celebrities and business moguls — Mike Tyson, Kylie Minogue, Oprah, Ben Affleck, and Bill Gates among them — flock to college campuses to receive “honorary” doctorate degrees. Unlike the students, these luminaries are given a free pass: universities allow them to bypass ...
Everyone can have an honorary degree these days, making it look like a joke. Most honorary degrees are politically given to individuals who make huge contributions to the universities. When these awards become available to the highest bidder, it becomes too common. 4. It has little to no valu...
As you probably expected, I am going resign my position on the honorary board of the FFRF. I do this with great sadness, for you know that I have been a big supporter of your organization for years, and was honored to receive not only your Emperor Has No Clothes Award, but also that...
This was printed as an article in Fra Fysikkens Verden (‘From the World of Physics’) 19 with a whole series of scientific degrees and honorary titles piled beside his name—‘Dr. Ing.; Dr. Ing. e.h.; Dr. med. h.c. R,’—and with the additional information that ‘Widerøe is ...
(Every day is Cat Shabbos.) It’s graduation day at the University of Chicago, when the class of 2023 moves up to become four-year students. As always, we award honorary degrees only to scholars and do not solicit the likes of Taylor Swift to give commencement advice to our students. ...
Jemison is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicineand has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, National Medical Association Hall of Fame and Texas Science Hall of Fame. She has received multiple awards and honorary degrees including the National Organi...
Graduating as a Phi Beta Kappa differs from receiving an honorary notation on a college diploma, such as "summa cum laude," "magna cum laude," "with honors" or "with distinction." Diploma honors are often, though not always, based on how someone's overall grade-point average compares to...
He even turned down two honorary degrees from Chilean universities that received government funding, because he did not want to be seen as endorsing a dictatorship he considered “terrible” and “despicable.” He did spend six days in Chile in March 1975 to give public lectures, at the ...
The only thing likely to force us to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, is morons like “honorary” professors with an agenda pretending to be scientists. 0 ALLAN MACRAE Reply to Curious George September 10, 2020 1:27 pm HYPOTHESIS: RADICAL GREENS ARE THE GREAT KILL...
Gold returns are significantly correlated with aluminium, copper, lead and silver. This suggests that commodity prices in a given time period are influenced by common factors other than the macro-economic environment in the same time period. 17 5. Dynamic analysis of gold and other asset returns...