Tag: Roland G. Fryer

  • Campus & Community

    Fryer wins Clark Medal

    Roland Fryer, Harvard’s Henry Lee Professor of Economics, has been awarded the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given annually to a rising young economist.

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  • Campus & Community

    American Academy elects new members

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences today announced the election of 197 new members, including 10 from Harvard.

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  • Science & Tech

    What are the “Hard Problems” in the social sciences?

    Just over a century ago, one of the world’s leading mathematicians posed this question to a number of his colleagues: What are the most important unsolved questions in mathematics? The answers – which David Hilbert then ranked in what he believed to be their order of importance – produced a list of 23 mathematical problems…

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  • Science & Tech

    Posing the Big Questions

    In 1900, renowned mathematician David Hilbert laid down a challenge to future generations: 23 handpicked mathematical problems, all difficult, all important, and all unsolved. Since then, countless mathematicians around the world have struggled to solve the 23 “Hilbert Problems.” To date, 10 have been fully solved, 11 are partly solved or simply cannot be solved, and two remain at large…

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  • Science & Tech

    Four from Harvard win Presidential Early Career Awards in Science and Engineering

    Four Harvard researchers have been named among the winners nationwide of this year’s Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). They are Roland G. Fryer Jr., Patrick J. Wolfe, Robert J. Wood, and Nonie K. Lesaux. The announcement came today from the White House. The PECASE program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who,…

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