Past News
Celebrating the Pride of our Nation
The Carnegie Corporation of New York joins us in celebrating immigrants with their annual Fourth of July "Immigrants: The Pride of America" ad.
read full article >Transcript of Francine Prose's speech
Francine Prose presents the recipients of the 2011 Vilcek Prize in Literature during the Vilcek Foundation's annual awards dinner.
read full article >Transcript of Maria Freire's speech
Remarks by Maria Freire, Ph.D., at the 2011 Vilcek Foundation award ceremony.
read full article >Vilcek Prizes Honor Excellence in Biomedical Science and the Arts: 2011 Recipients Announced
Awards season at the Vilcek Foundation is always an exciting time, especially after our hardworking selection juries, after months of research and deliberation, release the names of the recipients of our annual prizes - the Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science, the Vilcek Prize for the Arts, this year given in Literature, and the Creative Promise prizes in the same categories.
read full article >Vilcek Foundation grant supports NPR “From the Top” program
Congratulations to 17-year-old percussionist Marcelina Suchocka, Grand Prize Winner of Big Break, an online competition sponsored by From the Top and Carnegie Hall for America’s young classical musicians. Selected by the public from hundreds of entrants, Ms. Suchocka’s success earned her a spot on NPR’s “From the Top” national radio broadcast, to be taped Sunday, April 10, before a studio audience at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, funded by a $20,000 project grant from the Vilcek Foundation.
read full article >Caring and Advocating for Torture Survivors
Not even some of the worst winter weather in New York City history deterred the stalwart from attending a riveting lecture by Dr. Allen Keller, Founder and Director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT), hosted by the Vilcek Foundation on January 26th at the Bohemian National Hall and Czech Center.
read full article >The Vilcek Foundation Turns 10!
We are celebrating the Vilcek Foundation’s 10th birthday, and invite you to join us as we reminisce a little-admittedly with some pride-about a number of the events and exhibits of the recent past that symbolize both our ongoing mission and the decade of growth in our programs and outreach.
read full article >Transcript of David Baltimore's Speech
David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and President Emeritus of California Institute of Technology, introduces the 2010 Vilcek Foundation Prizes in Biomedical Science during the Vilcek Foundation’s fifth annual awards dinner.
read full article >The Vilcek Foundation Announces the 2010 Vilcek Foundation Prize Recipients
The Vilcek Foundation Announces the 2010 Vilcek Foundation Prize Recipients
read full article >The Vilcek Foundation Mourns Passing of Jeanne-Claude
The Vilcek Foundation Mourns Passing of Jeanne-Claude
read full article >The Vilcek Foundation has a new commercial and a new Facebook page
The Vilcek Foundation has a new commercial and a new Facebook page
read full article >Transcript of Ara Guzelimian’s speech
Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean of the Juilliard School, presents 2008 Vilcek Prize in the arts to Osvaldo Golijov during the Vilcek Foundation's third annual awards dinner
read full article >Transcript of Ellis Rubinstein’s speech
Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, presents 2008 Vilcek Prize in biomedical research to Dr. Inder Verma during the Vilcek Foundation's third annual awards dinner
read full article >Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts honors the Vilcek Foundation
Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts honors the Vilcek Foundation
read full article >American Immigrant Filmmakers Profiled at Hawaii International Film Festival
The Vilcek Foundation Supports 2007 Hawaiian International Film Festival
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Congratulations to Ukrainian-born artist Irina Danilova! Her new-media works are the first to appear in our brand-new digital art space, the dARTboard. Click on by and see for yourself.
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2012 Vilcek Prizes
We applaud the recipients of the seventh annual Vilcek Prizes: Carlos Bustamante, PhD, winner of the Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, winner of the Vilcek Prize for Dance. We salute, too, Creative Promise Prize winners, Alice Ting, PhD, for Biomedical Science, and Michel Kouakou, for Dance.
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Upcoming Events
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