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R-E-S-P-E-C-T
In a survey conducted last fall by the public relations firm Morrissey & Co., 200 Massachusetts executives rated 144 Massachusetts organizations on factors including reputation, workplace environment, social responsibility, and financial stability. They ranked Boston College at number two—after Harvard University and just ahead of Fidelity Investments.
» The complete rankings (PDF)
BOUNCING BACK
The annual Middlemarch Ball—which was cancelled last year due to fire safety concerns at its traditional O'Connell House location—was held March 19 at the Cyclorama in Boston's South End (the venue remained secret until the night of the event). About 600 students attended, costumed according to the 2004 theme, "superheroes and supervillains."
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ALL-AMERICAN
Jonathan P. Lennon '05 has received an honorable mention on the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team, which recognizes undergraduate academic achievement and leadership. Lennon, a political science major, founded the Boston Intercollegiate Service Organization, a community service group with chapters on 10 campuses, and he led the successful lobby to ban smoking in BC residence halls last fall.
» More from the BC Chronicle
TRUE VALUE
Boston College Law School was named an "excellent value" on a "Best Bang for the Buck" list of private law schools released in February by the publications PreLaw Insider and National Jurist. Tuition and financial aid, graduates' bar pass rate and employment rate, and faculty-student ratio were among the factors by which schools were evaluated.
» More from the National Jurist
FACULTY AWARDS
Kevin
Ohi (English) has accepted a fellowship to spend next
year at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina;
Carlo
Rotella (English) has received the L.L. Winship/PEN New
England Award for his book Cut Time, which was a
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Crystal
Feimster (history) has been selected for the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholars Program, which
honors young academics who "show promise of becoming
leaders in their fields"; Christopher
Kelly and Susan
Shell (political science) have received research fellowships
from the National Endowment for the Humanities; Lisa
Feldman Barrett (psychology) has been elected a fellow
of the American Psychological Society; Ramsay
Liem (psychology) has received a grant from the Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities to produce a Korean-American
oral history exhibit; Gilda
Morelli and David
Wilkie (psychology) have received a five-year grant from
the MacArthur Foundation to study the effects of establishing
national parks in Gabon; Maxim
Shrayer (Slavic and Eastern languages/English) has been
awarded a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship at the Liguria Study
Center, Italy; and Sarah
Babb (sociology) is co-recipient of the Myrra Komarovsky
Book Award for Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism
to Neoliberalism.
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENT
Jarred Blank, who is receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from
BC this year, has won an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship for study at the Max Planck Institute
in Muelheim, Germany. Thomas Kempa ´04 has received
a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
in physical chemistry. Kempa will be attending the University
of Cambridge, England, next year on a Marshall Scholarship.
» Humboldt
Fellowship
» NSF
Graduate Research Fellowships
» Marshall Scholarship
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