Nobel Prize

Two Americans Win Nobel Prize for Economics
By Jordan Frankel
October 10, 2011 - 1:23pm
Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims awarded for their research on the cause and effect of government policies on the broader economy

The Royal Swedish Academies of Sciences presented The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2011 to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims. The two men were awarded by the academy for their, "empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy."  

Nobel Medicine Prize Winners Announced for 2011
By Sophia Borrelli
October 3, 2011 - 11:41am
Monday's recipients were chosen for their work on the immune system

The Nobel Prize in medicine was announced on Monday. Foxnews.com reported that American scientist Bruce Beutler and French scientist Jules Hoffmann split the prize money, 100 million-kronor (worth $1.5 million dollars) with Canadian-born scientist Ralph Steinman.

Nobel Prize awarded for thin, strong carbon material
By Maddie Dockery
October 5, 2010 - 4:57pm
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to two Russian-born scientists today for their work with a thin carbon material.

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both professors at the University of Manchester in Britain, received the Nobel Prize in physics today for their groundbreaking work with graphene.

Nobel guest
By Michael Masucci
April 13, 2010 - 8:56pm
Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, reads poetry and talks about his life as a writer and poet at Hendricks Chapel.

Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and writer Seamus Heaney gave a lecture at Syracuse University Tuesday evening, April 13, 2010. SU and Le Moyne College students sat impatiently and eager to hear what Heaney had to say.

“I love poetry. He’s the only poet I have come to see here,” said Samantha Kharasch, a freshman modern foreign language major at SU. “As a reader, I understand his works easily. It [his poetry] makes you listen.”  

Striking a balance: An interview with Seamus Heaney
By Tiago Moura
April 13, 2010 - 6:59pm
The Northern Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner went to college and began writing 'to make sense of a life in that time.'

Tensions between past and present, rural and urban life, the individual and the community dominated the early life of poet Seamus Heaney who grew up in the ethnically torn Northern Ireland countryside.

Heaney, 71, came from a place where he and his family “still plowed with horses, lit the fire in the morning, carried water from wells.”

“In very quick time all that changed," Heaney said.

Rapid industrialization in the 1950s pushed his family to a more urban lifestyle.

Soon afterward, Heaney went to college and began writing “to make sense of a life in that time...

The search for missing survivors is called off in Indonesia
By Samantha Lavien
October 5, 2009 - 11:03am
After last weeks earthquake, rescue crews make the decision to call off the search for missing people.

According to abcnews.com, just five days after the 7.6-magnitude earthquake devastated Sumatra Island, rescue workers have called off the search for the missing. Rescue officials say that the chances of survival without food and water for this length of time is impossible, so; instead, they will put their efforts towards aid for survivors. Authorities are using helicopters to take the wounded to the hospital and drop food in isolated locations.