The benefit gala for the annual Kyoto Prize Symposium honoring lifetime achievements was held March 12 in La Jolla, with a reception at Zentrl Kitchen + Bar at The Lot and the main program at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
The Kyoto Prize laureates for 2024 are physicist John Pendry for advanced technology, geologist Paul Hoffman for basic sciences and choreographer William Forsythe for arts and philosophy.
The gala celebrates the honorees and announces the annual high school scholarship winners from San Diego and Tijuana for the next academic year.
Since 2004, the Kyoto Symposium Organization’s scholarship program, combined with grants to San Diego universities from the Inamori Foundation in Kyoto, Japan, total nearly $5 million. ♦
