Ms. Mercer, now 24 and living in Manhattan, was happy with her victory and said she would use the award to create a scholarship fund for female kickers.
The Justice Department asserted that Ogilvy did not exercise "reasonable control" in its billing practices for the drug office in 1999 and 2000, the first two years in a five-year contract that Ogilvy was awarded to create antidrug campaigns.
Dresselhaus, who has long championed the cause of women in science, used the $1 million award to create an endowment fund for "women or junior members of the faculty" at MIT.
On the Aacta website, the industry organisation boasts proudly of the awards' ability to "create new career opportunities for Australia's best performers and practitioners".
"The long-term goal of the awards is to create a pipeline of scientific support in which established scientists choose the most outstanding young faculty-rank scientists, who then go on to mentor the next generation of would-be scientists and award winners," said Ellis Rubinstein, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences.
By Indra Kumari Nadchatram Prestigious annual advertising awards seek to create new conversations on the Convention on the Rights of the Child "It is amazing that only 20 years ago there was no universal protection for the rights of children," said 4As member and TBWA Brand Vice President Mr. Jeff Orr.
Casey Patterson, an MTV Networks executive vice president, who is also serving as executive producer of the special, said the broad notion behind the award was to create something like the comedy version of the Irving Thalberg award from the Oscars.
And Outward Bound was awarded $15.8 million to create 20 schools with an expeditionary theme, 8 of them in New York.
The Asia Society was awarded $9.1 million to create 10 schools with an international theme, 3 of them in New York.
In addition, two groups, the Asia Society and Outward Bound, were awarded money to create schools in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, bringing the total amount of the grants announced yesterday to $66.5 million nationwide.
In fall 2000, the BCCF awarded $9 million to create a biotech incubator in Toronto--a long-overdue initiative in the city that boasts the fourth-largest concentration of medical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical activity in North America.
