PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Evening with his Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan On June 7 2012, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences hosted his Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York. His eminence spoke about John Paul, II. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Photographic Exhibit: “Face to Face” by Czeslaw Czaplinski One of Czeslaw Czaplinski’s very first exhibits was held at PIASA some 30 years ago. Since that time, his works have been shown at various Institutes, Museums, National Galleries and other major venues around the world. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Lecture By Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz and Stefan Madejewicz Cordially invites You to a lecture Search for a Cancer Cure – Why Progress is Disappointingly, Slow An Experimental Oncologist’s View. Professor of Pathology, Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY(More information about Dr. Darzynkiewicz can be found at: www.darzynkiewicz.com/zbigniew/) A Clinical Oncologist’s View:Stefan Madajewicz, M.D., Ph. D, Professor Emeritus,Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY Abstract of the presentation The goal of our presentation is to provide information about directions and progress in cancer treatment, in a concise, uniform and logical format. We will emphasize a collaborative multidisciplinary approach to patient management that involves a surgeon, a radiologist and a medical-hematologic oncologist as well as other health care professionals working as a cohesive team. Recent scientific advances in the field of molecular oncology have led to the identification of large numbers of potential targets for novel approaches to anticancer therapies. New drugs and new anticancer strategies utilizing drug combinations have emerged and changed our treatment paradigms. Delivery of treatment is often slow, and painful mistakes are unavoidable but progress is being made. We will discuss reasons why new treatments, initially considered promising in preclinical trials, often meet difficulties in successful clinical application. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Lecture by Włodek Mandecki Abstract Genes and the Human Genome: Influences on Health and Disease By Wlodek Mandecki Recent sequencing of the human genome started a massive effort to develop fast “next generation” methods to obtain the sequence data from many genomes. Thousands of human genomes have been already sequenced. These data, together with determination of human genetic variation through microarray approaches, greatly helped us refine the understanding of genetic determinants of human diseases. The continued lowering costs of sequencing will lead to revolutionary changes in human gene-based diagnostics. We have already seen an impact on our understanding of genetic diseases and cancer. As all diseases have a genetic component, whether inherited or resulting from the body’s response to environmental stresses like viruses or toxins, new genome sequencing methods have universal appeal as they enable researchers to pinpoint errors in genes − the smallest units of heredity − that cause or contribute to disease. The ultimate goal is to use the results of genetic analyses to develop new ways to treat, cure, or even prevent the thousands of diseases that afflict humankind. The lecture will describe the basic concepts in genomic sequencing. We will discuss methods and instrumentation to sequence genomes, as well as methods to analyze genomic sequences. We will address what every one of us can do to advance the understanding of our own genome. Biography Dr. Wlodek Mandecki is President and Chief Scientific Officer of PharmaSeq, Inc., and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Dr. Mandecki received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was an R&D Manager at Abbott Laboratories and Director of Molecular Biology at DGI Biotechnologies. He has made important contributions in the area of molecular biology, genetics, in vitro diagnostics and drug discovery. Dr. Mandecki has over 20 patents and patent applications pending. He is the author of over sixty publications in peer reviewed scientific journals. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Sculpture – February 2, 2012 Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York, for the past 30 years. Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from cedar beams, which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work’s textured, faceted surfaces. She deliberately uses cedar boards milled into 4″ x 4″ widths with varied lengths, giving her a neutrality or “blank canvas” which enables her to dip into a wide range of possibilities often within the arena of the psychological and emotional. Her signature abstract shapes refer to things in the real world—simple vessels, bowls, tools, and other objects—each revealing the mark of the human hand while also summoning natural forms and forces. Born in Germany in 1942, von Rydingsvard and her family were among the dispossessed that, after the war, were forced to move from one refugee camp for displaced Poles to another, eventually settling in the United States in 1950. The artist’s respect for organic materials and the dignity of labor, the sense of loss and pain, and the persistent memories that inform her work may be traced back to these formative experiences. Ursula von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany, in 1942. She received a BA from the University of Miami, Coral Gables (1965), a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University (1975), and an honorary doctorate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1991). Von Rydingsvard’s sculpture is included in numerous permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She is the recipient of two individual grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a GuggenheimMemorial Foundation Fellowship, two awards from the American International Critics Association, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008, and was recently awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture. The Sculpture Center in New York City presented a survey of her sculpture in Winter/Spring 2011 which traveled to the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and will travel to the Frost Museum in Miami, Florida. Also in 2011, Prestel published a monograph by Patricia Phillips on her work: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Working. Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
PIASA Latest News about us MEMBERSHIP CONFERENCES AWARDS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT “Painted By Light” – Photographic Exhibition By Hanna Kelker Hanna Kelker Ph.D. is a scientist by training and by profession. She studied at the University of Warsaw, Purdue University and Michigan State University. She served on faculty at the New York University School of Medicine (Department of Medicine) where she conducted research on the development of an AIDS vaccine. She is a member of PIASA’s Board of Directors where, among her other duties, she serves as a Chair of PIASA Events Committee. With a keen lifelong interest in the arts and always fascinated by photography, she has recently begun a serious artistic pursuit using digital photography.Her passion is to photograph ephemeral images created by light. “I delight in photographing the impressions of images such as reflections and landscapes painted by light with wonderful colors that change in tone and hue with the movement of the sun passing through the day from sunrise to sunset. I am fascinated by shadows that create replicas of the objects that cast them to create a distinct mood that accentuates the characteristics of the setting. Shadows can create a lyrical effect in woods or gardens by adding fragile vegetation of their own that evolve with the passing day, or they can be perceived as menacing in a modern urban environment.” Hanna Kelker’s photographic work has been shown at the Salon of the Polish American Photographers Club (2008 and 2011), the Kips Bay Art Show, the New York University School of Medicine and the Soho Photo Gallery. Her photographs were shown as a solo photographic exhibition at the Gallery of Kurier Plus (May, 2011) and at the PIASA Gallery (October, 2011).The exhibition was reviewed by Czeslaw Karkowski (text in Polish) and can be found on the internet www.kurierplus.com (May 28th, 2011, page 7). Photographs from the exhibition taken by Zosia Zeleska Bobrowski can be seen at http://www.poland.us/strona,15,8605,0.html Other News Newsletter Vol. 2, No. 3 July 2022 • July 5, 2022 Congratulatory letter • June 21, 2022 US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski address to the 8th World Congress on Polish Studies in Białystok • June 12, 2022 Trupa Trupa’s US tour promoting Polish Culture • April 19, 2022 1 2 3 … 29 Next » Navigation Home About Us membership conferences Awards Publications Archives Library Contact Contact Us 208 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) DONATION Get Connected Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Envelope Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
