[Physics opps] FW: Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics

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From: Deborah Rosencrans <mailto:castor at MIT.EDU>  
: Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics


 

Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics Essay Contest

 

 

For those that do not know, Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Nazi death
camp in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was a journalist and he is a writer,
professor and a truly values human life. 

"In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the
President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the Founding
Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He is also the
Founding President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of Cultures and the
Chairman of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization he and
his wife created to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice. Elie
Wiesel has received more than 100 honorary degrees from institutions of
higher learning.

 

A devoted supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of
Soviet Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's Desaparecidos,
Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in Africa, of
apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former Yugoslavia. For
more than ten years, Elie and his wife Marion have been especially devoted
to the cause of Ethiopian-born Israeli youth through the Foundation's Beit
Tzipora Centers for Study and Enrichment.

 

For his literary and human rights activities, he has received numerous
awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional
Gold Medal and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in
the French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for
Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Wiesel established The Elie Wiesel
Foundation for Humanity." (http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org)

 

Please encourage juniors and seniors to apply for this prestigious prize in
ethics essay contest: http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org
<http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/>  deadline is December 19, 2008.

 

I do not believe there has been an MIT winner, I could be wrong.

Tomorrow is Elie Wiesel's 80th Birthday!
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/elie-wiesel-reflects-on-turning
-80/?hp

 

 

Thanks,

Deborah

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Deborah S. Rosencrans

Assistant Director, Internship Programs

Global Education and Career Development Center

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Building 12-170

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Cambridge, MA 02139

TEL: 617-253-4733

FAX: 617-253-8457

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