NDSU Challey Institute to present ‘Nobel at Noon’

The Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth at NDSU is set to host “Nobel at Noon: A panel discussing the 2022 Nobel Prize winners” on Friday, Jan. 27, at noon to 1:30 p.m. in Barry Hall’s Louise S. Barry Auditorium.

The event will feature four NDSU faculty members giving short presentations on the discoveries that led to Nobel Prizes being awarded in 2022 and their significance. A question and answer session with faculty, staff and students will follow.

“This is a great opportunity for the NDSU community to celebrate research,” said John Bitzan, Menard Family Director of the Challey Institute. “Learning about the major contributions that led to these awards will help to inspire and reinforce the strong research culture we have at NDSU.”

Featured panelists include:

• Kerianne Lawson, assistant professor of economics and Challey Institute Scholar, who will be the moderator for the event.
• Julia Bowsher, professor and chair of biological sciences, who will discuss the Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Svante Pӓӓbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
• Gregory Cook, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry, who will talk about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded jointly to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of “click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
• James Dean, assistant professor of economics, who will examine the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel awarded jointly to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for their research on banks and financial crises.
• Andrei Kryjevski, associate professor of physics, who will discuss the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with “entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”

The Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth aims to advance understanding in the areas of innovation, trade, institutions and human potential to identify policies and solutions for the betterment of society.