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To be clear, merit still matters-but it needs a serious redefinition ... Work with a team? And for that, a gold medal just isn't enough.
This gold medal was part of the Medal for Merit award given to Dr. Charles Stark Draper by President Truman on February 8, 1946. Established by President Roosevelt in 1942, the Medal for ...
Award nominations are made by the employee’s department, reviewed by the State Merit Award Board and then approved by the CalHR Director. Since the award’s inception, over 800 state employees ...
Army veteran Joseph Drake, center, is greeted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday, June 26, 2025, during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the U.S. Capitol that honored Army Rangers ...
A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...
CHATEAUROUX, France (AP) — China has won the first gold medal of the Paris Olympics, but its athletes were nowhere near Paris. The Olympic shooting range, a three-hour drive from Paris in the ...
Rachel Panek of Saucon Valley High holds the gold medal given to her by Saquon Barkley of Whitehall during a track meet in 2015. (Courtesy of Rachel Panek) By Sam Farmer. Staff Writer Follow.