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Yale University will honor a civil rights icon and one of its African-American alumnae by naming a new residential college after her. Anna Pauline 'Pauli' Murray, one of the founding [...]

ean Vanier, the French-J Canadian founder of L'Arche, has been awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize. Established in 1 972 by the late Sir John Templeton, the prize aims, in his [...]

Wayne State University's first posthumous degree will go to a woman who was shot to death by the Ku Klux Klan after the 1965 Selma civil rights march. Viola Gregg [...]

An international symbol of the steadfast courage required to demand basic human rights for girls and women in Afghanistan, Dr. Sima Samar was named the recipient of the 2004 Jonathan [...]

On April 14, Maria Elena Foronda was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize, one of six given each year to grassroots "environmental heroes" from around the world. The community activist from [...]

Lawyer-activist Shirin Ebadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her dedication to human rights and democracy in Iran. Brian Murphy (AP) TEHRAN, Iran--The Nobel Peace Prize award for Iranian lawyer-activist [...]

The 1997 Nobel laureates in economics, chemistry, physics, literature and peace were announced in Oct 1997. The laureate in medicine, Stanley B. Prusiner, who was announced earlier, won for his research on prions. Robert C. Merton and Myron S. Scholes shared the economics prize for their work on stock options. Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips won the physics prize for their research on the laser cooling of atoms. Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker and Jens C. Skou split the chemistry prize. Jody Williams won the peace prize and playwright Dario Fo was the laureate in literature.