John Lewis Gaddis, Richard Gilder, and Lewis Lehrman Receive National Humanities Medals
A Yale University professor and the two co-founders of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale were among 11 Americans who received 2005 National Humanities Medals during a White House ceremony Thursday. They are John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science at Yale, and Yale alumni Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman.
Gaddis is a prominent historian of the Cold War who teaches Cold War history, strategy, international studies and biography at Yale.
Gilder and Lehrman founded the center in 1998. They also are co-founders and co-chairman of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which promotes the study of American History.
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc., which solicits and administers gifts to support UConn, has elected five new directors.
They are Theresa A. Bischoff of New York City, who is chief executive officer of the American Red Cross for Greater New York; Kelvin Cooper of East Lyme, who is senior vice president of Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Inc.; Kathleen A. Murphy of Glastonbury, who is group president of ING's U.S. Worksite and Institutional Financial Services division; Sharon L. Nunes of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., who is vice president of business development and productivity in IBM's Systems & Technology Group and John L. Ritter of West Hartford, executive vice president and secretary of First New England Capital, a direct investment capital firm.
The foundation has more than $343 million in total assets.
Gaddis is a prominent historian of the Cold War who teaches Cold War history, strategy, international studies and biography at Yale.
Gilder and Lehrman founded the center in 1998. They also are co-founders and co-chairman of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which promotes the study of American History.
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc., which solicits and administers gifts to support UConn, has elected five new directors.
They are Theresa A. Bischoff of New York City, who is chief executive officer of the American Red Cross for Greater New York; Kelvin Cooper of East Lyme, who is senior vice president of Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences at Pfizer Inc.; Kathleen A. Murphy of Glastonbury, who is group president of ING's U.S. Worksite and Institutional Financial Services division; Sharon L. Nunes of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., who is vice president of business development and productivity in IBM's Systems & Technology Group and John L. Ritter of West Hartford, executive vice president and secretary of First New England Capital, a direct investment capital firm.
The foundation has more than $343 million in total assets.