Mr. Newton, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa, was one of the first three recipients in Iowa of a Matthew Shepard scholarship.
The first three recipients of the 50,000 francs (about 7600 euros) annual prize were announced in November, included an association for women in maths, an association lead by women that creates unconventional educational materials for youth, and an association that promotes the discovery of chemistry for children and adolescents.
There is now general agreement in the press concerning the first two recipients, but the identity of the third recipient is still in dispute.
On June 9, Dr. Elizabeth C. Burton, a pathologist at Baylor, called the disease control center for help in solving the puzzle of why the first two recipients had died.
The National Endowment for the Arts said on Tuesday that it was establishing yearly Opera Honors awards, and named the first four recipients: James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera's music director; the soprano Leontyne Price; the composer Carlisle Floyd and Richard Gaddess, the general director of the Santa Fe Opera.
A media circus grew up around the first four recipients of artificial hearts, especially Barney Clark and Bill Schroeder, both of whom received the Jarvik-7, a device that required that they be permanently attached to a refrigerator-sized machine.
The National Endowment for the Arts announced Tuesday that it was establishing yearly Opera Honors awards and named the first four recipients (right, from top): James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera's music director; the soprano Leontyne Price; the composer Carlisle Floyd and Richard Gaddess, general director of the Santa Fe Opera.
If there was a moment when Mr. Taylor felt he had arrived -- and he hesitates to pinpoint one -- it may have been the summer of 1990, when he was among the first four recipients of the Gilmore Young Artist Award, a scholarship for promising American pianists.
OpenFeint and The9 also announced that they have selected the first five recipients of funding from their Android Porting initiative.
I am pleased to announce that the first eight recipients of the ONES awards have already been selected.
Two of the first five loan recipients include Fannie Lucille, a fashion design company, and Max Beef, a restaurant located in a struggling area of Flint.
