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...female faculty in terms of salaries, office space, research and positions of leadership. She explained in a New York Times interview that “having women in power sends a message to young women that yes, of course, you can become the president of a university, win a Nobel Prize or do anything. Up to now we’ve been telling them that, but no one was showing them...
...resumed its secret nuclear weapons program within months after concluding the 1994 Agreed Framework with the Clinton administration. For all five years that South Korean President Kim Dae Jung has pursued his “sunshine policy,” a strategy of engagement for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize, North Korean President Kim Jong Il has steadily worked to enrich enough uranium to add to his nuclear stockpile...
...experts in his field, with interests stretching from corporate finance to economic privatization. He is a winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, which honors the nation’s top economist under age 40 and is seen within the field as nearly as prestigious as the Nobel Prize...
...from Harvard’s top professors—including a lectures by University President and economist Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger Porter, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and chemistry demonstrations from Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach...
...ability to solve very challenging problems in a fixed period of time. Students who do well are mathematically gifted, very quick and highly creative." The past winners aren't exactly household names--unless you live in an extremely enlightened household--but they include Richard Feynman and Kenneth Wilson, two Nobel prizewinners. Three Putnam winners have won the Fields Medal, the highest honor a mathematician can receive...