World Academy of Art & Science

President-Emeritus, Walter Truett Anderson, is the 2010 recipient of the Don M. Michael Award in recognition of his work as a political scientist and author.

Congratulations, Walt, from us all!

Outstanding Service Award to Patrick Mendis

The US Department of Agriculture presented the USDA Graduate School's Outstanding Service Award to Patrick Mendis who served as a member of its Governing Board. It was a four-year appointment by the US Secretary of Agriculture.

Ivo Slaus honored at Board Meeting

At this year’s meeting of the WAAS Board of Trustees, held at the Vallombrosa Retreat Center in California, Prof. Ivo Slaus of Croatia was honored for his outstanding contributions to the Academy as chair of the organizing committee for the 2005 General Assembly and founder of the South Eastern Europe Division (SEED). The citation also identified him as embodying “The Spirit of Zagreb” and for “Leadership in Thought which Leads to Action.”

Jasjit Singh was a 2006 recipient of the Padma Bhushan, a decoration established in 1954 by the president of India and given for distinguished service of high order in any field. Air Commodore (Ret) Singh is a former director of operations of the Indian Air Force and former director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses(IDSA). He has published extensively and is the author and editor of more than two dozen books on strategic and security issues of South Asia. He is currently active in the Academy’s program on nuclear disarmament.

James Hughes is chair and principal organizer of a conference on “Human Enhancement Technologies and Human Rights,” which will take place May 26-28 at the Stanford University Law School. The conference will “seek to begin a conversation with the human rights community, bioethicists, legal scholars, and political activists about the relationship of enhancement technologies to human rights, cognitive liberty and bodily autonomy.” Contact: director@ ieet.org.

Calestous Juma was the featured speaker at this year’s John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture, held annually at Iowa State University. Dr.Juma, who is professor of the practice of development and director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard University, spoke on “Reinventing African Economies: Technological Innovation and the Sustainability Transition,”

Steven Walther has been appointed as a Democratic member of the U. S. Government’s FederalElections Commission, the six-member body responsible for administering and enforcing the Federal Election Campaign Act which regulates the financing of campaigns for President, Senate, and House of Representatives. By law no more than three commissioners can be members of one political party. Mr.Walther, a founding partner of the Nevada law firm of Walther, Key, Maupin, Cox and LeGoy, has been actively involved in the creation of the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, and the development of its Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI).

Jack Trevors of the Department of Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph has been elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation.

Marc Luyckx, director of the think tank 2020 Vision in Brussels and former member of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, has been appointed dean of studies in the new CBA Business School located in Zagreb. The school has been created partly with the assistance of the World Business Academy based in California, of which Dr. Luyckx is a fellow. CBA intends to be among the first “new paradigm” business schools in the European Union, preparing students for the new business model which builds on corporate social responsibility, sustainability and sustainable growth, the increasing importance of human capital, and the personal and spiritual growth of leadership. In announcing his new appointment, Dr. Luyckx writes: “We are indeed entering a knowledge society, post-capitalist and post-industrial. The issue today is not to have the newest, best, and cheapest technology. It is rather to be able to invent the new business practices and structures of management that correspond to this new society. Our dream, in CBA Business School, is to be in front of the wave.”