A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Naš naučnik Milan Mrkšić na najprestižnijem američkom Univerzitetu

Ima redak status doživotnog profesora na Univerzitetu, a bio je pokretač i sintetičke laboratorije koja koristi biološke sisteme, biljke, bakterije i ćelije da proizvode hemikalije i lekove za farmaceutsku industriju

Naš priznati i nagrađivani naučnik Milan Mrkšić imenovan je za potpredsednika za istraživanje Northwestern Univerziteta u Čikagu, jednom od 12 najprestižnijih u Americi, piše SerbianTimes.info.

Ovu važno visoko zvanje u instituciji koja je ujedno i najveća i najbolja bolnica u Čikagu, zaslužio je vodeći portfelj univerziteta tokom pandemijske borbe.

“Mrkšić je preuzeo funkciju privremenog potpredsednika za istraživanje 1. oktobra 2019, mnogo pre nego što nas je pogodila globalna pandemija, ali njegovo duboko znanje i razumevanje istraživačkog centra na Univerzitetu značajno su mu pomogli u novoj ulozi. Završio je sjajan posao radeći sa svojim timom na prilagođavanju istraživačkih aktivnosti tokom epidemije i održavanju osnovnih laboratorijskih i administrativnih usluga”, rečeno je prilikom imenovanja.

Po preuzimanju funkcije, prof. Milan Mrkšić planira da istraživanje vrati u kampus.

Koliko je njegova uloga na Northwestern Univerzitetu značajna, najbolje govori podatak da se u istraživačku infrastrukturu na godišnjem nivou odvaja 798,3 miliona dolara (podatak za 2019. godinu).

Predsednik Northwestern sistema Morton Šapir istakao je da profesor Milan Mrkšić odličan vođa i da trenutno zauzima proaktivan pristup “kako bi intenzivirao istraživanja u borbi protiv COVID-19, istovremeno osiguravajući da Univerzitet nastavi da drži svoje stroge, visokokvalitetne istraživačke standarde.”

Mrkšić je objavio više od 200 naučnih radova i oko 500 predavanja o svom radu.

Ima redak status doživotnog profesora na Univerzitetu, a bio je pokretač i sintetičke laboratorije koja koristi biološke sisteme, biljke, bakterije i ćelije da proizvode hemikalije i lekove za farmaceutsku industriju.

Nacionalno poznati hemičar je lider u razvoju površinske hemijske industrije za niz primena u naukama o životu, nanoznanjima i bioinžinjeringu.

Bio je i pomoćnik direktora za tehnologiju u Holističkom centru za rak, saradnik je Američkog instituta za medicinsko i biološko inženjerstvo i Američkog udruženja za unapređenje nauke.

Njegovi roditelji su doseljenici u SAD, a kao rođeni Amerikanac srpskog porekla uspeva da održava veze sa maticom, tako što promoviše znamenite Srbe, a ćerke šalje na folklor.

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Aleksandar Petrov

Aleksandar Petrov, born in Nis (Yugoslavia) 1938, received his Ph.D. at the University of Zagreb. For many years he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade and Director of the History of Literature Department.

As an outstanding poet and novelist, Aleksandar Petrol is featured in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (v. 181, 242-250 p.p., Washington D.C. and London 1997) as one of the most important Serbian writers of the post World War II period. He has served as President of the Writers’ Association of Serbia and Acting President of the Writers’ Association of the former Yugoslavia. Petrov is a member of the International P.E.N. and several other literary and academic associations.

He has taught at over ten universities in the U.S.A. and has lectured extensively in many countries of the world. Since 1993, he is affiliated with The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.  Petrov has published 8 books of poems in Serbia and translations of his books were published – in Britain, France, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Poland, Israel, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S.A. His poems were translated into 29 languages and included in anthologies of World, European, Yugoslav and Serbian poetry.

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The Christian Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija

THE HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL HEARTLAND OF THE SERBIAN PEOPLE

Published by: Sebastian Press, Los Angeles. Co-publishers: Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade • The Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America • Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Belgrade • BLAGO Fund • Serbica Americana • Interklima-grafika, Vrnjci

“This book on Serbia’s Christian Heritage in Kosovo and Metohija, its heartland in medieval times and through Ottoman domination, is intended to introduce to a wide reading public the oldest and richest treasury of Serbian medieval history and culture. Its authors are leading specialists in the fields in which they write, so readers may place complete reliance on the factual accuracy of the material.”

“The editor and publisher have the fervent hope that today’s peoples in Kosovo and Metohija will be able to begin their discussions not from what divides them but from what unites them, emphasizing in positive and constructive ways the areas in which a Serbo-Albanian ethnic symbiosis has existed. This book invites all to consider their differences in the light of history and of the future.”

Authors: Gojko Subotić • Alex Dragnich • Slavko Todorovich • Thomas A. Emmert • Sima M. Ćirković • Arthur Evans • G. K. Chesterton • Boško Bojović • Atanasije Jevtić • Alexander F. Hilferding • Rebecca West • Rebecca West • Stamatis Skliris • Dušan T. Bataković • Radovan Samardžić • Dimitrije Djordjević • Dimitrije Bogdanović • Sava Janjić • Andrew Wermuth • F. W. Harvey and others

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