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 PUBLIC LAW 103-299—AUG. 18, 1994 108 STAT. 1555 Public Law 103-299 103d Congress Joint Resolution Recognizing the American Academy in Rome, an American overseas center for » - .g IQQA independent study and advanced research, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary ' of its founding. [S.J. Res. 204] Whereas the American Academy in Rome was established 100 years ago in Italy as the foremost American overseas center for independent study and advanced research on the fine arts and the humanities; Whereas the American Academy in Rome has been a constant, active force for the enrichment of American culture, as year after year its Fellows and Residents have returned to the United States, enriched by the cultural heritage of Italy, and have conveyed their enrichment to their compatriots; Whereas the American Academy in Rome has maintained and expanded upon the basis of its founding, and currently serves more than 3,000 people annually with its fellowship and residency programs, its unique research library, a series of summer programs, and projects in archaeology and publishing, and serves thousands of other people who participate in Academy concerts, lectures, symposia, exhibitions, and other special events in Rome and the United States; Whereas the central purpose of the American Academy in Rome is its fellowship program, the Academy being committed to identifying and nurturing the most promising American talent available through the annual Rome Prize Fellowships competition and related programs; Whereas since its founding, the American Academy in Rome has awarded more than 2,500 fellowships and residencies in the fields of architecture, design arts, landscape architecture, conservation and historic preservation, literature, musical composition, visual arts, classical studies, archaeology, art history, modern Italian studies, and post-classical humanistic studies; Whereas the i^erican Academy in Rome provides its gifted Fellows and Residents with the opportunity to develop and refine their professional, artistic, and scholarly potential through working on their own projects, interaction with their colleagues, and association with members of the Italian and European scholarly and artistic communities; Whereas Fellows and Residents of the American Academy in Rome have included 2 Nobel Prize winners, 4 United States Poets Laureate, 7 National Medal of Arts winners, 9 MacArthur Fellows, and 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, and have won numerous other honors and awards;

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