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Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky is an honoree for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature.
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.
Thornberg & Forester Paint Explosion for Vilcek
Motion studio Thornberg & Forester partnered with production company Valiant...
Dan Littman: A Pioneer in Immunology
Dan Littman has been an explorer since childhood. A prominent immunologist at NYU’s Skirball Institute and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dan was born in Bucharest when Romania was a part of the Soviet bloc.
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu receives the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature for his celebrated writings that explore the themes of alienation and human connection among immigrants in America.
Ellie Foumbi explores the demons wrought by trauma in “Our Father, The Devil”
The Vilcek Foundation debuts Ellie Foumbi’s feature "Our Father, The Devil" as part of the New American Perspectives program at HIFF 2022.
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.
Sarah Benson: Cultural Dislocation in Theatre
As an immigrant from the United Kingdom, Sarah Benson understands cultural dislocation: “There wasn’t a language barrier,” she says, “but there was a completely different set of cultural assumptions.
Titia de Lange
Titia de Lange receives the Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science for seminal contributions to the biology of telomeres—the aiglet-like structures that protect the ends of chromosomes in living cells—and for discovering telomere-binding proteins that help ensure genome stability and prevent tumor formation.
A Major New Awards Program Honors American Visionaries and Innovators
Today Jan T. Vilcek and Marica F. Vilcek, co-founders of The Vilcek Foundation, announced the creation of a major new annual awards program designed to honor foreign-born Americans who have made extraordinary contributions to society in the arts and biomedical research since immigrating to these shores.