Prof. Jeffrey Cohen (CSOM) was the recipient of the 2012 Notable Contribution to Auditing Literature presented by the American Accounting Association. He was also appointed an editor at Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.
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Newsmakers
Following the recent public tiff between President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Prof. Marc Landy (Political Science), co-author of the book Presidential Greatness, was interviewed by USAToday.com about civility in politics and presidencies past and present.
Staying active late in life, epxerts say, confers physical and metnal benefits and it leads to greater happiness. But a new study led by Jacquelyn James, Elyssa Besen, Christina Matz-Costa and Macie Pitt-Catsouphes of The Sloan Center on Aging & Work -- and cited by Time.com, SmartMoney.com. and USAToday -- draws a distinction between those who are merely involved in an activity and those who are engaged.
Prof. Ray Madoff (Law) offered her views to WGBH-TV’s “Greater Boston” on the debate over tax fairness, revived by the recent release of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns.
Boston Magazine interviewed Assoc. Prof. Natasha Sarkisian (Sociology), co-author of the new book Nuclear Family Values, Extended Family Lives, about her research on unmarried adults for an article on the increased numbers and high satisfaction levels of singles in America.
Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern Languages) was interviewed by Crimean TV/Simferopol about his research on Ilya Selvinsky and the Holocaust in the Crimea
While progressives disagree with conservatives over the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v FEC, there is a lot of disagreement among them about what to do, wrote Prof. Kent Greenfield (Law) in the Huffington Post.
Assoc. Prof. C. Shawn McGuffey (Sociology) was interviewed for WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” about the growing mixed race population in the US.
Publications
Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures) published “Jewish-Russian Poets bearing Witness to the Shoah, 1941-1946: Textual Evidence and Preliminary Conclusions” in Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Founders Professor in Theology James F. Keenan, SJ, published “Bernard Häring’s Influence on American Catholic Moral Theology” in Journal of Moral Theology, and the entries “Conscience,” “Contrition,” “Double Effect, Principle of,” “Habit” and “Subsidiarity” in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics.
Prof. Emeritus Harvey D. Egan, SJ (Theology), published several entries in the four-volume Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, and an article commemorating the centenary of Evelyn Underhill’s Mysticism in The Way.
Prof. Solomon Friedberg (Mathematics) has published “Schur polynomials and the Yang-Baxter equation” in Communications in Mathematical Physics and “Eisenstein series, crystals and ice” in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. His book Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series: Type A Combinatorial Theory was chosen as Volume 175 in the series Annals of Mathematics Studies, Princeton University Press
The Boston College Chief Executives' Club of Boston has been named the No. 1 regional speaking venue for the nation's top women business executives by Weber Shandwick, a leading global public relations agency.
Nota Bene
Margaret O’Brien Flatley Professor of Theology Roberto S. Goizueta has been named winner of the 2012 Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence, which recognizes the contributions of contemporary theologians working, writing, and teaching in light of tradition and moving the tradition forward in meeting the challenges of today.
Goizueta received the award — named for Cardinal Yves Congar (1904-1995) — at a Jan. 13 event at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla., where he delivered a presentation titled “Against the Pursuit of Happiness: The Preferential Option for the Poor and the Denial of Death.”
Goizueta, past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States, is the author of Christ Our Companion: Toward a Theological Aesthetics of Liberation and Caminemos con Jesús: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment, which was honored by the Catholic Press Association.
Time And A Half
Prof. Zhijie Xiao (Economics) chaired a session at the Tsinghua International Conference in Econometrics in Beijing.