Sloan Center on Aging and Work Employer Engagement Specialist Samantha Greenfield appeared on the AARP program “E Street News,” where she discussed how employers have begun to embrace programs designed to recruit, retain and integrate older employers into the workforce.
People
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Newsmakers
BC graduates pitched in for the Alumni Day of service on April 14. (Photo by Frank Curran)
The Boston Globe Magazine tapped Adj. Assoc. Prof. Richard McGowan, SJ (Economics), author of several books on the gaming industry, to assess the prospects of some major proposals for gaming in Massachusetts.
Philosophy and religion ask the same questions — and Christ exactly reverses the world’s concepts on all the most important points, said Prof. Peter Kreeft (Philosophy) in an interview with the Memphis Commercial Appeal in advance of his appearance as part of a Distinguished Catholic Lectors Series.
Graduate School of Social Work student Catherine Kirwan-Avila chronicled her ongoing discernment of the call to religious life in an essay for America magazine.
Time And A Half
Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern Languages) presented “Ilya Selvinsky and the Price of Bearing Witness to the Shoah” at “Jewish Life and Death in the Soviet Union during World War II,” an international conference at the University of Toronto.
Assoc. Prof. Rachel Freudenburg (German Studies) screened and discussed her documentary “FREYA” at the University of Connecticut and Wellesley College.
Publications
Librarians Wanda Anderson, Margaret Cohen, Sarah Hogan, Enid Karr, Barbara Mento and Sally Wyman, along with former science librarian interns Rebecca Holzman and Myrna Morales, published “Science Librarian Internship as a Way to Get Started in eScience” in the first issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship, a quarterly open access, peerreviewed journal published by The University of Massachusetts Medical School.
