" Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 102, Spring 2008.

* The State of American Cuisine-A report issued by the James Beard Foundation in July, 2008.

On June 24, 2008, Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.

In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

* Windows Server 2008 Foundation Server

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

Harvey Mudd today still maintains the highest rate of science and engineering Ph. D. production among all undergraduate colleges and second highest ( Caltech ranks second and MIT third ) compared to all universities and colleges, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.

Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, IMU released a report in 2008 " Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities " on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development.

The house of the Zamenhof family, dedicated to Ludwik Zamenhof and the Białystok Esperanto Centre, are sites of the Jewish Heritage Trail in Białystok, which was opened in June 2008 by volunteers at The University of Białystok Foundation.

By 2008 there were at least six institutions monitoring lake water health: 1 ) In 2002 the Conservation Law Foundation appointed a " lakekeeper " who criticizes the state's pollution controls, 2 ) Friends of Missisquoi Bay was formed in 2003, 3 ) the Lake Champlain Committee, 4 ) Vermont Water Resources Board

In September 2008, mathematicians at UCLA participating in GIMPS won part of a $ 100, 000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for their discovery of a very nearly 13-million-digit Mersenne prime.

In 2008, Nashville was ranked as the 18th-worst spring allergy city in the U. S. by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

A special conference of scholars on Pius XII on the 50th anniversary of his death was held in Rome on 15 – 17 September 2008, by Pave the Way Foundation, a nonsectarian organization founded by Gary Krupp, a Jewish American, which promotes interfaith cooperation.

* Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Computing, Special Issue, Elsevier Journal of Computer Communication, ( Ed ) Javed I. Khan and Adam Wierzbicki, Volume 31, Issue 2, February 2008

In June 2008 a new Internet cafe opened on Praslin, set up in the district administration office at Baie Ste Anne, under the sponsorship of the Jj Spirit Foundation, the Lions Club of Paradise Seychelles and Cable & Wireless.

Thomas Lovejoy has been granted the 2008 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology category ( ex aequo with William F. Laurance ).

Macy's, in partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, launched its first Believe campaign in 2008, based on " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ".

The 2008 Believe campaign results included Macy's collecting 1. 1 million letters from Santa Mail Red Letter boxes located in Macy's stores, that were then mailed to him through the United States Post Office " Operation Santa ", and Macy's making a matching $ 1 million US contribution to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for the letters collected by Macy's.

Taleyarkhan received from September 2008 to August 2009 a $ 185, 000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate bubble fusion.

Its author base is overwhelmingly local, and in 2008 it entered into a partnership with the Mandela Rhodes Foundation to support scholarships for South Africans studying postgraduate degrees.

He contributed $ 20, 857, 000 for the year of 2008 to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.

* 2008: One on a Side, Robert Frost Foundation

On December 11, 2008, the Free Software Foundation filed suit against Cisco regarding Cisco's failure to comply with the GPL and LGPL license models and make the applicable source code publicly available.

Lessig returned to Harvard in December 2008 as Professor and Director of the " Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics ".

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, director, and producer ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Robert Mulligan, American director ( d. 2008 )

On January 13, 2008, the Falcons named former Patriots director of college football scouting Thomas Dimitroff General Manager.

* 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and director ( d. 2008 )

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

* 1955 – Milenko Zablaćanski, Serbian actor, director, and playwright ( d. 2008 )

On April 19, 2008, NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell sent a memo to the Detroit Red Wings organization that forbids Zamboni drivers from cleaning up any octopuses thrown onto the ice and that violating the mandate would result in a $ 10, 000 fine.

The Colombian director of national police claimed three captured computers from the deceased FARC rebel leader Raúl Reyes document " tremendously revealing " and " very grave " links between Ecuador and Colombian rebels. March 2, 2008.

However, writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father José Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, said in 2008 that intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space.

In collaboration with Studio 4C, American director Michael Arias released Tekkon Kinkreet in 2008, to international acclaim.

In August 2008, the appointment of Leung Chin-man as deputy managing director and executive director of New World China Land, subsidiary of New World Development, was greeted with uproar amidst widespread public suspicion that job offer was a quid pro quo for the favours he allegedly granted to NWD.

* 1934 – Sydney Pollack, American director ( d. 2008 )

* 1954 – Anthony Minghella, British film director ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ( b. 1934 )

* 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( b. 1931 )

* 1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director ( d. 2008 )

* James Turner ( acting director ), 2007 – 2008

Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008.

As of June 2008, plans to remake the film Barbarella with Rose McGowan as the lead have been delayed ; the actress and director are instead remaking the film Red Sonja.

* 1945 – Bob Spiers, Scottish director ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, Guillermo del Toro was selected as the director, with Peter Jackson as the executive producer.

In an interview in 2008, Sondheim said " There is a move afoot to do Follies movie with a well-known director and a well-known star, and I'm not going to tell you who they are.