CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Created in 1999 as a local Award for leadership in Washington, DC, the Awards were expanded in 2001 to recognize great leaders and thinkers throughout the world. Funding from the Awards supports additional research, scholars, and programs in Washington and the home community of the recipients.

Detailed explanation-2: -President Woodrow Wilson of the United States won the Peace Prize for 1919 as the leading architect behind the League of Nations.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship is given to those executives who, by their examples and their business practices, have shown a deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Woodrow Wilson Award is awarded to a Princeton alumna or alumnus “whose career embodies the call to duty in Wilson’s speech, ‘Princeton in the Nation’s Service. ‘”

Detailed explanation-5: -The biography for President Wilson and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).