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Vanderslice Professor T.
Ross Kelly (Chemistry) was among seven Prize
Professors showcased on WCVB-TV's "Chronicle." View
segment. In 2004 Kelly was voted Teacher
of the Year at Boston College by the students of Phi Beta Kappa, making
him the first scientist to win this notable award. |
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Professor Larry
McLaughlin (Chemistry) has won two $1 million research grants. The
first was from the National Science Foundation for a 5-year project titled
"Functional Group Interactions in Protein-DNA Recognition" and
the second was from the National Institutes of Health for a 4-year project
titled "Probing dNTP/DNA Polymerase Interactions." These projects
continue his work on the biological chemistry of DNA. The NSF award will
fund studies to unravel how proteins recognize DNA in a sequence-specific
manner, a critical element of such fundamental processes as gene expression
and cell division. The NIH award will fund studies of how DNA polymerases,
the enzymes responsible for replicating DNA in the cell, recognize and use
the nucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) building blocks. Through this study altered
building blocks will be developed that will function as new, effective,
and more selective (less toxic) antivirals for infections such as HIV AIDS
and hepatitis B. |
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Alexandra Pittman (Ph.D. student in Cultural Psychology) has been
awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her
research on how women's leadership roles in a variety of social, economic,
and political spheres can be enhanced through a carefully designed series
of training workshops. Pittman will be conducting her research in Morocco. |
From @BC
On March 1, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, announced the
promotion of 29 Boston College faculty members, 15 of whom became newly-tenured
associate professors, joining Boston College's cadre of permanent
faculty.
@BC recently interviewed 14 of the faculty members who were awarded tenure
this year to learn how they intend to use their new freedoms, including,
in most cases, a sabbatical semester next fall. more/slideshow |
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Kristen Lindquist (Ph.D. student in Psychology) has received a National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to conduct research on how
people perceive emotion in others and experience it in themselves. Lindquist
is currently researching how language influences people's ability to perceive
and categorize emotion in others. |
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Assistant Professor Shana
Kelley (Chemistry) has been awarded a Keck
Futures Initiative Grant, a competitive grant aimed to fill a critical
missing link between research on bold new ideas and major federal funding
programs which don't currently provide grants in areas that are considered
risky or unusual. This grant will enable Kelley, along with Professor Edward
Sargent (University of Toronto), to conduct research on the properties of
PbS semiconductor quantum dots built using DNA molecules, a novel class
of hybrid inorganic bionanostructures. |
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Matthew List '05 has won an Undergraduate Research Award from
the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences for his thesis on
the calculation of Social Security benefits paid to elderly recipients.
Matthew is the second BC Economics major to win an Undergraduate Research
Award from the Academy in the past three years, Brett Huneycutt '03
was the previous recipient. |
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Associate Professor Sarah Babb
(Sociology) has been awarded a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for
AY 2005/06. This award will enable Babb to pursue research on the complex
ways in which global economic ideas rise and fall from historical prominence
within a context of powerful multi-national economic and political institutions. |
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Amrita Bhattacharyya, a fourth-year Economics graduate student, is
being cited in the April 1, 2005 Forbes
magazine article "Good News for Medical Journals." The article
briefly summarizes a result from Bhattacharyya's as yet unpublished
paper, "Advertising in Specialized Markets: Example from the U.S. Pharmaceutical
Industry," which will become part of her Ph.D. dissertation. |
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Choice, a publication of the Association of College
& Research Libraries, has selected Associate Professor John Houchin's
(Theatre) book, "Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth
Century" as one of the most significant theatre and dance books published
during 2004. The book was also a finalist for the George Freedley Memorial
Award, which honors the best English language work about live theatre
published in the US. |
From Front Row
A Faith That Does Justice: A Brief Account of Recent Catholic Social Teaching
The chair of Boston College's theology department, Kenneth Himes, OFM,
reviews the course of Catholic political thought since Vatican II. He begins
with a discussion of the political and cultural context in which the council
began its "political rethinking," and assesses the effect of two
movements-political theology and liberation theology-on the course
of Catholic political thought during the papacy of Paul VI. more
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From Front Row
Writers Among Us: Juliet Schor
Boston College sociology professor Juliet Schor is the author of
three books: The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of
Leisure (1993); The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't
Need (1999) and her most recent, Born to Buy: The Commercialized
Child and the New Consumer Culture (2004), which analyzes the way a
culture of consumption is drastically changing the face of childhood, with
even the youngest children aggressively targeted by advertisers. Schor reads
passages from her book and describes her research and writing process. She
also discusses the reactions her book's publication has provoked from advertisers
and the media. more
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Fr. Ray Helmick, Professor of Theology is profiled by National Jesuit
News. According to Julie Bourbon of the National Jesuit News, "It is
hard to know where to begin writing about Fr. Ray Helmick. An authority
in conflict resolution and mediation, he has worked on some of the most
explosive and important political issues of our time, engaging in the peace
process in Northern Ireland, mediating conflict in the Balkans, working
to establish better relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians".
more |
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Jeremy Bailey (Ph.D. '03) (Assistant Professor of Government
at Eastern Washington University) has won the American Political Science
Association's 2004 E. E. Schattschneider Award, a prestigious award given
for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year
or the previous year in the field of American government. His Dissertation
Committee consisted of (Dissertation Chair) Professor Marc
Landy (Political Science), Professor Robert
Faulkner (Political Science), and Associate Professor Dennis
Hale (Political Science). A chapter from Bailey's dissertation "Democratic
Energy: Thomas Jefferson and the Development of Presidential Power"
will be published in the upcoming issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly.
Bailey is currently writing a book on Thomas Jefferson's transformation
of the presidency. |
From the Office of Public Affairs
Sumatra quake recorded here: Seismograms
were recorded at BC of the devastating Indian Ocean quake. Weston
Observatory Director John
Ebel comments: MetroWest
Daily News * Boston
Herald * Boston
Globe * Washington
Post |
From The Boston College Chronicle
US an 'Underachiever' in Math, Science: An international study released
by Boston College researchers this week reveals an achievement gap between
US pupils and their Asian counterparts in math and science that observers
say could presage a continued flow of skilled jobs in technology to better-prepared
workforces in Singapore, Chinese Taipei and other Asian countries. more
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From the Office of Public Affairs
Interpreting the Muslim vote: Of all the groups scrutinized since the
election, one has been overlooked: Muslim-Americans. For whom did they vote?
Were they motivated by moral or religious values? Which mattered more to
them, foreign policy or domestic issues? BC's Peter
Skerry writes
in the Boston Globe.
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From the Office of Public Affairs
BC documentarian chronicles Sicily's campaign against the Mafia: For
John
Michalczyk, the campaign against the Mafia's grip on Sicilian life
is an inspiring story of ordinary people fighting for justice. MetroWest
Daily News * Boston
Globe
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From @BC
Professor Jeffery Howe (Fine Arts) is chief curator of Fernand Khnopff:
Inner Visions and Landscapes, a major retrospective at the McMullen Museum
of Art on view through December 5, 2004. Howe talks with Boston College
Magazine editor Ben Birnbaum about the artist's place in the history
of European painting, about notes found on the backs of some of the paintings
when the show was installed, and about Khnopff's remarkable ability to seamlessly
join reality and fantasy. more
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Professor David R. Burgess (Biology) has been awarded
the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher
of the journal Science. Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed
upon members by their peers in recognition of meritorious efforts to advance
science or its applications. more
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David Mehegan (Globe Staff Writer) gave an outstanding
review to Associate Professor Elizabeth
Graver's (English) third book, Awake, in the September 30 issue
of The
Boston Globe. |
From @BC:
Freshman concerns
31 faculty will join Boston College this fall and winter. Ranging in
age from 27 to 48, they come from across the U.S. and three foreign countries.
Some have just completed their dissertations; others arrive with decades
of experience at other universities. One experience they all have in common
is that each has devoted thousands of hours of thought and work to an area
of specialized research. In interviews with @BC, nine new faculty talk about
their scholarly obsessions. more |
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Assistant Professor Shana
O. Kelley (Chemistry) has been named by the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology magazine, Technology Review to its list of the world's 100
Top Young Innovators. more |
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A team consisting of Yang Wang (Ph.D. doctoral student in Physics),
his ad visor Professor Zhifeng
Ren (Physics), Professor Krzysztof
Kempa (Physics), Lab Director/Lecturer Andrzej
Herczynski (Physics), Thomas Kempa '04 (Marshall Scholarship
recipient), and colleagues at the Natick Army Laboratory have invented an
antenna that captures visible light, similar to radio antennas capturing
radio waves. Once properly developed, the device, made from tiny carbon
nanotubes, might serve as the basis for an optical television or for converting
solar energy into electricity. Nature
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• Reuters
• Applied Physics
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Director Paul
Schervish (Center on
Wealth and Philanthropy, formerly named Social Welfare Research Institute)
has been named to the NonProfit Times "Power
and Influence Top 50" for the fifth consecutive year. NPT states
"There is nobody better at studying the forms, trends, and motives
surrounding the meaning and practice of care and giving in this age of affluence.
Remember, it's not about you. It's about the donor". |
| Dr. Stephen Erickson, Director, Research
Compliance and Intellectual Property Management, has been awarded the
National Council of University Research Administrator's Award for Distinguished
Service. The selection was based on his sustained and distinctive contributions
to NCURA. |
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Professor Solomon Friedberg
(Mathematics) and three colleagues at Stanford, Brown and Columbia have
been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation for their collaborative
research project "multiple Dirichlet Series to analytic number theory".
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from the Office of Public Affair
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Professor Diane
Scott-Jones (Psychology) has been appointed Associate Editor of
Psychological Bulletin, a bimonthly journal of evaluative and integrative
research reviews and interpretations of issues in scientific psychology.
Scott-Jones will begin her term this fall.
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Director Paul
Schervish ( Center on
Wealth and Philanthropy, formerly named Social Welfare Research Institute)
announced that The Boston Foundation has awarded them a grant to support
their research project, "Geography and Generosity: The Boston Area
and Beyond." The project will examine generosity levels in Boston,
Massachusetts and New England, areas often perceived to lag in charitable
giving. According to CWP Senior Research Associate John
Havens, who will direct the statistical analyses, this study will
offer unbiased scientific assessment of how the reported findings about
Boston and the region have been derived and whether the findings are valid.
Press
Release |
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Associate Professor Carlo
Rotella (English), author of Cut Time: An Education at the Fights,
talked about "the connections between boxing and college, scholarly
life and real life," during a July 11 interview with the Boston
Globe. |
| Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR): The
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Research Integrity,
has awarded a contract to Boston College to fund a project on the Responsible
Conduct of Research (RCR). A total of $25,950 has been awarded to fund the
project entitled "RCR Educational Program for Administrative Staff
Members" for the period of September 2004 through August 2005.
This is the first federally-funded RCR program to develop an RCR program
designed for administrative staff. A model educational program and related
materials will be created that will be made freely available to other universities.
The resulting program will also be a permanent part of Boston College's
RCR Program. The project will be conducted under the direction of Stephen
Erickson, Director, Office
of Research Compliance and Intellectual Property Management. Karen
Muskavitch, RCR Program Coordinator, will hold key responsibilities
for developing and presenting the educational program. |
A symposium honoring Professor Lawrence T. Scott on the occasion of his
60th birthday: A one day Symposium on Frontiers in Organic Chemistry
was held on Saturday, June 12, 2004 in the Merkert Chemistry Center to honor
BC Professor Lawrence T. Scott on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Professor
Scott joined the chemistry faculty at Boston College in 1993, after establishing
an international reputation in teaching and research at UCLA and the University
of Nevada, Reno. He served as department chairman in Nevada and was appointed
Foundation Professor there in 1985. Before moving to BC, Professor Scott
also taught classes as a visiting professor at Harvard University and at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Many of Professor Scott's former research students and postdoctoral fellows
came to Boston for the symposium and the attendant celebration, which included
a large birthday party on Friday night and a symposium dinner Saturday night.
More than 80 Ph.D. degree students, M.S. degree students, and postdoctoral
research fellows have been trained in his laboratories, and more than 50
undergraduate chemistry majors have gotten their first introduction to chemical
research working with Professor Scott. more |
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Vanderslice Professor T.
Ross Kelly (Chemistry) has been voted Teacher of the Year at Boston
College by the students of Phi Beta Kappa. Kelly, the first scientist to
be awarded this distinction, was described as an "engaging teacher
whose motivational skills and real-world demonstrations made the most challenging
of subjects captivating." Kelly was honored at the Academic Honor Society's
Induction Ceremonies on May 23. BC
Chronicle / Boston
Globe |
Assistant Professor Marcie
Pitt-Catsouphes (Social Work) has been awarded a 3-year grant
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to expand the Sloan Work and Family
Research Network.
Among its activities, the Network will:
disseminate evidence-based information about the needs of working families
to state legislators and business leaders, as well as to researchers and
students;
monitor bills introduced to state
legislatures that could affect the well-being of working families;
convene bi-annual meetings that promote scholarly discourse about emergent
work-family concerns;
develop a web-supported graduate course focused on work-family issues;
and support a community committed to the work-family area of study. |
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Boston College Educational Seismology Project: Garfield Elementary
School in Brighton, MA and Boston College recorded the P-wave
from the earthquake (magnitude 6.2) in Northern Iran on May 28th. The seismogram
was recorded as part of the Boston
College Educational Seismology Project |
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Professor Lawrence
Scott (Chemistry) an additional 4 years of funding to support his
research project, "Methods for the Chemical Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes." |
| 2002-2003 Distinguished Teaching and Research
Awards |
| Survey Results - BC's
Center for Corporate Citizenship and the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce delivered the first survey of American businesses of all
sizes on The State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S - a
look at corporate citizenship and its impact on the business community.
more
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Letter
to faculty from Michael
Smyer (GSAS Dean and Associate Vice President For Research)
regarding important developments that support faculty and student research. |
| Awards for external funding for faculty research
and other projects reached an all time high of more than $36.5M university-wide
this year. These included: Professor of Chemistry T. Ross Kelly, $288,015
from NIH; Associate Professor of Chemistry John Fourkas, Assistant Professor
of Chemistry Scott Miller, and Professor of Physics Michael Naughton, $1,486,680
from the National Science Foundation; and Professor of Biology Thomas Seyfried,
$234,654 from NIH. |
Since February 2002, Associate Professor Eric
Strauss (Biology) and graduate student Jonathan
Way have been conducting "The Urban Coyote Study,"
a research project of the Boston College Urban Ecology Institute, to gain
an understanding of the hunting, mating, and general habits of coyotes.
Revere High School students have been assisting in the research project.
Boston
Globe |
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Professor Thomas
Chiles (Biology) and colleagues at Boston University Medical Center,
have been awarded a five-year multimillion-dollar program project grant
from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH). Their research will focus on understanding the
growth and differentiation of a small subset of white blood cells called
B-1a lymphocytes (B-1a cells). B-1a cells, which are found in the peritoneal
cavity, and B-2 cells, which are located in the spleen and lymph nodes,
help destroy pathogens that enter the body, and then help the body acquire
immunity against those particular pathogens, protecting the body from future
invasion. However, an over-production of B-1a cells can lead to autoimmune
diseases and leukemias. more
Medical
News Today (UK) |
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Michael
Smyer (GSAS Dean and Associate VP for Research) co-authored
a comparative
study of US and Swedish elder care and found that most Americans over
the age of 75 lack some basic assistance. |
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Professor John Fourkas (Chemistry) and colleagues have discovered
a way to build microscopic structures on tiny biological materials using
a technique called multiphoton-absorption photopolymerization (MAP), a revelation
that could eventually be used to build structures on skin, blood vessels,
and even in individual cells. BetterHumans
/ United
Press International / Innovations
Report / Science
Daily / Biocompare
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Kameliia Petrova's (Ph.D. candidate) paper, Does Motivation Trigger
Autonomy, or Vice Versa? received second prize out of a field of 80 papers
at the annual Southwestern Economic Association in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Petrova will present her paper at the annual meetings of the Austrian Economic
Association in Vienna in May. Economics
Dept. |
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Christopher Gilmore '05, a Chemistry student, has been awarded one
of four Norris/Richards Summer Research Scholarships for undergraduate students
at New England colleges and universities. The fellowships are sponsored
by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. Chris is a
research student in Professor Scott
Miller's laboratory. He submitted a research proposal for work that
he will pursue this summer and during the next academic year. Chris will
also have the opportunity to publish a description of his research in a
fall issue of the Nucleus,
the news publication of the Northeastern Section. |
| John Manoussakis, a Doctoral Philosophy
student, has been awarded a 2004/05 Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.
Manoussakis, the first Boston College student ever to receive this prestigious
award, will continue his studies at BC next year. |
| Joseph Westfall, a Philosophy Doctoral
student, has received a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation
to conduct research at the Kierkegaard Research Center in Copenhagen this
summer. |
Associate Professor Carlo
Rotella (English) has been awarded a 2004-2005 Howard Foundation
fellowship to work on his creative non-fiction: Playing in Time: A
Suite of Musical Lives.
The idea for the book came from an article that he did for the Washington
Post Magazine that was published on June 30, 2002. The article was about
a week at a jazz fantasy camp, and is really about the way that people make
music--and the way that their music acquires meaning--within the constraints
imposed on them by their lives. |
During a recent interview with The
Capital Times, Professor Juliet
Schor (Sociology) shared her concern that, "Television encourages
people to work harder so they'll have the money to buy what they're expected
to have to look successful." In her upcoming book, Born to Buy:
Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood and Culture (due for
Fall publication), Schor describes how, "This New Consumerism Era
has had a devastating impact on our lifestyles and priorities." Schor
has also written two other best sellers, The Overworked American: The
Unexpected Decline of Leisure and The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting
and the New Consumer. |
Assistant Professor Timothy
Crawford's
(Political Science) book, Pivotal Deterrence: Third-Party Statecraft
and the Pursuit of Peace, has won the 2003 Edgar
S. Furniss Book Award. This illustrious award is given annually to
an author whose first book makes an exceptional contribution to the study
of national and international security. |
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Professor Thomas
Seyfried (Biology), along with co-authors Elizabeth Venit '02
and Blythe Shepard '05, have been notified that their research
paper, Oxygenation Prevents Sudden Death in Seizure Prone Mice, has been
accepted for publication in Epilepsia, the Journal of the International
League against Epilepsy, as well as the leading scientific and medical journal
in Epilepsy research. A peer-reviewer for Epilepsia stated, "This is
a very interesting paper on an important Neurological issue. It reports
a dramatic increase in survival among mice experiencing audiogenic seizures,
which in some strains, are often fatal. The increase in survival is produced
by initiating seizures while animals are in an oxygen-rich environment,
suggesting that fairly simple clinical protocols might reduce Sudden Unexpected
Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) incidence in people." |
Major
concerns - Slideshow from @BC
Fifteen faculty members who were promoted to tenure or to full professors
this year answer the question: What problem wakes you at 3 a.m.? |
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Sociology Professor Diane Vaughan's
analysis of the NASA space shuttle tra gedies should reinforce to all social
scientists that case studies can be invaluable. Vaughan, author of The Challenger
Launch Decision, was an expert witness in the investigation of the Columbia
disaster. BC
Chronicle / Chronicle
of Higher Education |
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Dalia Nassar, a Doctoral Philosophy student, has been awarded a 2004/05
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Grant. Next year
Nassar will work on her Dissertation in Tuebingen, Germany. |
Alicia Jaramillo, a Doctoral student in Philosophy, has been awarded
a 2004/05 Fulbright Fellowship. Jarmillo will study at Louvain University
in Belgium next year.
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Rebecca Simmons '04 (Boston College Presidential Scholars Program)
has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Paris, where
she plans to study Organic Chemistry next year. While at BC, she has been
working in Professor Amir
Hoveyda's (Chemistry) laboratory. more |
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Katherine Stainken '04 has received a Fulbright Scholarship
to study Atmospheric Science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany next
year, where she will be taking courses in isotope hydrology and trace elements
in the atmosphere, as well as working in the research laboratory of Professor
Ulrich Schurath. more |
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Professor Marilyn
Cochran-Smith (Education) has been elected President-Elect of the
American Educational Research Association
(AERA); she will serve as AERA President in 2004-2005. She has been
actively involved in AERA for more than two decades. She has served regularly
during this time period as presenter, discussant, symposium chair, panel
member, town meeting facilitator, and mentor for newcomers. more
Aera News |
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Assistant Professor Kevin
Ohi (English) has accepted a Fellowship for next year at the National
Humanities Center in North Carolina. This highly competitive year-long
program offers up to 40
talented scholars, selected from around the world, the opportunity to
work in a stimulating environment for the best new work in the humanities.
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Thomas Kempa '04, senior chemistry major and multiple award winner
in 2004, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF)
Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) award in Physical Chemistry. The fellowship
provides a maximum tenure of three years that can be used over a period
of five years. 2004
NSF Graduate Fellowship Awardees in Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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The Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities (MFH) has awarded a grant
to BC for implementation of the "Still Present Pasts" exhibit,
planned for 2005. Professor Ramsay
Liem (Psychology) is Project Director and will research and edit
all oral histories to be included in the "multi-media exhibit that
explores the legacies of the Korean War and encourages reflection about
the devastation of all wars." Boston College Magazine, Crossing
Over |
Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston
College to
Research Links Between Volunteerism and Growing Retiree Population
Untapped Assets: Mobilizing Retirees for Civic Engagement
CHESTNUT HILL -- As a partner in ground breaking research involving the
role of retirees in civic engagement, The Center for Corporate Citizenship
at Boston College will explore the attitudes of workers, company executives
and retirees regarding volunteerism. The research will involve interviews
with more than 1,000 people associated with 20 leading companies in the
United States. more |
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From the Office of Public Affairs: Prize Time: "Cut Time:
An Education at the Fights" by BC's Carlo
Rotella records a literary knockout by winning this year's L.L.
Winship/PEN Award, which recognizes an outstanding work by a New England
author. "Cut Time" is also going the distance as a finalist for
a Los Angeles Times Book
Prize. Go ringside with Rotella @BC.
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Boston College Educational Seismology Project
Young seismologists at the McDevitt Middle School in Waltham, MA studying
seismograms recorded in their classroom.
The seismograms are the P
wave from the magnitude 6.4 earthquake that occurred in Morocco on February
24, 2004, recorded at McDevitt Middle School and Boston College.
The students are studying seismology with their teacher, Heidi Sardina,
and Boston College graduate student, Heather Bellegarde, as part of the
Boston
College Educational Seismology Project. |
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Maxim D. Shrayer
(Professor, Slavic & Eastern Languages and English) has been awarded
a Bogliasco Foundation
Fellowship, a two-month grant to do advanced creative work or scholarly
research at the Liguria Study Center on the Ligurian coast, east of Genoa.
The Program bestows about fifty grants yearly, based on demonstrated significant
achievement in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. |
Gilda
Morelli (Acting Associate Dean in A&S and Associate Professor,
Psychology) and David Wilkie (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Psychology)
have received a five year grant from the MacArthur Foundation. This distinguished
grant will be used to research the effects of establishing national parks
in Gabon on the lives of people living in or near the parks, as well as
focus on family functioning before and after the parks are established. |
From Boston College Chronicle: A Time for Research and 'Goodwill
Americano'
Fulbright study offers chance for personal growth, say scholars
Back from four months in Seoul on a Fulbright, BC Assoc. Prof. Gil
Manzon (CSOM) values the cultural experience he and his family
shared in Korea. more
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University Librarian Jerome Yavarkovsky has been selected winner
of the 2004 Hugh
C. Atkinson Memorial Award from the American Library Association (ALA).
The award, considered the most prestigious award for an academic library
director, recognizes outstanding achievements by an academic librarian who
has contributed significantly to improvements in the areas of library automation,
library management, and/or library development and research. |
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Professor Lawrence
Scott (Chemistry) has been appointed a member on the Editorial
Board of the International Scientific Journal "Polycyclic Aromatic
Compounds." Professor, Chairperson David
McFadden (Chemistry) stated, "Congratulations to Larry
on receiving this highly visible mark of recognition of his professional
stature and of BC's role in the advancement of chemistry, internationally." |
Biology and Chemistry
Departments at BC Awarded Renewal of Beckman Scholars Program
The Departments of Biology and Chemistry at Boston College have
been awarded a renewal of a Beckman Scholars Program Award, which funds
intensive research experiences for exceptional undergraduates. The Beckman
Scholars Program is a highly competitive invited program, sponsored by
the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Program's goal is to encourage
research training and personal development in gifted undergraduates in
biology and medical science, biochemistry, and chemistry. The Foundation,
sponsored by Beckman Instruments founder Arnold Beckman and his wife Mabel,
has generously invested over 300 million dollars in scientific education
and research training in the United States. more
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Street Justice': Black and Blue: History
Associate Professor Marilynn
Johnson's new book
takes on the formidable and sensitive subject of police brutality and largely
conquers it, thanks to indefatigable research and a rigorous, unblinking
analysis, writes the New
York Times. The book also is favorably reviewed in the Boston
Globe. |
The Journal of Economic Education has announced
the "Top 800 Academic Economists," a prestigious recognition
given to Economists based on their publications during 1990-2000. Two
BC Economics Professors have placed in the top 100- Arthur
Lewbel #30 (top left) and Uzi
Segal #98 (top right), in addition to four placing in the
top 500- Peter
Ireland, Richard
Arnott, Peter
Gottschalk, and James
Anderson. Economics Professor/Chairperson Marvin
Kraus stated, "BC's Economics Department is one of only
ten in the world to have at least two of its faculty rank in the top 100."
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Assistant Professor Sarah
Babb (Sociology) has been selected co-recipient of the Myrra
Komarovsky Book Award for her outstanding book, "Managing Mexico:
Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism." Professor,
Chairperson Stephen Pfohl (Sociology)
stated, "We are delighted to have Assistant Professor Babb on our
faculty and very pleased that her terrific book was named as co-recipient
for this year's Myrra Komarovsky Book Award." |
Professors Susan
Shell and Christopher
Kelly (Political Science) have been awarded Research Fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities. These prestigious grants
enable the recipients to pursue advanced work in the humanities that contribute
to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the
humanities. |
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Professor Peter Ireland
(Economics) has been appointed Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, an outlet for publication of research concerning
all theoretical and empirical aspects of economic dynamics and control,
as well as the development and use of computational methods in economics
and finance. |
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Professor David
Northrup (History) will serve as President of The World History
Association for 2004/05. The WHA promotes activities that increase awareness
of world history, understanding among and between peoples, and global consciousness,
with a primary mission of assisting teachers of world history at all academic
levels. |
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Professor Lisa
Feldman Barrett (Psychology) has been elected a Fellow of the American
Psychological Society, a status awarded to APS Members who have made sustained
outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research,
teaching, and/or application. In addition to Barrett, other BC faculty previously
selected for this honor include Michael
A. Smyer and James
Russell. |
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The University of Rhode Island has selected Adjunct Associate Professor
Michael
Keith (Communication) to receive the 2004 Alumni Association's Achievement
Award for the Humanities. Awards are presented annually to alumni chosen
for their excellence and outstanding professional achievement, and this
year marks the first time an award will be presented in the humanities field. |
