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

Jelena Kovačević postala je prva žena dekan prestižnog njujorškog fakulteta

Jelena Kovačević, rođena Beograđanka, prekinula je tradiciju dugu 164 godine i postala prva žena dekan Tehničkog fakulteta Tandon na njujorškom univerzitetu, drugog najstarijeg privatnog fakulteta u oblasti tehničkih nauka.

Kada je u avgustu 2018. godine postala dekan ovog prestižnog njujorškog fakulteta, Jelena Kovačević, rođena Beograđanka, i ćerka čuvenog Živorada Kovačevića akademika, ambasadora Jugoslavije u SAD i bivšeg gradonačelnika Beograda, upisala se u istoriju ovog fakulteta kao prva žena koja je došla na čelo ove institucije osnovane još sredinom 19. veka.

Ovaj profesionalni uspeh praćen je čak i interesovanjem za njen privatni život, pa je nedavno New York Times posvetio ceo tekst njoj i njenim privatnim i poslovnim navikama.

Porodica naučnika

Kovačevićeva je profesorka inženjerstva, ima 56 godina i iz Beograda je. Njen otac je Živorad Kovačević, srpski političar, diplomata i akademik koji je ujedno bio i 60. gradonačelnik Beograda u periodu između 1974. i 1982. godine, ali i ambasador Jugoslavije u SAD u od 1987. i 1989. godine.

Pre nego što je postala dekan, 15 godina je provela radeći na Univerzitetu Karnegi Melon u Pitsburgu, a radila je i na Univerzitetu Kolumbija.

Obrazovanje je započela u Srbiji gde je završila Matematičku gimnaziju, a nakon petogodišnjih studija na beogradskom ETF-u odlazi u Ameriku gde nastavlja postdiplomske studije. Doktorsku disertaciju odbranila je na Univerzitetu Kolumbija na kom dobija zvanje doktora elektrotehničkih nauka.

Oblast istraživanja kojom se Jelena bavi već 30 godina obuhvata obradu signala, biomedicinski inženjering i "data science", a autor je i nekoliko knjiga.

Život u Njujorku

Živi u Njujorku, na Aper vest sajdu, sa suprugom Đovanijem Pacifičijem (61) koji radi za IBM, a zajedno imaju ćerku Danicu koja će uskoro diplomirati na Univerzitetu Džon Hopkins u Baltimoru.

- Nadam se da će moje imenovanje na mesto dekana pokazati i devojčicama i dečacima šta je moguće postići na polju matematike, inženjerstva, nauke i tehnologije - izjavila je Kovačević za Njujork tajms.

Ona se bavi različitim naučnim oblastima, od upravljanja saobraćajem do medicine, ali je posvećena i uspostavljanju rodne ravnopravnosti na Tandonu.

Jelena je za Njujork tajms ispričala kako provodi vikende.

Buđenje tačno u šest, kući tek u 21

Ne navija alarm za buđenje, već se sama budi svakog jutra u šest, a iako je odrasla na jakoj turskoj kafi, u trudnoći je prešla na onu bez kofeina, te uz doručak – koji se uglavnom sastoji iz ovsene kaše – pročita novine, a zatim odlazi na trčanje u Central park sa mužem i ćerkom.

Istrčala je pet njujorških maratona, ali sada trči rekreativno. Često posećuje mediteranske restorane, gleda fudbalske utakmice u obližnjim kafićima, a kada je kod kuće, gleda Netfliks.

Naporno radi, te često ne dođe kući pre devet uveče.

- Nedeljom se od jedan do šest popodne pripremam za narednu radnu nedelju - ispričala je Jelena. Radi u istoj kancelariji sa svojim mužem koju su pre dve godine otvorili spojivši dva stana. Čak i sede za istim stolom.

- Stvarno uživam dok radim u toj atmosferi, jer mogu da se koncentrišem i razmišljam - navela je ona.

Jelena je napisala veliki broj naučnih radova, ali i bila koautorka nekoliko knjiga koje se bave programiranjem i obradom signala. Osvojila je brojne nagrade, među kojima su Oktobarska nagrada Grada Beograda, ali i "E.I. Jury Award" koju joj je dodelio Univerzitet Kolumbija i "CIT Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award" Univerziteta Karnegi Melon. Društvo za obradu signala joj je takođe dodelilo nagradu 2016. godine za tehničko dostignuće.

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Dimitrije Djordjevic

Dimitrije Djordjevic, Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, died in Santa Barbara on March 5, 2009, one week after his 87th birthday.

Professor Djordjevic was one of the leading historians of Serbia and the Balkans in the 19th and early 20th century, a man of vast knowledge, held in great esteem in national and international scholarly circles. He was a founding member of the North American Society for Serbian Studies and its former President.

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Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan

by Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

In 2013 Christian world celebrates 1700 years since the day when the Providence of God spoke through the holy Emperor Constantine and freedom was given to the Christian faith. Commemorating the 1700 years since the Edict of Milan of 313, Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church published a book by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan. The book has 72 pages and was translated by Popadija Aleksandra Petrovich. This excellent overview of the historical circumstances that lead to the conversion of the first Christian emperor and to the publication of a document that was called "Edict of Milan", was originally published in Serbian by the Brotherhood of St. Simeon the Myrrh-gusher, Vrnjci 2013. “The Edict of Milan” is calling on civil authorities everywhere to respect the right of believers to worship freely and to express their faith publicly.

The publication of this beautiful pocket-size, full-color, English-language book, has been compiled and designed by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologian Archimandrite Justin Popovich. Bishop Athanasius' thought combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant faith, knowledge of history, and a profound experience of Christ in the Church.

In the conclusion of the book, the author states:"The era of St. Constantine and his mother St. Helena, marks the beginning of what history refers to as Roman, Christian Empire, which was named Byzantium only in recent times in the West. In fact, this was the conception of a Christian Europe. Christian Byzantine culture had a critical effect on Europe; Europe was its heir, and then consciously forgot it. Europe inherited many Byzantine treasures, but unfortunately, also robbed and plundered many others for its own treasuries and museums – not only during the Crusades, but during colonial rule in the Byzantine lands as well. We, the Orthodox Slavs, received a great heritage of the Orthodox Christian East from Byzantium. Primarily, Christ’s Gospel, His faith and His Church, and then, among other things, the Cyrillic alphabet, too."