Stuff We Like: SCOTUS reality check; a more self-assured India; public health care; incoming physicist, activist, and dramatist; market watch; and milestones

SCOTUS REALITY CHECK
"Legal Realism Informs Judge's Views" (Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2009)
Law School professor Brian Leiter considers Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a legal realist: "The idea that appellate judges never make law, and only apply the law as written, is a fiction, as every American lawyer knows."

A MORE SELF-ASSURED INDIA
"Good News for Democracy" (American Spectator, May 26, 2009)
In an essay about Indian politics, Harris School lecturer Frank Schell writes, "To state that the challenges to absorb more people into the economic mainstream of India are enormous is a gross understatement. We should take stock that amidst all the world's tumult, occasionally the forces of reason and light can prevail."

PUBLIC HEALTH CARE
"Yeah, We Need That Public Plan" (The Treatment blog, New Republic, May 27, 2009)
Associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration Harold Pollack writes about why "we need a public health plan to have any prayer of making health reform work."

INCOMING PHYSICIST, ACTIVIST, AND DRAMATIST
"Lakewood Resident to Attend University of Chicago" (YourHub.com, Lakewood, June 5, 2009)
Incoming first-year Hunter Davis—whose interests include charity work and musical theater—plans to study physics when he arrives at the University of Chicago this fall.

MARKET WATCH
"How Unusual Was the Stock Market of 2008?" (Fama/French Forum, May 4, 2009)
Chicago Booth's Eugene Fama and Dartmouth's Kenneth French write an in-depth analysis of 2008's market volatility.

MILESTONES

  • "Scientist Wins Prestigious L'Oreal Fellowship" (Argonne Newsroom, May 27, 2009)
    Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded the sixth annual L'Oreal fellowship for her work at the Center for Nanoscale Materials. Santos will use the funds to investigate transition metal oxides: "If we can understand the origin of a material's properties at the nanoscale, then we can design and create new materials for the next generation of electronic devices that meet these global challenges."

May 28, 2009

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