Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

U of C plans $200M Friedman Institute (Crain's Chicago Business)

15 May 2008

(Crain’s) — The University of Chicago announced Thursday that it is creating a $200-million economics institute to honor the late Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winner and longtime faculty member. The Milton Friedman Institute will ease into existence this fall with activities and ...

AUS Tertiary Update (Scoop.co.nz)

15 May 2008

Lincoln fails in bid to shift hearing Lincoln University management has failed in its bid to stop the employment court deciding whether or not the university was justified in sacking one of its senior staff members, Associate Professor Glenn Stewart, last July. The case is now being set down for a five day hearing in the court, expected to start in late August or early September.

In print (Science News)

12 May 2008

Competitors will descend upon Atlanta this week for an event of Olympic proportions: the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Instead of bobsleds and basketballs, entrants may have trained with beakers and Bunsen burners, and now will gather to flex their mental muscles at the world’s largest high-school science competition.