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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Bogdan Denitch

Bogdan Denitch (born August 9, 1929) is an American sociologist of Yugoslav origin who is an emeritus professor at the City University of New York (CUNY). He is a leading authority on the political sociology of the former Yugoslavia. Active in democratic left politics, Denitch is an honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America, and has served as its representative to the Socialist International. From 1983 through 2004 he organized the annual Socialist Scholars Conference in New York. Since the 1990s he has been an advocate for human rights and an opponent of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia.

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My Brother's Keeper

by Fr. Radovan Bigovic

Rare are the books of Orthodox Christian authors that deal with the subject of politics in a comprehensive way. It is taken for granted that politics has to do with the secularized (legal) protection of human rights (a reproduction of the philosophy of the Enlightenment), within the political system of so-called "representative democracy", which is limited mostly to social utility or to the conventional rules of human relations. Most Christians look at politics and democracy as unrelated with their experience of the Church herself, which abides both in history and in the Kingdom, the eschaton. Today, the commercialization of politics—its submission to the laws of publicity and the brainwashing of the masses—has literally abolished the "representative" parliamentary system. So, why bother with politics when every citizen of so-called developed societies has a direct everyday experience of the rapid decline and alienation of the fundamental aspects of modernity?

In the Orthodox milieu, Christos Yannaras has highlighted the conception of the social and political event that is borne by the Orthodox ecclesiastical tradition, which entails a personalistic (assumes an infinite value of the human person as opposed to Western utilitarian individualism) and relational approach. Fr Radovan Bigovic follows this approach. In this book, the reader will find a faithful engagement with the liturgical and patristic traditions, with contemporary thinkers, Orthodox and non-Orthodox, all in conversation with political science and philosophy. As an excellent Orthodox theologian and a proponent of dialogue, rooted in the catholic (holistic) being of the Orthodox Church and of his Serbian people, Fr Radovan offers a methodology that encompasses the above-mentioned concerns and quests.