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4 unusual facts about Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children


Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology

The current editors-in-chief are Jennifer Shroff Pendley (Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children) and W. Douglas Tynan (Nemours Health and Prevention Services).

DuPont Experimental Station

The Experimental Station is east from Hagley Museum and west-southwest from the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.

Jessie Ball duPont

She also sat on the boards at the Alfred I. duPont Institute for Crippled Children at Nemours and the St. Joe Paper Company in Jacksonville, serving as Chairman at the latter.

Woodbrook, Delaware

Major nearby employers include the North American headquarters for AstraZeneca, the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, and the DuPont Experimental Station.


Alexander P. de Seversky

Seversky was a founder and trustee of the New York Institute of Technology, which in 1972 acquired an elegant mansion originally built by Alfred I. du Pont.

Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz

Appointed to the chief command against the Hungarian revolutionaries under Lajos Kossuth, he gained some early successes and reoccupied Buda and Pest (January 1849), but by his slowness in pursuit he allowed the enemy to rally in superior numbers and to prevent an effective concentration of the Austrian forces.

David Hepp

Hepp received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award "for excellence in television journalism" as well as awards from the Associated Press, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York State Broadcasters Association.

E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company

I. du Pont de Nemours Company was the holding company formed in the early 1900s by T. Coleman du Pont, Alfred I. du Pont and Pierre S. du Pont to save the family business from being bought out by a rival.

N. J. Burkett

Burkett is best known for his coverage of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, for which he shared or was awarded-outright many prestigious honors including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding On-Camera Achievement from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Renee Tajima-Peña

Her honors include an Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Alpert Award for Film/Video, the James Wong Howe “Jimmie” Award, the Justice in Action Award, and two International Documentary Association Achievement Awards (one shared), the Media Achievement Award from MANAA, the Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award and the APEX Excellence in the Arts Award.

WCAI

In 2007, the station won the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, often called the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism, for a 20-part series called Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands.


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