By Savannah Bullard After two days of live competitions, two teams from southern California are heading home with a combined $1.5 million from NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge. Since 2020, competitors from around the world have competed in this challenge with the common goal of inventing robots that can excavate and transport the icy regolith on the Moon. The...
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...
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...
July 31, 2018
Puffin is a proud supporter of the non-partisan voter registration and education work undertaken by the Andrew Goodman Foundation. You can learn more about an important victory for student voting rights in Florida in this Washington Post story here.
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November 30, 2018 The Parkland Student Activists are the winners of the 2018 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship. The Students, in partnership with young activists across the country, founded the March for Our Lives to end gun violence and challenge the complacency of lawmakers. March organizers David Hogg, Jaclyn Corin, Delaney Tarr, and Ramon Contreras will...
Written by the CSA Zero Trust Working Group Co-Chairs: Jason Garbis, Jerry Chapman, and Christopher Steffen. In our roles as co-chairs, we spend a lot of time and energy talking with enterprises and promoting the idea that Zero Trust needs to be more than just a security initiative – it has to deliver business value in addition to improving security. For security...
By keeping the Senate in session a mere 2.5 days a week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is allowing vulnerable Democrats four extra days a week to hit the campaign trail. Senate Republicans have a historic majority advantage, with only eight seats to defend to Democrats’ 23. Will McConnell’s lazy Senate be enough to waste it? CPI’s Rachel Bovard writes in The Hill...
When the Senate ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on September 21 by a vote of 69 to 27, twenty-one Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues in adopting an international environmental treaty for the first time in three decades. This support demonstrates the importance of bipartisan congressional action to achieve meaningful international...
The Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film celebrated its anniversary year at the 25th Chlotrudis Awards, held at the Brattle Theater this past Sunday. The big winner of the night was Hirokazu Kore-eda’s SHOPLIFTERS which won 4 Trudies, for Best Movie, Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. In addition, Chlotrudis made two special...
Banking has long been recognised as one of the sectors with the most mature and collaborative approaches to cyber security. But it also remains constantly under threat, as hackers rapidly adopt emerging technologies to find new ways to breach defences. According to Bill Borden, corporate vice-president of worldwide financial services for Microsoft, this presents...