ACADEMY AWARD
Victoria L. Crittenden, associate professor of marketing, has received the 2005 "Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award" from the Academy of Marketing Science. Professor Crittenden, who served as chair of the department from 1995 to 2004, teaches courses in international marketing.
» Victoria L. Crittenden’s faculty page
» Academy of Marking Science
AIDS IN UGANDA
The Graduate School of Social Work has received $150,000 from the U.S. Department of State for an exchange program with Ugandan HIV/AIDS specialists. Seven Ugandan physicians, social workers, administrators, and psychiatrists attended GSSW workshops and, cosponsored by GSSW, spoke at the Annual National Conference of Social Work and HIV/AIDS held in Chicago in May 2005. In the summer, seven GSSW faculty and students traveled to Kampala.
» Uganda's declining HIV/AIDS rates
» Graduate School of Social Work
CHAIR FUND
Professor Arthur Lewbel has been named the inaugural holder of the Roche Chair in Economics. Lewbel specializes in econometrics. The Roche Chair was endowed by Patrick Roche '51, chairman of Roche Brothers Supermarkets, Inc.
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» Arthur Lewbel's faculty page
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
Boston College has received the Mayor’s Achievement Award from the City of Boston in recognition of the University’s efforts “to improve the behavior of students,” particularly those living off-campus in the Allston-Brighton area. BC has hired Boston Police details to patrol the neighborhood with University administrators. A BC administrator is on call Thursday through Saturday evenings to take neighbors’ noise complaints and to visit students in their homes.
» More from Chronicle
NEW NCAA RATING
BC student-athletes have scored well in the NCAA’s first annual Academic Progress Rates (APR). BC’s athletes achieved 979 out of a possible 1,000, compared with the Division I average of 948; schools with similar overall rates included Stanford (979), Notre Dame (980), and Northwestern (980). BC’s football team had the sixth-highest rating in Division I-A, trailing only the Naval Academy, Stanford, Duke, Rutgers, and Rice. The new metric factors in student-athlete retention and academic eligibility.
» More on APR, from the NCAA
» The rankings
ON TRACK
Promoted to full professor this past winter were Stephen Borgatti (CSOM), Michael Graf (physics), Elizabeth Graver (English), Marilynn Johnson (history), Maureen Kenny (LSOE), Hideo Konishi (economics), Joan Lucariello (LSOE), Kevin Mahoney (GSSW), Carlo Rotella (English), Louis Roy, OP (theology), and Ziqiang Wang (physics); promoted to associate professor with tenure were Rebekah Coley (LSOE), Rosanna DeMarco (CSON), Rhonda Frederick (English), Elfriede Fürsich (communication), Pamela Grace (CSON), Martha Pitt-Catsouphes (GSSW), Michael Russell (LSOE), Leslie Salzinger (sociology), Stephen Schloesser, SJ (history), Sergio Serulnikov (history), Susan Shu (CSOM), Andrew Sofer (English), Min Song (English), Mohan Subramaniam (CSOM), and Crystal Tiala (theater). Professor R. Michael Cassidy (law) and Associate Professor Luisa Lambertini (economics) were granted tenure status.
» Interviews with 14 newly tenured faculty, a slide show from @BC
PHYSICS FELLOWSHIP
Physics professor Zhifeng Ren has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, an honor that only .5 percent of the society’s membership receives each year.
» Zhifeng Ren’s faculty page
» American Physical Society
SCHWEITZERS
Three Boston College graduate students have received 2005–06 Albert Schweitzer Fellowships to support their community-service work in health-related fields. Natalie Langlois (law) is a volunteer this summer at the Medicare Advocacy Project, Greater Boston Legal Services. Christine Daniels (social work) advises homeless individuals regarding local health and community services, at the Neighborhood Health Center in Brockton, Massachusetts. And Cherisse Sardon Garrity (nursing) conducts community outreach for the Healing Our Community collaborative program, which provides HIV prevention and education programs to at-risk women in Boston.
» Schweitzer Fellowship program
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