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

Marko V. Jaric

Marko V. Jaric was born on March 17, 1952 in Belgrade. He completed his elementary school education in Belgrade and attended the Air Force Military High School in Mostar where he graduated in 1970 as the best student of his class. Subsequently he enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics where he received a degree in physics in 1974, graduating as the best student of his generation. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 at the City University of New York with professor Joseph Birman, one of the most prominent physicists in solid-state physics, as his thesis advisor.

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Dr Marko Jaric completed his post-doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley from 1978 to 1980 as a Miller fellow and at the Freie Universität in Berlin from 1980 to 1982 as a Humboldt fellow. As an already recognized scientist he conducted research at the Institut des Hautes Etudes at Bures-sur-Yvette, France and at the Einstein Center for Theoretical Physics at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

Dr. Marko Jaric received his first professorship in 1983 at the Montana State University, where he lectured as a visiting professor. In 1985 he received the same position at Harvard University, and only a year later, in 1986, he was offered a full professorship at the renowned A&M University in Texas where he stayed until his premature death on the 25th of October 1997. He was especially proud of the professorship he received from the Nikola Tesla University in Knin in 1993.

Professor Marko Jaric was actively involved in scientific research in theoretical solid-state physics, mathematical physics, and biophysics. His successful research career may be best illustrated with more than 100 articles published in leading scientific journals. His papers are cited over 1300 times in international scientific journals. He published four books and supervised several scientific projects funded by the US National Science Foundation. In addition professor Jari was a reviewer and often the main referee for two distinguished journals: Physical Review and Physical Review Letters. He organized four international conferences and delivered opening lectures as an invited speaker on 30 other international conferences.

The principal results of professor Jaric’s work which enabled him to reach the world’s highest level and brought him the reputation of a world class physicist include: the application of spatial group theory to structural phase transitions, investigation of the coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity, the theory of equilibrium polymerization and the physics of quasicrystals. His pioneering works in the field of quasicrystal physics along with his four books: Introduction to Quasicrystals, Introduction to the Mathematics of Quasicrystals, Extended Icosahedral Structures, and Quasicrystals, have come to represent the basic literature in this field and have brought him a great scientific recognition.

His exceptional talent for science and remarkable intelligence made him a very popular and highly respected person wherever he was living and working.

With the same enthusiasm and courage that characterized his work in physics, Marko Jaric strived for the protection of truth and defending the rights of the Serbian people.

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Marta Milosevic-Brankovic

Marta Milosevic-Brankovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She has captured the attention of audience and critics alike since her concerto debut at Ganz Rudolph Hall in Chicago in 2005 where one of the most famous pianists alive, Abbey Simon (Professor at the Juilliard School) personally attended the concert and highly acclaimed her performance of Bach and Chopin. At the age of six Marta took her first piano lesson and already a year later she played her first public concert. She was 21 when she graduated at the Music Art Academy in Belgrade as the youngest student with the highest GPA in the generation. She received her early musical training in class of Russian Professor Jakuthon Mlhailovich, a graduate from the Moscow Conservatory. At the same time she has also completed Media studies at the University of Art in Belgrade. During her studies, she worked with eminent artists from her country and auended a number of piano master courses of the following Professors: Sijavus Gadzijev (Moscow). Tamara Stefanovic (Koeln). Dr. David Abot (Zurich-New York), Dr. Tatjana Rankovich (New York), Dr. Omitry Rachmanov (Chicago-New York) and many others.

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Residents of Heaven

An Exhibit of Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Icons

Residents of Heaven is a book of Icons by Father Stamatis Skliris which were prepared for "An Exhibit of Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Icons" held at the "David Allan Hubbard Library, Fuller Theological Seminary" in Pasadena, California, June 10 - July 5, 2010.

The iconographer, V. Rev. Stamatis Skliris, attended the opening of the exhibit with His Grace, Bishop Maxim who gave the Introduction. The mounting of the display was done by Jasminka Gabrie and the staff of the Fuller Library. The opening event was organized by Dr. William Dyrness, Director of the Visual Faith Institute, Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts, Fuller Seminary.