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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu reflected on recent changes in race relations and urged continued efforts to help racial minorities during a two-day conference at Harvard Law School over the weekend...
...Wednesday, former Vice President and Nobel laureate Albert A. Gore, Jr. will speak to a crowd predicted to number in the thousands. Environmentalists are bursting with excitement to hear the pronouncements of the godfather of green. More than just excitement is the possibility that Gore’s speech will slingshot the university community into an eco-fervor that will put us on course to beat President Faust’s greenhouse gas reduction goal...
...Nobel laureate Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University. He was chief economist of the World Bank and chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers
...When economists talk about such matters, they focus on the concept of productivity. "Productivity growth," wrote economist (and now Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist) Paul Krugman back in 1990, "is the single most important factor affecting our economic well-being." It was growth in productivity - most commonly measured as economic output per hour worked - during the Industrial Revolution that powered the rise of the West out of millenniums of stagnation. It was a productivity boom that ushered in America's postwar era of mass affluence...
George Palade, a pioneer in cell biology, won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in isolating and identifying cell structure. His research, which he conducted along with biologists Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, used electron microscopy to identify the functions of mitochondria (the powerhouse of a cell) and ribosomes (proteinmakers), as well as other cell components. Having emigrated from Romania in 1946, Palade became chairman of the cell-biology department at Yale in 1973 and then the founding dean of scientific affairs at the University of California at San Diego...