1998-
Wellington
New Zealand
Hunter Building
VICTORIA
UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON
The
fifteenth World Award Ceremony presented by the World Cultural
Council was hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, and
celebrated in the Hunter Building.
The
Award Ceremony was presided by distinguished authorities of Victoria
University,
among them the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Michael Irving; Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
Prof. Roy Sharp; Deans of the Faculties of Sciences and Humanities;
the President of the World Cultural Council, Dr. José Rafael
Estrada and the Secretary General, Dr. Esteban Meszaros Wild.
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| Prof.
Robert Yager Winner of the José Vasconcelos World
Award of Education and Prof. Charles Goldman Winner
of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science . |
Prof.
Charles R. Goldman, Professor of limnology of the Department
of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California,
Davis, USA received this award in particular for his productive
research work for more than 39 years on Lake
Tahoe, and it was the environmental research program which
he both created and sustained that prompted members of the international
scientific community to honour him.
After
Prof. Goldman received the award he said, very moved: “It
is incredible that I have had this outstanding honour. I
never expected that a limnologist would even qualify for an award
bearing the name of a real genius like Albert Einstein,
who had such an incredible impact on human endeavour”.
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| The
Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Michael Irving delivering the José
Vasconcelos World Award of Education to Prof. Robert Yager. |
Prof.
Robert Yager winner of the José Vasconcelos Award,
began his career at the University of Iowa as an Instructor and
Acting Head of the Science Education program in 1956. For over
42 years he has built up one of the largest and most productive
centres in the world. Graduates of the Iowa program can be found
across the United States and at major teacher training and research
institutions around the world. He has also been very active in
terms of curricular reforms in science, genuinely changing the
direction of science teaching and learning at all levels.
“I
am honoured and humbled listening to these things. 42 years seemed
to have slipped by very, very quickly. I find myself in the company
of five others receiving this award, and it has made me to want
to look at some of things that José Vasconcelos did”.
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| The
Award Ceremony was presided by distinguished authorities
of the Victoria University, among them the Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
Prof. Roy Sharp; Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Prof.
Peter Englert; Prof. Charles Goldman Winner of
the Albert Einstein World Award of Science; the
President of the World Cultural Council Dr. José
Rafael Estrada; the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Michael Irving;
Prof. Robert Yager Winner of the José
Vasconcelos World Award of Education; Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. David
Mackay; and by the Secretary General, Dr. Esteban Meszaros
Wild. |
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