This award is given to recognize individuals for their outstanding technical achievement and leadership.
For foreigners, the award tends to be a big deal, and it has often been given to recognize Americans in the arts.
This $5,000 award was given to recognize Lee's deep and sustained commitment to the environment, which has been apparent throughout her three years at Columbia University.
The Great Negotiator Award is given to recognize an individual whose lifetime achievements in the field of negotiation and dispute resolution have had a significant and lasting impact.
In 1998, the Committee on State Funding of Elections, headed by the late Indrajit Gupta, a veteran Communist leader, and included now-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as one of its members, suggested that funds be given to "recognized" national and state-level political parties.
The Tucker Award is given to recognize superior work and scholarship in the characterization, development and/or use of semiconductor, magnetic, optical or electronic materials by a graduate student or students pursuing such areas of inquiry.
Both the White Plains office of the New York law firm Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker and the Women's Justice Center of Pace University will receive the first annual Family-Friendly Employment Policy Award, given to recognize those who ensure that "lawyers can take care of their families and have careers," said Kathy N. Rosenthal, the bar association president and a lawyer in Elmsford.
This is the 10th year that the O'Neill Center, a 46-year-old hub for the development of new plays and musicals, will present its Monte Cristo Award, given to recognize a distinguished career that, according to the center's Web site (theoneill.org), exemplifies its "standard of excellence and pioneering spirit".
Johnnie Walker will give a VIP Johnnie Walker Experience to the winner of the Keep Walking Award, an award given to recognize individuals who demonstrate they will not be defined by what they've done, but rather by what lies ahead.
At the conclusion of the 1996 97 season, Breslin was awarded the I. John Snider trophy as IHL Man of the Year, an award given to recognize outstanding community service.
