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Toni Bowser, Director of IT at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), received the Lois Roth Foundation’s 2021 Ilchman-Richardson Award in recognition of her dedication and creativity in adapting technologies in response to the seismic workplace shifts brought by the pandemic. Her principled leadership led to the multi-year Vision21 Project, permitting ECA to …

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Cultural Affairs Officer Raisa Dukas’s exemplary support of her peers during the pandemic earned her the 2021 Lois Roth Award (Honorable Mention). Based at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, her strategic outreach initiatives to coordinate programs among neighboring posts have had a lasting impact on regional CulturalDiplomacy efforts. Our congratulations, Raisa!

We congratulate the 2021 LoisRoth Award recipient Bill Couch! As Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, he coordinated the repatriation from the Finnish National Museum of the remains of 20 Indigenous People and their funerary objects for reburial in their ancestral home at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Bill’s commitment …

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In collaboration with Fulbright Norway, the Roth Foundation grants an award to an American Fulbrighter in Norway every year. The 2022 award went to Kathleen Maris Paltriner. Kathleen is translating an anthology of ecopoetry to be published in the US where there is a lack of Norwegian poetry in translation. She will translate a total …

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The Roth Foundation extends hearty congratulations to 2015 Ilchman-Richardson Award recipient, Lorie Nierenberg, on her selection for the State Department’s Edward R. Murrow Excellence in Public Diplomacy Award. This prestigious award recognizes Nierenberg’s long service to U.S. educational and cultural diplomacy, at both the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of State. Practitioners of U.S. …

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In celebration of our 35th anniversary this year, we have some exciting announcements to share with you! First and foremost, we are now becoming the LOIS ROTH FOUNDATION—find us at loisrothfoundation.org. Over the years, we have supported many grants, awards, lectures and fellowships in collaboration with universities, embassies and other cultural institutions in the United …

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At its annual awards ceremony in Washington, DC, the Modern Language Association of America presented its MLA-Roth Award for Translation of a Literary Work.  In addition to the award to Clint Bruce, the MLA conferred an honorable mention to Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari for their translation of Fernando Pessoa’s The Complete Works of …

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On January 8, 2022, The Modern Language Association of America presented the MLA-Roth Award for Translation of a Literary Work to Clint Bruce for his translation of Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition, published by the Historic New Orleans Collection with University of Virginia Press. This translation highlights …

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A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation. For 2022, the award was presented to Kathlyn Elliott. Kathlyn is researching the important role of teachers in preventing extremist ideology in Finnish schools. With the Roth-Thomson Award, she will …

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A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson, whom Lois referred to as her Swedish adoptive mother, provides supplementary project support for American Fulbrighters in Sweden every year. The 2022 Roth-Thomson Award was presented to Radhika Purandare. Radhika is conducting research on the inequities in maternal health among immigrant populations in Sweden. She will use the …

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The 2021 Persian Translation Prize, awarded by the American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) to Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Patricia Higgins for their translation of Iraj Pezeshkzad’s historical novel Hafez in Love, perfectly embodies Lois Roth’s conviction of the essential role of literary translation as a vehicle for cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. The translators selected a …

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In celebration of our 35th anniversary, the Roth Foundation is very pleased to welcome Comisión Fulbright del Ecuador as a new Project Support partner for the 2022-23 academic year! With diplomatic relations established in 1825, Ecuador is one of the longest-standing partners of the U.S. in the hemisphere. Fulbright Ecuador is celebrating its 65th anniversary …

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In celebration of our 35th anniversary, the Roth Foundation is very pleased to welcome Comisión Fulbright Uruguay as a new Project Support partner for the 2022-23 academic year! After establishing independence from Argentina and Brazil, Uruguay entered into diplomatic relations with the U.S. in 1867. Since the bilateral Uruguay Fulbright Commission was established in 1960, …

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WE DID IT! Our friends and awardees stepped up and got us over the finish line. Thank you all for helping us meet the MATCHING CHALLENGE sponsored by Roth Foundation founder Dick Arndt. But let’s not stop now! In nearly 35 years, the Roth Foundation has supported and/or honored the contributions of over 425 incredible …

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The Roth Foundation is very pleased to welcome the Moroccan-American Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange (MACECE Fulbright Morocco) as a new Project Support partner for the 2022-23 academic year… just in time to celebrate MACECE’s 40th anniversary! Morocco was one of the first countries to recognize the newly independent United States (in 1786) and …

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We’re sure you know… today is Giving Tuesday. What you may not know is… the Roth Foundation is running a matching challenge. Thanks to funds contributed by Endowment founder Richard (Dick) Arndt, the first $5,000 in donations received will be matched 2-to-1!And did you know? … Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 by the United …

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The Lois Roth Foundation is approaching another milestone: our 35th anniversary! The organization was founded in 1987, soon after Lois’s untimely death, by her widower Dick Arndt. Check out the painting we use as the masthead of our FaceBook page, which commemorates their partnership! Since its founding, the Endowment has grown step by step, thanks …

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