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...Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. After consultation, they followed a dozen other journals’ editors before them by resigning en masse and forming a new open-access journal with a friendlier publisher. Similarly, the Open Access Law Program has 34 law journals (and counting), pledged to making the legal scholarship they publish freely available...
...book “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science” was a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2006 he received the MacArthur “genius grant” for his research and writing...
Nowski said the award was “humbling—a huge honor” that it was “slightly overwhelming” to be feted alongside Faust...
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has won three awards, one honoring his pioneering idea to engage middle and high school students in history and science by encouraging them to trace their own ancestry. For his scholarship, Gates has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Wired magazine, and the National Arts Club. “I’m developing a new way to teach African-American history and science for middle and high school kids,” said Gates, the Fletcher University professor. “History will involve people learning how to do their...
...capacity crowd. “Governor Sebelius is an incredibly intelligent and articulate woman. She is a great role model for all women and all Democrats,” Helgen said. Helgen went on to highlight the reasons behind Sebelius’ selection for the group’s award. “She has governed very well despite being a Democrat in the very red-state Kansas,” Helgen said. “She also has a lot of potential on the national scene. She could even end up being a vice-presidential running mate. It?...