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...Bois Medal, given in recognition for “contributions to the arts, culture, and the life of the mind,” is usually presented to an individual once a year, although the Institute sometimes awards it to groups of people. In 2005, the Medal was given to Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott upon their visit to Harvard...
...means ‘black’ and not ‘white,’ as was, and still is, the prevailing cultural presumption on which our nation’s artistic life is built,” Gates said in a written citation about the medal...
Thirty-seven-year-old Professor of Economics Susan Athey became the first female recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal Friday. The American Economics Association awards the prize biannually to an American economist under age 40 who has made “a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...economists who have received the medal, 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics...
Athey, who arrived at Harvard in 2006 and has done significant applied and theoretical research on bidder behavior in auctions, joins five other Harvard professors who have won the Clark Medal, including Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein...