At the ceremony Professor Dame Carol Robinson, from the University of Oxford, was named Laureate for Europe for her ground-breaking work in studying how proteins function.
Long before there was a downtown dance scene, Buttenwieser Hall was a home to choreographers like Martha Graham, who began teaching there in 1935, while Kaufman was a proving ground for major companies like Alvin Ailey, which unveiled its ground-breaking work "Revelations" there in 1960.