Peter Gross (right), director of JEM, with Romanian Ambassador to the U.S., his Excellency Adrian Vierita, on March 23, 2011 at the Romanian Embassy in Washington D.C.
Dr. Gross received one of Romania’s highest national awards, the “Order of Merit in Education,” Commander Grade.
The President of Romania confers the award, by decree, for “unusual merit in the development of education of different types, levels and forms of organization, and in research, or (for) contributing to establishing relationships between foreign educational institution and Romanian ones.”