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The Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal honors
Fulbright alumni whose distinguished careers and civic and cultural
contributions have sought to expand the boundaries of human wisdom,
empathy, and perception. Recipients of the Medal show exemplary
commitments to creative leadership and liberal education. |
2009 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Recipients
2009 | Rita Dove,
former poet laureate of the United States, Philip Glass, composer and musician,
John Maguire, president emeritus of Claremont Graduate University, and Ruth
Owades, entrepreneur and corporate director, will be honored on May 12, 2009 at
the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal Dinner in Washington, D.C.
Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal
Recipients 2000-2007
2007 |
Craig R. Barrett, chairman of Intel Corporation, John Hope Franklin, James B.
Duke professor emeritus of history at Duke University and recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Shirley Strum Kenny, president of Stony Brook
University, were honored with 2007 Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medals on March
8, 2007 at the Fulbright Association’s 30th anniversary dinner in
Washington, D.C.
2005 | 2005
Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medals were awarded to Rita Hauser, president of
the Hauser Foundation, New York, N.Y., and former member of the President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board; John
Mendelsohn, president of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,
Houston Texas; and Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, president and CEO of Strategic
Investment Group, Arlington, Va., and chairman of the Washington National Opera
Executive Committee, on May 17, 2005, in Washington, D.C.
2002 | On March 6,
2002, the Fulbright Association honored with Fulbright Lifetime Achievement
Medals three distinguished Fulbright alumni: Jean-Pierre Garnier, chief
executive officer of GlaxoSmithKline; Thomas Pickering, former under-secretary
of state for political affairs; and Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University.
2000 | The inaugural
Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medals were awarded at a special ceremony in New
York City on October 30, 2000, to Arlene Alda, an author, photographer, and
musician; Barbara Knowles Debs, former president of Manhattanville College and
of the New York Historical Society; and Richard A. Debs, founding president of
Morgan Stanley International.
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