- Erasmus Prize 2009 Awarded to Antonio Cassese and Benjamin Ferencz
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (Amsterdam) has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2009 to two jurists of world renown, the Italian Antonio Cassese and the American Benjamin Ferencz.
The Prize is awarded annually to a person who, within the cultural traditions of Europe, has made an especially important [...]
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Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced the acquisition of the publishing assets of William Andrew, Inc. (“William Andrew”). Over the last 18 months, Elsevier and William Andrew have built a valuable strategic alliance including print distribution of William Andrew books globally outside of North America [...]
“The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” a four-movement concerto for violin and orchestra by Australian composer Brett Dean, has earned the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
The work, commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonie and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman, was chosen for the prize from among 145 entries [...]
GlobalEnglish Corporation , the leading provider of on-demand learning and support for business English communication, announced the opening of GlobalExchanges EMEA 2008 at the Hotel Okura Amsterdam. Executives from Abbott, ArcelorMittal, Compass Group, Generali, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Raiffeisenbank, StatoilHydro, and others will convene in Amsterdam to share best practices for managing the challenges and opportunities created by [...]
The City Contemporary Dance Company (CCDC) from Hong Kong, internationally renowned for its “vibrant sense of theatre and strong visual imagery” (Washington Post) and “beautifully trained and good-looking young dancers” (New York Times) will appear in an exclusive U.S. engagement next month at Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in lower Manhattan. Curtain [...]
Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that Procedures Consult (http://www.proceduresconsult.com) – an online, multimedia procedures training and reference tool for medical students and residents – has partnered with MyEvaluations.com, a leading medical education training management service provider, to enhance residency training in medical procedures.
MyEvaluations.com uses patented [...]
Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF) and New York University Stern School of Business (NYU Stern) are partnering to launch the Executive Master of Science in Risk Management, an innovative, global executive degree program in risk management. This alliance connects two of the world’s financial centers and provides a firm response to the current financial turmoil. [...]