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Newsmakers

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•Captain Sean Morrow, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who served in Iraq, discussed questions about the Fort Hood shootings on WGBH-TV’s “Greater Boston.”

•The Boston Herald profiled Rich Lapham ’11, who has overcome Type 1 diabetes to be a contributor to the BC football team.

•Prof. Walt Haney (LSOE) discussed ninth-grade retention rates with the San Antonio News.

•Adj. Assoc. Prof. Michael C. Keith (Communication) is quoted in The Atlantic on the subject of conservative talk radio.

The Boston Globe's “Globe West” noted the honor received by Prof. Emeritus Rebecca Valette (Romance Languages and Literatures) and her husband Jean-Paul for their humanitarian work in Haiti.

•Asst. Prof. Jonathan Laurence (Political Science) was interviewed for an article about David Miliband in Moment Magazine and quoted in an article about Tariq Ramadan in Maclean’s Magazine.

•University Historian Thomas O’Connor offered comments to the Boston Globe and Bloomberg News on Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s unprecedented reelection to a fifth term.

Publications

Grants

Time and a Half

•Prof. Solomon Friedberg (Mathematics) presented “Metaplectic Eisenstein Series, Twisted Euler Products, and Crystal Graphs” at the Midwest Conference on Automorphic Forms, Representation Theory, and Number Theory, held at the University of Iowa.

•Prof. Margaret Kenney (Mathematics) presented “Regular Polygons: Connecting Geometry with Number, Algebra, and Art” at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference in Boston.

Prof. Fabio Ghironi (Economics) chaired two sessions and presented “Stock Market Listing and Business Cycles with Heterogeneous Firms” and “The Domestic and International Effects of Interstate US Banking” at the 24th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association and the 64th European Meeting of the Econometric Society in Barcelona,Spain.

Nota Bene

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•Joseph T. and Patricia Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry Amir H. Hoveyda, chairman of the Chemistry Department, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the Yamada-Koga Prize, an international award given annually by the Chemical Society of Japan to an organic chemist who has had a major impact in the field of synthesis of optically active compounds. Hoveyda received the award at a symposium in Tokyo last month, where he presented a lecture.

Associate Professor of Law Daniel Kanstroom, along with a team of students from his International Human Rights class, has written and submitted a law professors’ amicus brief to the Washington, DC, Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Al Maqeleh, et al. v. Gates, et al.  The case involves the detention by US forces of civilians who have been detained without access to counsel at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan for many years. The brief, signed by 78 individual law professors and by the Society of American Law Teachers as an institution, argues that the “seizure, isolation, rendition without process, and detention without access to judicial review of non-combatant civilians by the Executive Branch present profound challenges to human rights.”  It urges the court to follow previous Supreme Court rulings that uphold freedom “from arbitrary and unlawful restraint,” and that the court’s interpretation of habeas corpus should comply with, and be informed by, the standards of international human rights law. The team of law students included Esther Adetunji, Alissa Dolan, Robert Hatfield, Kathryn Kargman, Benjamin Manchak, Erin Morley, Ian Read, Kate Voigt, and Jennifer Yeung.  The BC team was assisted by attorney Douglas Baruch and the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.