Sentences with phrase «presidential medal»

In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Brokaw with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

(In 2014, President Obama awarded Mikva the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor.)

, physicist Stephen Hawking and the president of the National Academy of Sciences, Ralph Cicerone — to nominate him for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the country's highest civilian honor — on 15 individuals, including artist Jasper Johns and cellist Yo - Yo Ma.

He received the Presidential Medal from William Jefferson Clinton in December 2000 as a National Endowment for the Humanities recipient.

In 2000, Driskell was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Presidential Medal for lifetime achievement in the arts and humanities by President Bill Clinton.

Before Johns received the award, it was last awarded to a visual artist in 1977 when Alexander Calder was granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by president Gerald Ford.

Because of the contribution Johns has made to further arts and culture through this initiative and his own work, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of freedom by president Barack Obama in 2011.

-- 1964 — Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Jasper Johns is a central figure in modern and contemporary art.

In 1977 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States» highest civilian honour, by President Gerald Ford.

In 2013, the artist was awarded the Presidential Medal of the Italian Republic.

In 2011 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States» highest civilian honour, from President Obama.

[29] On February 15, 2011 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, becoming the first painter or sculptor to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom since Alexander Calder in 1977.

Johns has received many honors throughout his career, including receipt of the National Medal of Arts in 1990, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

[2] Calder was honored by the US Postal Service with a set of five 32 - cent stamps in 1998, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, posthumously in 1977, after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford one year earlier in protest of the Vietnam War.

De Kooning was awarded many honors in his lifetime, including The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

As a Grand Prize winner at the Venice Biennale in 1988, the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1997, and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, he has become one of the most beloved and celebrated modern American artists.

He has won multiple awards, including a MacArthur Genius Grant, two Tony Awards, a Kennedy Center honor in 2010 and a Presidential Medal of the Arts in 2013.

He was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2011.

On Tuesday, November 22, Maya Lin will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor.

You know he deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but will never get it.

In 1964 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

This monograph reproduces sculptures and works on paper completed over the last five years by Jasper Johns (born 1930), who in February 2011 became the first visual artist to receive a Presidential Medal of Honor since 1977.

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Frank Gehry and Maya Lin receive Presidential Medal of Freedom President Obama has announced that architect Frank Gehry and artist and designer Maya Lin are among the individuals who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Lin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2005 and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and most recently the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President Barack Obama in 2016.

In 2011, Johns became the first artist since 1978 to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

President Barack Obama presents a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to American artist Jasper Johns, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Help us honor 15 women for their courage and contribution to the civil rights movement by awarding them with the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

[131] In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Last week, shortly after Summitt retired from coaching, the White House announced that she would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

She was awarded numerous literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 2012, Morrison received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2016 she received the PEN / Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.

-- Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D., Apollo 14 Astronaut (the sixth person to walk on the moon), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Data from the Kepler Space Observatory indicates that our galaxy is home to some 40 billion «earth - like» planets.

Twice winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. McCullough came to Indianapolis to discuss his new book, The Wright Brothers, and the importance of innovation throughout history.

In 2000, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.

Today, about four hours ago, President Obama — the White House — released an official document naming Minoru Yasui as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year.»

They also connected with the Minoru Yasui Tribute Project, which encouraged them to write a letter to President Obama, asking him to recognize Yasui with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In 2009 she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor and was nominated for the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder.

She has won five Golden Globes, six Emmys, a Mark Twain Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and a host of other honors throughout her storied career.

He's in a new relationship with Bay's porn - lipped Barbie doll, Carly (Rosie Huntington - Whiteley), who he met while accepting a Presidential Medal of Honor.

Because of his presidential medal does he expect to get a job too easily?

The world is inarguably a better place with 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Ellen Degeneres in it.

Dr. Collins has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science.

But Richard Garwin, a retired IBM physicist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who has long been a technical adviser on nuclear weapons and stockpile surveillance to the Defense Department and the NNSA, said the government had not been transparent enough about the long lapse in testing and production.

In 2005 Cerf (and longtime collaborator Robert Kahn) received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given in the United States, in recognition of work that had placed them «at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment.»

Half a century later most of the wall space in the Earth Policy Institute's small suite of offices is covered with honorary degrees from 23 universities and numerous plaques recording other awards, including a MacArthur Foundation «genius grant,» Italy's Presidential Medal of Honor and a U.N. Environment Prize.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Legion d'Honneur and 29 honorary degrees.