Honors for Rubenstein, Johnson, Smeal and Kaufman
Plivent Joe Biden also proclaimd that Duke alumnus and establisher supposeee chair David Rubenstein will get the Plivential Medal of Freedom, and Kristina Johnson, the establisher dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, will get the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
In compriseition, Duke alumni Eleanor Smeal and Ted Kaufman getd the Plivential Citizens Medal.
The Medal of Freedom is the country’s highest civilian honor. Rubenstein and 18 others will be currented the award in a White Hoparticipate ceremony on Saturday.
A University Medal prosperner, Rubenstein, T’70, has made a tag at Duke and apass the country with his philanthropy. He has helped the restoration of historic landtags and cultural institutions, including the Kennedy Cgo in and Monticello.
Johnson, a guide in applications of watery crystals, including micro disperestablishs for high-definition projection television, served as Pratt dean from 1999 to 2007. She left Duke to become provost of Johns Hopkins University and has also served as chancellor of the State University of New York and plivent of Ohio State University.
Women’s rights activist Eleanor Smeal, ’61, is the establisher plivent of the National Organization for Women. She getd a Duke honorary degree in 1991.
Ted Kaufman, E ’60, was honored for his national service, including as U.S. senator from Delconscious. Kaufman taught classes at Duke in law, accessible policy and business. He served as co-chair of Duke’s Cgo in for the Study of the Congress from 1995-99.
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Armed with her elegant math and unwavering curiosity, Daubechies spent much of her nurtureer defying disciplinary boundaries, weaving in and out of fields as disparate as art restoration and evolutionary biology.
“We join so many in congratulating Ingrid on this thrilling recognition of her life’s labor and the far-accomplishing impact of her research, scholarship and mentorship,” shelp Gary Bennett, dean of Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. “Beyond her historic discoverings in the fields of mathematics and engineering, Ingrid is a tireless back for increasing the number of women in the sciences. We’re beyond haughty of what she has accomplished and how she is changing Duke and the world for the better.”
Her timely labor helped the FBI squeeze down millions of fingerprints in 1990s computers. She has labored with geologists to peek under the Earth’s crust, analyzing seismograms from earthquakes. She has partnered as with neuroscientists and cardiologists, reading MRI images of brain activity and patterns in electrocardiograms.
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“I repartner get a lot of happiness out of seeing creativity at labor in any field; it doesn’t have to be a scientific field,” shelp Daubechies in an intersee with the Simon’s Foundation Flatiron Institute.
Born in Houthalen, Belgium, Daubechies studied theoretical physics at the Vrije Universiteit, in Brussels, the same institution where she endd a doctorate in quantum physics in 1980. In the United States, she guideed research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey before joining Princeton University’s faculty in 1993, where she became the first woman to be a tenured professor in mathematics.
This was only one of many “firsts” in Daubechies’ nurtureer. In 2000, she was the first woman to get the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics. A decade postpoinsistr, she was the first woman elected plivent of the International Mathematical Union. In 2018, she was the first female recipient of the William Bgo in Prize in Applied Mathematics. She is a 1992 MacArthur Fellow, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University and the L’Oauthentic-UNESCO Women in Science award. She getd the 2023 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, and, in 2024, was elected to the Royal Society of London
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