PARADIGM AWARD

Setting the Example

Our Awards Ceremony celebrates the academic brilliance and high aspirations of our scholarship recipients, but also the lifelong achievements of a successful Greek American whose career and accomplishments serve as testimony to educational and Hellenic ideals— and also as a worthy example for our youth.

This latter individual receives the Foundation's Paradigm Award, for exemplary service in his or her respective field, and for making the Hellenic community proud.

The Paradigm Award recipients typify our goal of Building a Better America through Education & Hellenism. Their personal, educational, and social achievements are consummate, as is their consistent display and practice of Hellenic values. Because of how they have lived their lives, America is a better place.

Paradigm Award Recipients

2009 - DR. THANASIS ECONOMOU, University of Chicago and NASA Senior Planetary Scientist

2008 - DR. PETER H. DIAMANDIS, Founder/Chairman of X-Prize Foundation

2007 - JOHN P. CALAMOS, SR., Chairman and CEO of Calamos investments

2006 - DR. CONSTANTINE PAPADAKIS, Drexel University President

2005 - MICHAEL BILIRAKIS, U.S. Representative

2005 - PAUL SARBANES, U.S. Senator