Graduating senior Reynaldo Sylla, winner of the Dr. Donald Brown Award, was featured by the Boston Haitian Reporter, while junior Rui Soares, who earned the 2012 Archbishop Romero Scholarship, was featured in the Jersey Journal.

The Daily Telegraph, R&D Magazine and Science Blog noted remarks by Accenture Professor of Marketing Kay Lemon in the Journal of Service Research concerning a report on “café conquerors” who use personal technology to take over spaces in cafés offering WiFi, raising issues of both customer turnover and courtesy.

Center for Work and Family Director of Corporate Partnerships Danielle Hartmann spoke with Fox News Boston about the increasingly important role grandparents play in raising their grandchildren.

Thaly Germain, who next month will take the helm as the director of the Lynch Leadership Academy — a Lynch School of Education program for early and mid-career principals from Boston’s public, Catholic and charter schools — was featured in a Q&A with Education Week.

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Michael C. Keith (Communication) was interviewed on “Books and the World,” a television program produced by the Cape Cod Writers Association.

Part-time faculty member Mary Sherman (Fine Arts) was profiled in Art New England, which highlighted her work with the Transcultural Exchange, the international art organization she founded.

Prof. Claude Cernuschi (Fine Arts) published the monograph Barnett Newman and Heideggerian Philosophy

Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern Languages) made the following presentations: “Ilya Selvinsky and the Price of Bearing Witness to the Shoah” at Institut für Slawistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; “Faces of a Crimean City in Ilya Selvinsky’s Holocaust Poetry” at Association Franco-Britannique pour l’etude de la culture russe: XXIIe colloque, Université de Caen Basse Normandie; “Ilya Selvinsky. The Poetics and Politics of Bearing Witness to the Shoah” at “Osteuropäischjüdische Literaturen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert: Identität und Poetik,” Tagungam Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.

Part-time faculty member Mark Cooper brought the collaborative sculpture he created for the Berlin Wall commemoration to Strabane, Ireland, where it was reworked as a peace memorial for Ireland.

Ferris Professor and Physics Department chairman Michael J. Naughton presented a plenary lecture at the “Smart Surfaces 2012” conference in Dublin.

Calderwood Professors Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair chaired sessions at the conference “Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam” at the British Museum.

Assoc. Prof. Stephanie Leone (Fine Arts) chaired the paper session “Metaphor and Symbolism in Renaissance Architecture” at the Renaissance Society of America’s Annual Conference in Washington, DC.