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IU Celebrates Professor's Nobel Prize Win

WLKY Louisville - Sat Dec 5, 4:25 pm ET

An Indiana University Bloomington professor wins a Nobel Prize for analyzing economic governance.

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Nobelprize.org Provides Live HD Quality Webcasts of 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies and Nobel Lectures
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Fri Dec 4, 4:00 am ET
Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Foundation, will provide live webcasts in HD quality of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony from Oslo, Norway, and the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony from Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 2009.
Obama shortens itinerary around Nobel prize ceremony
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 1:02 pm ET
Oslo - US President Barack Obama has scratched items from the agenda surrounding his upcoming date to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo, the Nobel Committee in the Norwegian capital Oslo reported Friday. A previously planned press conference ...
Nobel prize foundation frets over its finances
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 12:04 pm ET
The Nobel Foundation might have to reduce the money it awards winners of its prestigious prizes due to the effects of the global financial crisis, its director said on Saturday.
Stockholm send-off honors Nobel Prize winner
Indiana Daily Student - Thu Dec 3, 1:05 am ET
After meeting fellow 2009 Nobel Laureates on Tuesday in Washington and attending the reception at IU on Wednesday, Ostrom will leave for Stockholm on Friday to accept the Nobel Prize in Economics, formally titled the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
IU celebrates professor's trip for Nobel prize
WTHR Indianapolis - Sat Dec 5, 12:13 pm ET
IU economics professor Elinor Ostrom left Friday for Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel Prize laureate to discuss his new book
The New Mexico Daily Lobo - Thu Dec 3, 3:20 am ET
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate has come to the desert to be an advocate for ice. Henry Pollack shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with his colleagues on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former Vice President Al Gore.
U.S. officials see bright future for new Toledo biofuel plant
The Toledo Blade - Sat Dec 5, 6:42 am ET
By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE BLADE BUSINESS WRITER U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, said Friday the technology being developed in Toledo to convert biomatter as simple as yard waste into a clean alternative to traditional diesel fuel is likely to have broad-reaching effects on communities across the world. Mr. Chu was in Toledo, along with Agriculture ...
Obama meets with fellow U.S. Nobel prize winners
Washington Post - Wed Dec 2, 12:00 am ET
President Obama met briefly Tuesday with the other Americans accepting Nobel prizes next week, continuing an Oval Office tradition even though he happens to be among this year's winners.
Why Iran Is Targeting Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi
Time Magazine - Mon Nov 30, 3:39 pm ET
Tehran's campaign to silence Iran's opposition saw officials confiscate Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal from asafety deposit box and freeze her bank account. What's the government so scared of?
Climate change highlighted at alternative Nobel awards ceremony
EARTHtimes.org - Fri Dec 4, 12:46 pm ET
Stockholm - Climate change and illegal rainforest logging were highlighted Friday at an awards gala in the Swedish parliament for winners of the 2009 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the alternative Nobel Prize. We are facing a global climate d...
A growing war, a hurting economy, and a Nobel Peace Prize: Obama's big honor a tricky moment
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Sat Dec 5, 10:51 am ET
WASHINGTON - He's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who just ordered 30,000 more troops to war. He's the laureate who says he doesn't deserve the award. He's not quite 11 months on the job and already in the company of Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama.
Nobel Peace Prize President Obama Calls For More War
OfficialWire - Sat Dec 5, 12:56 pm ET
Perhaps the world presented Barrack Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize to cajole or emotionally beg him toward bringing peace to the planet in the 21st century. Most of humanity tires of war while finding itself sickened at the futility of endless conflict.
Andrew Bolt's mountain of disinformation [Deltoid]
ScienceBlogs - Fri Dec 4, 2:17 am ET
Andrew Bolt claims that "new research" "once more shows Al Gore faked his findings in An Inconvenient Truth" . He offers his own translation of something which he attributes to "Elsevier": (Yes, the company that publishes The Lancet .) Frormer [sic] American vice president and Nobel Prize winner Gore has for years used the melting snow on Africa's highest mountain (5892 metres) for his climate ...
Obama shifts Copenhagen trip as prospects brighten
AP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 27 minutes ago
President Barack Obama is shifting the timing of his visit to an international climate summit in Copenhagen as prospects for a political agreement at the event seem more likely.
Protests add pressure for Copenhagen climate deal
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 12:27 pm ET
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose country is the world's number four greenhouse gas emitter, announced he would attend a closing summit in Copenhagen, joining 104 other leaders including Obama in a sign of growing momentum for a deal.