8:48 a.m., Oct. 29, 2009----The University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences will close its 2009 Nobel Prize symposium with three presentations from 2-4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 30, in the Trabant University Center Theatre.

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At the Oct. 30 symposium, Brian Bahnson, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, will discuss the Nobel Prize in chemistry; Monika Shafi, Elias Ahuja Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures and director of the Women's Studies Program, will discuss the literature prize; and Jeffrey Miller, professor of economics, will discuss the economics prize.

This year's chemistry prize was awarded for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University and Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

The literature prize was awarded to Herta Mulla of Germany "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" and the economics prize to Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University and Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California Berkeley for anaylsis in economic governance.

Last Friday's symposium featured comments by Zhihao Zhuang, assistant professor of chemistry, who discussed the Nobel Prize in medicine; Barry Walker, professor of physics, who discussed the physics prize; and David Wilson, assistant professor of political science and international relations, who discussed the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to President Barack Obama.