During his Army career, Marshall received the Silver Star during World War I, and the Distinguished Service Cross and Distinguished Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters from the three command and staff positions that he held in World War II.

During the American build up, he served as assistant chief of staff for I Corps and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work during the American offensives of 1918.

A protégé of Lord Roberts, he was seconded to the staff in 1895, and in 1897, he became Brigade Major of the 3rd Brigade at Aldershot, and from 1899 to 1901 he saw active service during the Second Boer War with the 4th ( Light ) Brigade ( as a Brigade Major ) before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General and assistant military secretary to Lord Roberts and was Mentioned in Despatches, awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and was recommended for brevet promotion to lieutenant-colonel on attaining a substantive majority.

Mander was the executive director of the International Forum on Globalization, which he founded in 1994, until 2009 and continues to serve on its staff as a Distinguished Fellow.

Col. Charles Evans Kilbourne, Jr., who received the Medal of Honor in the Philippine Insurrection, was decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross as chief of staff of the 89th Division.

The presentations are organized into five categories: Conference presentations, Dewey presentations, Distinguished Seminar Series, Guest presentations, and Research staff presentations.

Outstanding teaching staff include Kay Tipton, chair of the math department from 1989 to her retirement in 2007, who won Cornell University's Outstanding High School Educator Award, the Golden Apple Teacher of the Year Award, and received the White House Commission of Presidential Scholars Distinguished Teacher Award three times.

She joined Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory as a staff biochemist in 1972 and subsequently became a Senior Scientist, Director of Cell & Molecular Biology, Director of the Life Sciences Division, and Distinguished Scientist.

During this engagement, the actions of F Company in overcoming obstacles while extremely outnumbered and cut-off resulted in a Distinguished Unit Citation and it being written up as a staff study on small unit effectiveness.

* The Cato Institute named its lower level auditorium after Hayek, who had been a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Cato during his later years.

Spielberg — who was later awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award — had the idea of making Indiana a Boy Scout.

Groves had previously been nominated for the Distinguished Service Medal for his work on the Pentagon, but to avoid drawing attention to the Manhattan Project, it had not been awarded at the time.

The squadron became one of the premier RFC / RAF fighter units in 1918 and by the end of the war Douglas had been awarded a Military Cross and a Distinguished Flying Cross.

Frankland had served as a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, winning a Distinguished Flying Cross.

In addition, he received the Medal of Honor, the Lifesaving Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Navy Cross, and had three ticker-tape parades.

Jack Wilson, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, who had come to UMass from the post of J. Erik Jonsson Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create UMassOnline, was tapped to be the interim President.

Prior to that she had been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Justice at the College since 2003.

The first award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was made by President Calvin Coolidge on May 2, 1927, to ten aviators of the Air Corps who had participated in the U. S. Army Pan American Flight, which took place from December 21, 1926 to May 2, 1927.

Initially, his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Frank Albert Creighton, had nominated him from the Distinguished Conduct Medal, citing the disregard he showed for danger and his " faithfulness to duty ", however, it was later downgraded.

When interviewed by Herb Wylie, Boyden was asked about why he thought that Pegahmagabow had not received a higher award like the Distinguished Conduct Medal or the Victoria Cross.

Reginald Cook had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) and the Distinguished Flying Cross ( DFC ).

In 30 days of hell, these men of CCB had earned the Presidential Unit Citation ( United States ), formerly the Distinguished Unit Badge.

By war's end, they had been awarded a number of other medals to include 220 Distinguished Service Crosses, and 442, 000 Air Medals.

The 6th Seaforths held " the Dump ", where Sergeant Stewart was to win the DCM ( Distinguished Conduct Medal ) for his actions after taking over command when all the officers had become casualties.

He earned the Distinguished Service Medal and was considered to have had a successful career at that time, especially in light of his promotions during peace time.

Several men who had previously received the Medal of Honor received the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I.

Among the recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross for Siberia and North Russia were Robert L. Eichelberger, who would earn a second medal in World War II, and Sidney C. Graves, who had previously received a Distinguished Service Cross in World War I.

It is the highest honor a soldier can receive for an act of valor in a non-combat situation, held to be equal to or greater than the level which would have justified an award of the Distinguished Flying Cross had the act occurred in combat.

For their leadership, Ferguson and Stone were both awarded the Distinguished Service Order, while Koch was awarded both the American Distinguished Service Cross and the British Military Cross for the vital part his tanks had played in the fighting.

By this time Bromley had died when his troopship had been sunk and Grimshaw had already been awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal for his actions during the landing.

Distinguished scientist and musician James Beament puts it into perspective when he writes, “ The cortex is so complex that the most we may ever hope for is to understand it in principle, since the evidence we already have suggests that no two cortices work in precisely the same way.

Winters was recommended for the Medal of Honor for his leadership at Brécourt Manor, but due to the quota system which limited the distribution of the award to only one per division, and since one Medal of Honor had already been awarded — to Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Cole — the recommendation was downgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross, the U. S. Army's second highest award for combat valor.

In 1992, Grau appeared in the minor role of Hattie Rifkin in the film The Distinguished Gentleman.

She appeared in the Faces In The Crowd section of Sports Illustrated in 2003, participated in the Ohio Reads program working with elementary students, made Elyria High School ’ s High and Distinguished Honor Rolls each of the four years, and was named the 2003 Gatorade Ohio High School Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

Normally, such responsibilities deserving of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal are held by the most senior officers such as the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chiefs and Vice Chiefs of the Services, and Commanders and Deputy Commanders of the Combatant Commands, the Director of the Joint Staff etc., whose duties bring them frequently into direct contact with the Secretary of Defense, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and other senior government officials.

The order establishing the medal also expanded the size and the responsibilities of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board so it could serve as a major source of such recommendations.

The Distinguished Lecture Series brings speakers such as journalist Seymour Hersh, author Michael Cunningham and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa to campus.

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale ( 1997, 1980, 1976 ), the Whitney Biennial ( 1995, 1977 ), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany ( 1972 ), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women ’ s Caucus for Art of the College Art Association ( 2005 ); the Governor ’ s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1998 ); the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1998 ); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association ( 1998 ); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale ( 1997 ); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government ( 1992 ); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany ( 1991 ); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( 1989 ).

Pokryshkin was, in addition to his three Hero of the Soviet Union golden stars, awarded four Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov ( 2nd class ), two Orders of the Red Star, a number of other medals, and foreign orders, such as the US Army Distinguished Service Medal which he is seen wearing below his other medals in some photographs.

The Givens Performing Arts Center hosts numerous Broadway shows, orchestras, shows geared towards children, and also hosts the " Distinguished Speaker Series ," in cooperation with the Association of Campus Entertainment, which has brought in notable people such as Cory Booker, Bill Nye, Jodi Sweetin, Patch Adams and Hill Harper, among many others.

Actions that merit the Distinguished Service Cross must be of such a high degree that they are above those required for all other U. S. combat decorations but do not meet the criteria for the Medal of Honor.

The university has many lecture series, such as the high-profile Trinity Distinguished Lecture Series, Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, Nobel Economists Lecture Series, and Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs.

Distinguished biologists, such as Ernst Mayr and Manfred Eigen have seen these informational aspects as one of the emergent features of life as a process that distinguish life from anything else in the physical world, except, perhaps, man-made computers.

It is the first time in World War II that a ship-based seaplane spots gunfire for a Royal Navy ship and is considered a classic example of the use of a floatplane in such a role ; the pilot, Lieutenant E. D. G. Lewin, receives the Distinguished Service Cross for the action.

He has been recognized for numerous professional and service contributions from multiple organizations such as Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Maryland ; the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award ; the Silver Beaver Award from the Boy Scouts of America ; the Silver Knight of Management Award from the National Management Association ; the Henry M. Jackson Award and the IEEE Centennial Award.

In awarding Lovett the Distinguished Service Medal in September 1945, President Harry Truman wrote: " He has truly been the eyes, ears and hands of the Secretary of War in respect to the growth of that enormous American airpower which has astonished the world and played such a large part in bringing the war to a speedy and successful conclusion.

She is the recipient of numerous international peace, human rights and democracy awards, such as the Olof Palme Award, the Defender of Democracy Award, the Jane Addams International Women's Leadership Award, the Distinguished Alumna Award of the University of Virginia Women's Center, the Distinguished Lifetime Achievements AUB Alumni Award, and the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation.

* In computer security, OIDs serve to name almost every object type in X. 509 certificates, such as components of Distinguished Names, CPSs, etc.

Promotions stop once a pilot makes Colonel, although he can continue amassing medals, such as the Purple Heart, Air Medal, Bronze Star, Silver Star, Distinguished Service Cross, and the Congressional Medal of Honor and retire with a final promotion to Brig.

Fontana has written articles for such periodicals as The New York Times, TV Guide and Esquire and has taught at Columbia, Syracuse, Rutgers and the State University College at Buffalo, his alma mater, from which he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters.

Distinguished French historian, Pierre Vidal-Naquet in " Assassins of Memory " discusses such criticism.

The Institute is also well regarded for its Shepperd Distinguished Lecture Series, which has brought a variety of internationally recognized individuals, such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert McNamara, Ralph Nader, William F. Buckley, Jr., and most recently Malcolm Gladwell to discuss salient political and social topics.

Resident in the Kluge Center will be Senior Distinguished Scholars, occupying the Kluge Chairs, post-doctoral Fellows, and such other appropriate categories as the Librarian may designate.

Recognition Dinner, service opportunities, encouragement letters, and major awards such as the Edgar Shannon Award, presented to one student from each school during graduation, as well as the Distinguished Faculty Award, presented to one faculty member from the University every year.

Distinguished guests such as HRH Prince Charles of Wales and Malcolm Forbes have resided there.