RVI Fellow Conradin Perner (Kwacakworo), was awarded the Yellow Star medal by the President of the Republic of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit shortly after South Sudan's independence day. A renowned ethnographer of the Anyuak and a founder of the Gurtong Trust, Dr. Perner was the first recipient of the medal, based on the star in the flag of the new Republic of South Sudan. A Personal Life, the fourth volume of The Anyuak – Living on Earth in the Sky, Kwacakworo's projected eight-volume account of Anyuak culture, was published recently in Switzerland.