Present: Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore may have done more than anyone to raise awareness to the detrimental effects of man's energy consumption on the environment, and the imperative to take action.

Past: Creative Rendering of the Past - Literature, Theater, Film

Amos Oz, one of the most widely read Israeli writers in the world, published numerous novels, novellas, short stories, essays, and occasionally even poetry.

Past: Creative Rendering of the Past - Literature, Theater, Film

Atom Egoyan, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is a critically acclaimed and prize winning Canadian-Armenian film maker (director, screenplay writer and editor).

Future: Geosciences

Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, professors at the Ohio State University, are a scientific team. They are pioneers in the use of ice cores from the Polar Regions for paleoclimatic research.

Future: Geosciences

Geoffrey Eglinton revolutionized the identification of molecular structures and determination of chemical histories. 

Past: Creative Rendering of the Past - Literature, Theater, Film

Tom Stoppard established himself as one of the few undisputed masters of the modern stage in 1966 with the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."