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Immigration and America: A Nation Divided

Published April 13, 2009 Events Leave a Comment

The national immigration debate will come to the National Road on April 14, 2009 at 7:00 PM when a distinguished panel led by John Quinones, co-anchor or ABC Primetime and award-winning syndicated columnist Cal Thomas assembles on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College, in Washington, PA to discuss and address various economic, social, legal, religious and human rights issues that impact the future of US Immigration policy. Pittsburgh Technology Council President and CEO Audrey Russo will be on the panel.

Immigration and America: A Nation Divided will be the inaugural event in The Great Debate series, an educational forum offered to the public by the National Road Heritage Corridor as means of preserving the history and legacy of Constitutional debate in America. Dr. Arthur Miller, Harvard Law professor and long-time moderator of the award-winning Fred Friendly Seminars on PBS will engage panelists in an lively, interactive, and thought-provoking session that will shed light, as well as heat, onto one of the most polarizing public debates this country’s history.

Panelist joining Russo will include:

John Quinones, co-anchor ABC Primetime

Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist

Don Kerwin, Migration Policy Institute

Lou Barletta, Mayor of Hazleton, PA

Gary Swan, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau

Daryl Metcalfe, PA State Representative (R-Butler)

Sister Janice Vandeneck, CSJ, Lationo Catholic Community

Roy Beck, NumbersUSA

Pedro Paulo Bretz, The Hispanic Center

Molly Wilkinson, General Council Homeland Security

David Harris, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Carnegie Mellon’s Dana Scott Awarded Sobolev Institute Gold Medal

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Tags: CMU, Dana S. Scott, Pittsburgh, Russian Academy of Science, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics

cmu The Russian Academy of Science’s Sobolev Institute of Mathematics has awarded its 2009 Gold Medal for Great Contributions to Mathematics to Dana S. Scott, the Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy and Mathematical Logic, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Scott has made fundamental contributions to contemporary logic and is best known for his creation of domain theory, a branch of mathematics that is essential for analyzing advanced computer programming languages. His previous honors include the Association for Computing Machinery’s Turing Award in 1976 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Science’s Schock Prize in logic and philosophy in 1997, both considered Nobel-level awards.

Scott will receive the Sobolev Gold Medal at the Malt’sev Meeting, an international conference on algebra, mathematical logic and applications, Aug. 24–28 in Novosibirsk, Russia. Also receiving the Gold Medal this year is Igor R. Shafarevich, a Russian mathematician who was a dissident figure under the Soviet regime.

The Gold Medal was established in 2007 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics in Novosibirsk. Two medals are awarded each year — one to a Russian mathematician and one to a non-Russian. Part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, the institute includes about 500 researchers who carry on fundamental investigations in mathematics, mathematical physics and informatics.

Scott has taught at some of the world’s most prestigious universities, including Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, Stanford University and the universities of Chicago, Amsterdam and Linz. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the British Academy. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton.