Oct 14 Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity By Gretchen Frazee Esther Duflo is the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics in the award’s 50-year history. She's also the only woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences this year. Continue reading
Oct 14 Nobel awarded to 3 economists for work to alleviate poverty By David Keyton, Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press The Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their studies on poverty. Duflo is the second woman to win the economics prize. Continue reading
Oct 11 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian prime minister By Mark Lewis, Elias Meseret, Associated Press Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was given the award for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea. Continue reading
Oct 10 2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe's fault lines By Jill Lawless, David Keyton, Associated Press The two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes. Continue reading
Oct 10 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke By David Keyton, Associated Press Two Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy. Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch 9:06 News Wrap: Turkey unleashes military offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria In our news wrap Wednesday, Turkish forces crossed the Syrian border, hours after their warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting U.S. allied Kurdish forces. Siobahn Kennedy of Independent Television News Reports. Also, Democratice presidential candidate Joe Biden for the first time… Continue watching
Oct 09 3 scientists awarded Nobel in Chemistry for lithium-ion batteries By David Keyton, Associated Press The prize went to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan. Continue reading
Oct 08 3 win Nobel in Physics for discovering planet and work on the universe's evolution By David Keyton, Associated Press A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Continue reading
Oct 08 William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win economics Nobel for climate change, technological innovation models By Gretchen Frazee The two American economists have not worked together, but both have developed models to study long-term, sustainable economic growth. Continue reading
Oct 05 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad, Denis Mukwege for fight against sexual violence By Larisa Epatko “Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday. Continue reading