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Five Paramount High School students have been selected as Gates Millennium Scholars — a rare achievement among high schools.

Five Gates Millennium Scholars Selected From Paramount High School Five Paramount High School students have been selected as Gates Millennium Scholars — a rare achievement among high schools.

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BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

With support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the three - year project will empower developing counties to advocate for universal access to reproductive health as a critical component in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in health through increased funding, an improved policy environment and increased visibility for family planning at the local, national and global levels.

Clockwise from top: Downtown Vancouver as seen from above False Creek, The University of British Columbia, Lions Gate Bridge, a view from the Granville Street Bridge, Burrard Bridge, The Millennium Gate -LRB--RRB-, and totem poles in Stanley Park

As an undergraduate at Penn State, she was a recipient of the Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship — a full scholarship for minorities based on academic merit.

It dates from Anish Kapoor's breakthrough using this medium of hyper - reflective polished steel and was created in a decade that witnessed Kapoor winning the Premio Duemilia Prize for his British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1990); winning the Turner Prize (1991); staging a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery (1998); and becoming a Royal Academician (1999), Untitled is central to the technical and artistic advancement that later led to such highly lauded monumental projects as Cloud Gate of 2004 for Chicago's Millennium Park, and Sky Mirror of 2006 at New York's Rockefeller Center.

It should come as no surprise, then, that he is one of the best - loved artists working today, the recipient of numerous international awards (including the Turner Prize) and the creative force behind some of the most popular public sculptures in contemporary art, including Marsyas in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (2002) and Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park (2004).

The Indian - born British sculptor Anish Kapoor is known for his spectacular sculptures and installations, such as the Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago.

Most visitors get a taste of it at Millennium Park, home to Anish Kapoor's famous reflective silver Cloud Gate (2006; also known as the «Bean»), but public art is visible all around the city, on the many open plazas in front of office and municipal buildings.

Famous for his major city installations, his most notable pieces include Cloud Gate (best known as «The Bean») in Millennium Park, Chicago and Sky Mirror, a temporary public project at Rockefeller Center, New York.

He is well known for his use of rich pigment and imposing, yet popular works, such as the vast, fleshy and trumpet - like Marsyas, which filled the Tate's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series, the giant reflecting, pod like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London.

Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (colloquially known as «the Bean») in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; [4] Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, [5] at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.

Anish Kapoor (b. 1954) India - born British abstract sculptor, winner of Turner Prize, noted for large - scale public works in rough hewn stone, cast metal and stainless steel, such as Cloud Gate (2006) in the AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park, Chicago.

But the Origin Millennium's score of 39,759 in Cloud Gate crushes everything else we've tested to date — as it should, given that configuration's nearly $ 7,000 price.