Dan David Prizes and Scholarships 2012

Every year the Dan David Foundation grants three prizes of one million US dollars and twenty scholarships of 15,000 US dollars to young outstanding doctoral and postdoctoral students.

The Dan David Prize covers three time dimensions - Past, Present and Future - that represent realms of human achievement. Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. Three prizes of one million US dollars each are granted annually in the fields chosen for the three time dimensions. The 2012 dimensions are: 'History/Biography', 'Plastic Arts', and 'Genome Research'.

The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, and humanities that have made an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, ethnicity, color, religion, language, nationality, disability, or political affiliation.

The Dan David Prize is unique in that its laureates donate 10% of their prize money to graduate students in their respective fields, thereby contributing to the community and fostering a new generation of scholars. 

The Dan David Prize is a joint international enterprise, endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University. It recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world.

Deadlines
The deadline for receipt of nominations is November 30, 2011.
The deadline for scholarship applications receipt is March 15, 2012.

More information
Please visit http://www.dandavidprize.org