Marcia Rieke, a scientist who worked on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope, has received the Gruber Foundation’s 2024 Cosmology Prize. Rieke will receive the award and gold laureate pin at a ceremony August 8, 2024, at the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Cape Town, South Africa. Rieke was awarded the prize “for...
October 8, 2010 The Nation Institute announced today that Planned Parenthood president, Cecile Richards, and author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben have both been chosen to receive the annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. This is the first year the prize has been awarded to two winners. McKibben and Richards will receive the...
December 13, 2011 “American playwright Tony Kushner has donated $100,000 in prize money to the university whose board originally blocked a decision to award him an honorary degree earlier this year. In May, John Jay College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), was initially prevented from honouring Kushner following criticism from one of the university’s...
December 15, 2011 Nation Institute Tony Kushner Makes the News Posted by Jayati Vora, December 7, 2011 to the Nation Institute Blog JOHN MUNSON Neal Rosenstein (left), of the Puffin Foundation, presents the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship to Tony Kushner (right) at The Nation Institute’s annual dinner gala, December 5, 2011 It’s big news when Tony...
November 19, 2012 Benjamin Todd Jealous Announced as Winner of the 2012 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship Prize Recognizes NAACP’s Leadership In Civil and Human Rights Movement; Efforts to “Rebrand” Civil Rights for a New Era November 15, 2012 (New York, NY): The Nation Institute and The Puffin Foundation announced today that Benjamin Todd Jealous...
March 13, 2013 United We Dream wins ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism “Undocumented and Unafraid”: DREAMers Network Tapped for Human Rights Award New York — On May 5, 2013 the third Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will be presented in New York City to United We Dream (UWD), a national network of youth-led...
April 27, 2014 The Lincoln Brigade Continues Bending the Arc Towards Justice Bryan Stevenson New York — On Sunday, April 27, 2014, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) will present the fourth ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to Bryan Stevenson, the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. ALBA and the Puffin Foundation, which...
John Koskinen and William Ruckelshaus to Receive “Elliott L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public Service Post Date: March 01, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration (the Academy) today announced that John Koskinen and William D. Ruckelshaus will receive the Elliot L. Richardson Prize for Excellence in Public...
December 8, 2015 Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II, volunteer President of the North Carolina NAACP, is the winner of the 2015 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. The award will be presented to Rev. Barber at The Nation Institute’s Annual Gala Dinner on December 8 in New York City. Reverend Barber — who pastors Greenleaf Christian Church, a 120-year-old...
February 12, 2016 Fearless, Border-Crossing Journalists Expose Corruption at the Highest Levels: Lydia Cacho (Mexico) and Jeremy Scahill (USA) Win Human Rights Award New York—On Saturday, May 7, 2016, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) will present the ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism to journalists Lydia Cacho and Jeremy Scahill. One of the...