Memorial contributions may be sent in memory of Sue Workman to The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation or The David T. Workman Award Endowment at 1249 Fifth Ave . Suite 907, NY, NY 10029.
From sums available for this section under section 1068h of this title, the Secretary is authorized to award endowment challenge grants to eligible institutions to establish or increase an endowment fund at such institution.
No money from the $3 million prize endowment has ever been awarded.
In conjunction with this year's awards, the endowment is expanding this program of $25,000 fellowships, established in 1982, to six from three.
In its award, the endowment said the money was intended to begin "a national program series exploring classical literature".
There will also be a $15,000 People's Choice award and a $25,000 university endowment awarded to the college or university with the greatest number of entries.
In 1997 he was awarded the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts award, a prize that, like the Avery Fisher Award, is given on the basis of performances over a long period rather than at a contest; and last month he took up the directorship of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Meanwhile, tenured professors have gained greater freedom to pursue their own research interests—in the vain hope that Nobel Prizes may be won, prestigious research grants awarded and endowments bolstered.
Students submit an artistic portfolio for consideration, and a generous endowment awards first place $5,000, second prize $3,000, third prize $2,000, and honorable mention $1,000.
William Eddins, the resident conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been awarded the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, a $50,000 career-development grant for American conductors.
In theory, the institutions to whom the endowment awards grants could turn around and commission artists to make edgy work.
