[bioundgrd] Fwd: Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics

[Janice Chang]

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>From: "Deborah Rosencrans" <castor at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:27:08 -0400
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>Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize in Ethics Essay Contest
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>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.
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>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.
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>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)
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>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.
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>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>http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/elie-wiesel-reflects-on-turning-80/?hp
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>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
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>TEL: 617-253-4733
>FAX: 617-253-8457
>http://careers.mit.edu/
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