October 26, 2007

Gore's Nobel May Bring Even More Attention on Campuses to Environmental Issues

By RICHARD BYRNE and RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Award for combating climate change implicitly honors the work of academic scientists

When the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize would be shared by Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the award implicitly celebrated a third party — academic institutions. Much of the research on global warming has come from university scientists, and higher education has provided one of the biggest

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