Tag: Vilcek Prize

  • Edwidge Danticat, Yaa Gyasi are Vilcek Prize 2020 recipients.

    Edwidge Danticat, Yaa Gyasi are Vilcek Prize 2020 recipients.

    Edwidge Danticat and Yaa Gyasi were among the recipients of the Vilcek Prize 2020 announced on February 1, 2020. The Vilcek Foundation was established in 2000 by Jan and Marica Vilcek, immigrants from the former Czechoslovakia to the United States. It awards two prizes annually to immigrants, one in biomedical science and one in a…