In light of the previous post about academic level, I am happy to announce that the University of Cincinnati has recently won a very prestigious award – the Ignoble prize. :-)
Here is an excerpt from the page enumerating the winners in each category:
Physics: Katherine K. Whitcome, of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E. Lieberman, of Harvard University, and Liza J. Shapiro, of the University of Texas at Austin, "for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over." (Paper: "Fetal Load and the Evolution of Lumbar Lordosis in Bipedal Hominins," Nature, December 13, 2007.)
(source: http://chronicle.com/article/
For those of you unfamiliar with this esteemed award, the Ignoble Prize is the prize given for researches that "first make people laugh, and then make them think", or as it was initially termed: “for discoveries ‘that cannot, or should not, be reproduced’” (from the Wikipedia site about this prize).
One may only hope that “any publicity is a good publicity”.
And, by the way, the university published this as great news.
