Nobel Laureate

National Medal Awards at the White House

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 05.01.2012

Barbara Ernst Prey

Every visit to the White House is special, but there is something very exciting about witnessing this event. Perhaps it is because I am a painter and I understand the years of work that went into what they have achieved and I can rejoice with them in their successes.

Nobel Prize Winner Dies

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 04.21.2012

ROME (AP) — Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has d...

Global Events Celebrate Success Of Women Nobel Prize Laureates

The Daily Beast | Posted 12.12.2011

This Nobel Peace Prize weekend, Oslo's Grand Hotel is filled to the gills with international guests, including an especially robust crowd from Liberia...

European Union Or Arab Spring For Nobel Peace Prize?

AP | By BJOERN H. AMLAND and KARL RITTER | Posted 12.06.2011

By BJOERN H. AMLAND and KARL RITTER, Associated Press OSLO, Norway -- Arab Spring or European Union? Speculation ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize ann...

STEM Degrees Provide Value Even in Non-STEM Careers

Elizabeth Marincola | Posted 09.21.2011

Elizabeth Marincola

Why are so many young people intimidated by science? A recent study reports that those who pursue a science career both enjoy lower rates of joblessness and earn 26 percent more than their non-STEM counterparts.

St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island

Dwight Brown | Posted 08.19.2011

Dwight Brown

St. Lucia is an earthly, verdant, mountainous paradise perfect for exploration and vacations.

Peace Laureates Take On The War On Women

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.14.2011

Marianne Schnall

Certain topics have always been hard to talk about--rape and sexual abuse ranking high up on that list. And yet we must speak up more because of the many women affected.

President Obama Gets It Wrong On the Price of Oil and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Raymond J. Learsy

We need our president to act on behalf of all Americans to counter and bring to heel the massive influence, lobbying power and money of the oiligopoly. The president does not seem to understand what is happening at the gas pump.

Nobel Laureate Fights To Keep Job At His Microfinance Bank

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus filed an appeal Wednesday with Bangladesh's highest court in a final attempt to keep his job at th...

What Makes Best Friends So Powerful?

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Dr. Cara Barker

What is it about certain best friendships that connects us with the essential, enabling communication to traverse time and space?

Nobel Prize Snubs In Literature

Posted 05.25.2011

Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honored outstanding individuals in the fields of science, peace and literature with a medal, personal diploma, cas...

Obama To Host Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate, For Lunch

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and fellow Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel discussed the need for a renewed Middle East peace process Tuesday dur...

Amartya Sen: The Open India (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Lydon

Amartya Sen, when I ask about this "Year of India," quips that the biggest change in the "new" India is in our non-Indian heads. Meaning: that common...

Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum and PEACEJAM on Global Healing

Lys Anzia | Posted 01.30.2012

Lys Anzia

"During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future," Menchu Tum says with conviction.

Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011

Bart Motes

Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.

The Nobel Peace Prize Decision: Bringing Out the Worst ... and the Best

Lanny Davis | Posted 10.16.2009

Lanny Davis

In such a dangerous world, isn't it time for everyone to apply once again the historic American tradition that politics should end at the water's edge?

Invictus Kicks Off New Campaign for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Linda Milazzo

Los Angeles gets a bad rap. It's assailed for being shallow and rarely acknowledged for its good heart. But Los Angeles has a huge heart - at the center of which is pulsating non-stop activism.

Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate: Whatever Happened to Awarding for Deeds Actually Done?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Russnow

It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.

The Nobel Peace Award Is Not Given for What One Has Done, But Hopefully for What One Will Do

Laura Kiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Laura Kiss

May the American people see this gift of change and work to help President Obama rebuild a nation once loved and now destroyed by the lies of the past.

Kim Dae Jung: A Hero for Peace

Mary Wald | Posted 05.25.2011

Mary Wald

Elegant is the first word that comes to mind. He was warm, with an IQ that kept you mentally running to keep up. He defied death, worked in the face of oppression and gave his all.

Oxford Top Poet Post Spurs Academic Infighting

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON _ A fight over who gets to be Oxford University's top poet has set Britain's pens racing _ and weakened the careers of two well-known wordsmith...

Harold Pinter Does Not Deserve the Post Mortem White-Washing He Is About to Receive

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Johann Hari

Ever since Pinter was a teenager, he was relentlessly contrarian, kicking out violently against anything that might trigger his rage that day.

Desmond Tutu: We Must Threaten Robert Mugabe With Force

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu said Wednesday that the international community must use the threat of force to oust Zimbabwe's R...

Nobel Prize Winner: Blogs Might Have Stopped Hitler

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le C...