Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.
When President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in South Korea this week, one topic of discussion will be rare earths, which play an important role in the U.S. and in Asia, where there are many interconnections.
Camille Nelson, the dean at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, said she was surprised when she received the award letter back in August.