Fisk University is one of four historically black colleges and universities to earn a tier-one ranking on the list of Best National Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2011 edition of Best Colleges by U. S. News and World Reports.

In 2011, CBS Money Watch ranked professors at Fisk University 19th out of 650 colleges and universities in the nation.

On June 1, 2011, Konerko hit his 377th career home run in a game against the Boston Red Sox, passing former White Sox player Carlton Fisk on the White Sox all-time home run list.

Fisk with Jack Fisk | Jack and Madison Fisk at a ceremony for Sissy Spacek to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in August 2011

On March 1, 2011, Fisk released her sophomore album " Blue Ribbon Winner " ( through her label Cassidy Barks ), then toured alongside the band Harper Blynn ( who collaborated with her on the title track of the album ).

In November 2011, Fisk released a Christmas EP titled " Sounds of the Holiday " on iTunes and Amazon.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

On July 9, 2011, Agassi was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Newport, Rhode Island.

Leila Lopes, Miss Angola 2011, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Brazil on 12 September 2011 making her the first Angolan to win the pageant.

The real GDP growth rate for 2011 was expected at 3. 7 % but had dropped to. 1 %.

Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.

The project was still pending completion as of Mar 2011.

Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.

The population of the Andaman was 343, 125 in 2011, having grown from 50, 000 in 1960.

It was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame, along with Sackson, in 2011.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, the sixteen-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center as well as VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

Vinge's Children of the Sky, " a near-term sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep ", set ten years later, was released in October 2011.

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

In September 2011, it was announced that the new president, Thomas DiBenedetto, had reached an agreement with the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, to have the new stadium completed by 2016.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

In 2011, Aon was ranked as the largest insurance broker in the world based on revenue.

The official population of Alicante in 2011 was 334, 329 inhabitants and 771, 061 in the metropolitan area " Alicante-Elche ".

* 1926 – Keith Davey was a Canadian politician, Senator, and campaign organizer ( d. 2011 )

213 kg of amphetamine worth 40 million AED ( Nearly $ 11 million ) was seized by the United Arab Emirate Drug combat authorities on 30 November 2011 from an Iranian ship that was supposed to deliver the consignment in Malaysia and made a port stop in Sharjah.

According to the 2011 India census, Ajmer district has a population of 2, 584, 913, which was made up of 1, 325, 911 males and 1, 259, 002 females.

In 2010 – 2011, Caltech awarded $ 14. 2 million in need-based aid, $ 940k in non-need-based aid, and $ 2. 35 million in self-help support to every enrolled undergraduate student.

In 2011 he was awarded the lifetime achievement award by the Urban Design Group.

On 10 March 2011, it was revealed that Prince Harry had passed his Apache flying test and he was awarded his Apache Flying Badge on 14 April 2011.

On 1 July 2011, Dalglish was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster, for services to football and charity.

In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award.

* 2011 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese awarded actor, journalist, writer and broadcaster ( b. 1920 )

Moore was awarded the 2011 Screen Actors Guild's lifetime achievement award.

In 2009, the operations and maintenance contract for the day-to-day management and operation of the Fence was awarded to Five Rivers Services, LLC, based out of Colorado Springs, CO. On September 30, 2011, Five Rivers Services was awarded a $ 7, 022, 503 firm fixed price with cost reimbursable line items contract modification to manage, operate, maintain, and logistically support the nine Air Force Space Surveillance System field stations, presumably for Fiscal Year 2012.

In 2011, Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in the Metallurgy Division in 1982-1984 with John W. Cahn.

Another measure of the difference between these two similarly named but very distinct awards is their per-capita frequency of award: from 1946 to 1961 the average annual incidence of award of the Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 86, 500 adult U. S. citizens ; from 1996 to 2011 the average annual incidence of award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom was approximately 1 per every 20, 500, 000 adult U. S. citizens ( so on an annualized per capita basis, about 240 Medals of Freedom have been awarded per one Presidential Medal of Freedom ).

Due to fear of the scientific community's reaction, it took him two years to publish the results for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.

Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his work on quasicrystals.

In 2011, the John Templeton Foundation awarded Trinity College's Master, the astrophysicist Martin Rees, its controversial million-pound Templeton Prize, for " affirming life's spiritual dimension ".

The Mansura Trophy was awarded for this new propulsion system in May 2011.

In July 2011, Ono was awarded the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions in art and for peace.

In December 2011, she was awarded the Austrian 20, 000-euro ($ 26, 100 ) Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize.

He was awarded an honorary Ph. D from the University of Westminster in London, England in November 2011.

By April 2011, approximately 100, 000 visitors per week accessed its data and the Bank awarded prizes to people who had participated in the first competition to use the data to develop mobile apps.

The 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics were both awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess for the 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.

In 2011, he was given the Auteur Award by the International Press Academy, which is awarded to filmmakers whose singular vision and unique artistic control over the elements of production give a personal and signature style to their films.

These include several musicals based on his life, such as The Fartiste ( awarded Best Musical at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival ) and Seth Rozin's A Passing Wind which was premiered at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2011.

In September 2011, Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for " teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations ".