The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America is pleased to announce and congratulate its 2018 Award Recipients in seven categories

PIASA Distinguished Achievement Award: Dr. Jan Kubik, Rutgers University and University College London

The Oskar Halecki Polish History Award: Dr. Paul Knoll, University of Southern California, for his book “A Pearl of Powerful Learning”: The University of Cracow in the Fifteenth Century (Brill, 2016).

The Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award: Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski, University of California, Irvine, for his outstanding research contributions to ophthalmology.

The Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award: Dr. Evgeny Finkel, The Johns Hopkins University, for his book Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust (Princeton University Press, 2018).

The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, for her book of essays, Objects of Affection (Braddock Avenue Books, 2018).

The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award: Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers University, for his outstanding contributions to computer science and its applications.

The Ludwik Krzyzanowski Polish Review Award: Dr. Adam Chmielewski, University of Wroclaw, for his article “Rethinking a Central European City” (vol. 62, no. 2, 2017).

The Recipients will be officially recognized and receive their during its annual banquet the evening of June 15, 2019 at the PIASA Seventh World Congress in Gdansk, Poland.