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Tickets are now available for the 2012 Award Presentation Cocktail Party

The Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation Award Presentation Cocktail Party will take place Monday, May 14, 2012, from 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. at:

The Maison Française at Columbia University
Broadway Boulevard at 116th Street
New York, NY 10027

Presented Under the Patronage of His Excellency François Delattre
French Ambassador to the United States
Hon. Mr. Antonin Baudry
Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy

Featuring the first conferral of the Jacques Barzun Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Trans-Cultural Scholarly Exchange
,
honoring two academic institutions for their outstanding efforts:
Sciences Po (Institut d'études politiques de Paris) and Columbia University in New York.

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All proceeds from the event go toward the benefit of French and American graduate students.

Fine wines donated by Pernod Ricard USA.

 

The Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation is proud to announce the 2011 Scholarship Recipients:

Antoine Desir (France / Dual Degree: École Polytéchnique, Palaiseau – Columbia University)

Mr. Antoine Desir is a mathematically gifted young man. After attending preparatory school at Louis-Le-Grand, Antoine was ranked 7th out of 83 in a national entrance competition to enter École Polytéchnique’s Mathematics and Engineering Science program.

In spring 2011, Antoine worked with Dr. William M. McEneaney in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University California San Diego, to study a method of reduction of the curse of dimensionality in optimal control, using a max-plus, or “tropical,” algorithm, in which the graph of the value function is approximated by a tropical polyhedron. This work led to publication, which is a high honor for a master’s-level student. Antoine also did research on Revenue Yield Management for Air France while he was a student at the Polytéchnique.

A French citizen of Vietnamese origin, Antoine has witnessed with the extreme poverty of a developing country, and he has also lived in the Parisian milieu of elite students competing for spots in the French Grandes Écoles. Antoine understands what generosity and humane philanthropy mean. His father, a successful entrepreneur and prominent social activist in Vietnam, established a NGO called “Dust of Life,” to provide computers and Internet access to poor children. Antoine will follow his father’s example with a commitment to serve the needs of underprivileged communities.

Read more...
 

Dening Wu Lohez, Interview, France24.com, 10 September 2011

Lohez Foundation, Article France24.com

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The Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation 2011 Scholarship Selection Committee

Professor Elizabeth Roistacher (Committee Chairman)
Mr. Stephane Bouniol
Mr. Philippe Carls
Mr. Mark Denne
Mr. Jordane Elmassian
Ms. Paula Henin (2010 Scholarship Recipient)
Ms. Dening Lohez (Founder)
Ms. Nicole J. Moldovan
Ms. Barbara Wing
Dr. Alessia Lefebure (Witness), Director of Alliance Program

Professor Elizabeth Roistacher is an economics professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary for economic affairs at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a Brookings Economic Policy fellow. Professor Roistacher has also served as director of the Office of Honors and Scholarships at Queens College. Professor Roistacher received her Ph.D. in economics from University of Pennsylvania.

 

Jerome Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation Profiled by Video Documentarian Flore Perrin, 31 December 2011

 
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Our Mission

The Jérôme Lohez Foundation seeks to foster French and American unity and cultural understanding by supporting scientific, technological and scholarly exchanges in higher education, in honor of those diverse citizens who perished in the 2001 attacks in New York.