001), offering a groundbreaking new perspective on the nature and development of the most important currents in modern thought.
		In the third revised edition of his biography Clausewitz and the State (Princeton University Press, 2007), PETER PARET, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, adds new documentation and expands his interpretation of the life and work of one of the critical thinkers on issues of war and peace in the modern world.

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