Amanda Rothschild ’11 was selected as one of 100 “Leaders of Tomorrow" for the 43rd St. Gallen Symposium “Rewarding Courage." The 100 “Leaders” — chosen from a pool of 1,000 graduate students worldwide, representing 350 universities and 81 countries — will attend meetings April 30-May 1 as part of the St. Gallen Symposium in Switzerland. Other attendees at the symposium include: Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying; Vuk Jeremic, president of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly; International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde; retired US Army General Stanley McChrystal; Irish Minister of Finance Michael Noonan; Mohamoud Ahmed Nur, mayor of Mogadishu, Somalia; and German Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle. Rothschild is now a doctoral student in the MIT Political Science and the Security Studies Program.
Angelo McClain, a 2001 alumnus of the Graduate School of Social Work, was named the new Chief Executive Officer at the National Association of Social Workers, the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world. McClain served the last six years as the Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Prof. Michael Noone (Music) presented “Performance criteria in medieval and Renaissance music” at the International University of Andalucía in Spain.
School of Theology and Ministry administrators and faculty members made the following presentations: Dean Mark Massa, SJ, “A Pox on Both Your Houses: Moving Beyond Conservative and Liberal Labels Within the American Catholic Community,” 2012 Mullen Lecture at St. Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology in Wickliffe, Ohio; Prof. Khaled Anatolios, “The Soteriological Grammar of Conciliar Christology,” Thomistic Institute symposium “Jesus Christ, True God and True Man: The Promise of Chalcedonian Christology” in Washington, DC; Assoc. Prof. Melissa Kelley, “The Mosaic of Grief,” American Association of Pastoral Counselors annual conference of the eastern and northeast regions in Williamstown, Mass.; Asst. Prof. Theresa A. O’Keefe, “Growing up Alone: The New Normal of Isolation in Adolescence,” Association of Youth Ministry Educators conference in Dallas; Asst. Prof. Hosffman Ospino, “Faith and the New Evangelization,” keynote address at the Year of Faith for the Diocese of Jefferson City, Mo.; Assoc. Prof. Andrea Vicini, SJ, “Catholic Bioethics and New Biotechnologies: Shaping a Social Justice Approach,” Boston Theological Institute Ethics Colloquium.