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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Stella Jatras

Stella Louis Jatras (nee Katsetos) from Camp Hill, PA, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, as the fourth and youngest daughter of Louis (Leonidas) and Marina Katsetos, originally of Sparta, Greece, and later of Harrisburg and Carlisle.

Stella was quite literally a daughter of Sparta - and her father's name was Leonidas, no less. As Julia Gorin noted, she was Sparta, truly worthy of that heroic heritage. Axia!

In addition to the U.S. Department of State, her professional work included service with the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and the Veterans Administration.

In 1953, she married George Jatras, also the offspring of Greek immigrant parents, and began a long and varied life as the wife of a career U.S. Air Force Officer.

As a career military officer's wife, Stella traveled widely and lived in several foreign countries where she not only learned about other cultures but became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs and world politics. She lived in Moscow for two years, where she worked in the Political Section of the U.S. Embassy. She also lived in Germany, Greece, and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty countries.

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The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.