Sep 13 Watch Microlending Makes Jump to Developed World, Funding Small U.S. Entrepreneurs Microlending Makes Jump to Developed World, Funding Small U.S. Entrepreneurs… Continue watching
Oct 24 Watch In ‘Human Chain,’ Nobel-Winning Poet Seamus Heaney Digs Into the Past In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney -- winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995 -- is a world-famous poet. Now 72, his new collection, "Human Chain," contains poems that are, as always for… Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch News Wrap: Americans Win Nobel for Economic Growth, Inflation Research In other news Monday, two Americans won the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Christopher Sims and Thomas Sargent were honored for their work in the 1970s and '80s on how government policies can affect economic growth and inflation. Also, Syrian… Continue watching
Oct 07 Liberia’s Sirleaf Among Recipients of Nobel Peace Prize On Friday's NewsHour, we'll look at the three women's rights champions from Africa and the Middle East who will share the Nobel Peace Prize. Two of the women are Liberian: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch U.S. Scientists’ Research on Universe Expansion Earns Nobel Nod Three U.S. physicists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering through the study of supernovae that the universe is not just expanding, but speeding up. KQED's Andrea Kissack profiles one of the scientists and his research. Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Nobels Honor Immune System Research Paving Way for New Vaccines, Treatments American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, who died on Friday, for their discoveries related to the immune system. Jeffrey Brown discusses their work with Dr. Anthony Fauci of… Continue watching
Dec 10 Jailed Chinese Dissident Receives Nobel Peace Prize Thorbjoern Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, placed the gold medal on an empty chair in honor of dissident Liu Xiaobo at the city hall in Oslo. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images) The Nobel Peace Prize committee honored Liu… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Economists Earn Nobel Prize for Asking How Job Market Works Two Americans and a British-Cypriot won the Nobel Prize in Economics in recognition of their research into why markets often don't work as expected -- particularly the job market. Jeffrey Brown talks to Catherine Rampell of the New York Times… Continue watching
Oct 07 Conversation: The Life and Work of Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Efrain Kristal, a UCLA professor of comparative literature and of Spanish and Portuguese, about the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. Continue reading
Oct 07 Thursday’s Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Continue reading