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University President Drew G. Faust will confer 6,777 degrees to the Class of 2009 and students of all of Harvard’s graduate schools in today’s 358th Commencement exercises. U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will deliver the keynote address. University officials announced in April that Chu would be speaker, highlighting his commitment to pursuing alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed...
...crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in economics in 1997 for his work on the Black-Scholes model, ubiquitously used by traders to price options and determine expected volatility.But he has also gained notoriety in financial circles for his membership on the board of directors of Long-Term Capital Management, whose collapse threatened to imperil...
...would deny that Harvard is a pretty darn cerebral place. As we’re so often reminded, it’s America’s oldest college, home to Nobel-prize winning faculty and students who are the country’s best and brightest. In thinking about my past four years here, then, it strikes me as a bit odd that they seem altogether less academic than my high school years. Don’t get me wrong—I’ve taken Ec10 and read Milton—but the lessons that I learned from...
Radford is not being entirely fair: Obama has increased alternative-energy funding to record levels and assembled a green team of advisers. They include his Energy Secretary, the Nobel Prize - winning Steven Chu, who told me recently that "the climate-change problem is at least equal in magnitude" to World War II. He's right. And if Obama wants to win this war, he's going to have to fight, not just make peace...
...that must seem Kafkaesque even to a longtime victim of one of Asia's most repressive regimes. Confined to her home for most of the past two decades, Suu Kyi allegedly accepted a nighttime visit from an American who swam unbidden to her lakeside residence May 3. While the Nobel Peace laureate reportedly urged 53-year-old John Yettaw of Falcon, Mo., to leave, she is charged with violating the terms of her detention and faces up to five years in prison. Analysts call the trial a ploy by the junta to keep Suu Kyi behind bars during next year...