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Frank Annunzio Awards 2001
Frank Annunzio Award Scholars
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation is honored to have awarded the achievements of the following 2001 Frank Annunzio Award scholars:Arts/Humanities Field
Michael Graves
Mr.
Michael Graves, Architect, President and Principal, Michael Graves & Associates
in Princeton, NJ, was awarded the $50,000
Frank Annunzio Award in the Arts/Humanities field
in October 2001. As a leading contemporary architect, Mr. Graves
has helped influence the transformation of architecture from abstract
modernism toward more contextual and traditional themes since the
1980s. He has created buildings that are profoundly sensitive to
their surroundings and he designs at every scale, from master-planning
to the smallest details.
He taught architecture at Princeton University for almost 40 years, and he is an influential theorist as well as a diversified and prolific designer. Michael Graves has been in the forefront of architectural design since he began his practice in Princeton in 1964.
Mr. Graves has dubbed himself "a general practitioner," designing not only the interiors for the majority of his projects, but also a wide range of furnishings and artifacts, from furniture and lighting fixtures to jewelry and dinnerware, for companies such as Alessi, Steuben, Disney, Phillips Electronics and Black & Decker. He has teamed with Target Stores to bring his signature style of product design to a larger public.
Notable projects include: The Humana Building in Louisville, KY, the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotels in Orlando, FL, and the Denver Central Library in Colorado. He recently completed the World Banks' International Finance Corporation Headquarters in Washington, DC and the headquarters for the National Collegiate Athletic Association in Indianapolis, IN. He is currently working on the expansion of the United States Courthouse, and the United States Embassy in Seoul, Korea.
Humanitarian Field
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Dr.
Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, was awarded
the 2001 $50,000 Frank Annunzio Award in
the Humanitarian field in October.
From the early 1970s to the present, Dr. Fauci has been internationally
recognized as the world's leading researcher in the study of host
defense mechanisms against infectious diseases and the immunopathogenesis
of certain immune-mediated diseases, having made many contributions
to basic and clinical research.
Dr. Fauci has pioneered the field of human immunoregulation by making a number of basic scientific observations that serve as the basis for current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response. In addition, Dr. Fauci is widely recognized for delineating the precise mechanisms whereby immunosuppressive agents modulate the human immune response. He has developed effective therapies for formerly fatal diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener's granulomatosis and lymphomatoid granulomatosis.
Dr. Fauci has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the AIDS virus destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections. He has also delineated the mechanisms of induction of HIV expression by endogenous cytokines. Furthermore, he has been instrumental in developing strategies for the therapy and immune reconstitution of patients with this serious disease as well as for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection. He continues to devote much of his research time to identifying the nature of the immunopathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection and the scope of the body's immune responses to the AIDS retrovirus.
Additionally, Dr. Fauci is the current leading spokesman on the threat of anthrax and small pox in this country.
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