By Scott Jaschik. Three economists were named winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this morning “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." They are: Abhijit Banerjee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Esther Duflo, also of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded this morning jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability." Kaelin is a professor at the Harvard University Medical School and is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Ratcliffe is a professor at the University of Oxford. Semenza is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was named this morning as Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."
And the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was named this morning as Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded amid a scandal over alleged conflicts of interest, sexual harassment and sexual assault involving a man (since convicted of rape) married to a member of the Swedish Academy. More...

Le Prix PEPS "Passion Enseignement et Pédagogie dans le Supérieur" 2019 est destiné à reconnaître la qualité de l'enseignement, à promouvoir le développement de modalités pédagogiques innovantes et leur diffusion au sein de la communauté de l'enseignement supérieur. Plus...