The College of Arts & Sciences invites you to our annual Nobel Symposium!

In its 17th year, the Nobel Symposium personally connects us, the UD Community, with award-winning work in medicine, literature, chemistry, economics, physics and peace. UD faculty from similar fields as the Nobel Prize winners will share insight about the winners’ careers and research.

While not required for attendance, registration provides you with event details through a confirmation and reminder email. 

University of Delaware Speakers

• Professor Viet Dinh, Department of English, will speak about Laszlo Krasznahorkai, winner of the Prize in Literature, for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.
• Professor Klaus Theopold, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, will speak about Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, winners of the Prize in Chemistry, for the development of metal–organic frameworks.
• Professor Jeremy Tobacman, Department of Economics, will speak about Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, winners of the Prize in Economics, for having explained innovation-driven economic growth and for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction.
• Professor Ramona Neunuebel, Department of Biological Sciences, will speak about Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, winners of the Prize in Medicine, for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
• Professor and Chair, Mónica Domínguez Torres, Department of Art History, will speak about Maria Corina Machado, winner of the Prize in Peace, for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
• Professor Yafei Ren, Department of Physics and Astronomy, will speak about John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis, winners of the Prize in Physics, for their work on macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits.