 FIVE-YEAR
PLAN
Assistant Professor Shana Kelley of the chemistry department has received
a National Science Foundation Career Award. She will receive $593,000
over five years to aid her research on the molecular properties of DNA
and RNA.
Photo: Shana Kelley. By Gary Wayne Gilbert
Shana
Kelley's faculty page
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Political science professor Ali Banuazizi has been named president-elect
of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), an international
organization of more than 2,600 scholars who specialize in
studies of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Islamic
World. Banuazizi will be president-elect for one year, then
serve a one-year term as president.
Correction (5/27/04): Ali Banuazizi is a professor in the
Boston College Department of Psychology.
Ali
Banuazizi's faculty page
Middle
East Studies Association
THREE FELLOWS
Chemistry professor Lawrence Scott has been elected to the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, which is the world's
largest general scientific society; physics professor Michael Naughton
has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society, an award bestowed
on no more than .5 percent of the membership each year; and economics
professor Arthur Lewbel has become a fellow of the international Econometric
Society.
Arthur Lewbel's
faculty page
Michael
Naughton's faculty page
Lawrence
Scott's faculty page
 FOR
HISTORY
Boston College historians James O'Toole and David Quigley have coedited
Boston's Histories (2004), a collection of essays honoring University
Historian Thomas H. O'Connor's career-long attention to his native city.
Chapters by historians from Brown, Villanova, and George Washington
universities, as well as MIT, BC, and other schools, include "Women
in Boston's Civil War Draft Riot," "The Secret World of Radical
Publishers," and "The Irish Home Rule Issue and Boston Politics."
The book may be ordered at a discount from the BC Bookstore.
Photo: Thomas H. O'Connor. By Lee Pellegrini
Thomas
O'Connor's faculty page
Office of the
University Historian
Order
Boston's Histories through the BC Bookstore
Video from @BC: "The meaning of Tom O'Connor"
SURVEY SAYS
On Student Activities Day last fall, the Undergraduate Government of
Boston College (UGBC) polled students in the Dustbowl on what topic
they would most like to see UGBC address. Of roughly 775 respondents,
29 percent rated the lack of a student center as the most important
issue; 26 percent identified the threat of being subpoenaed by the recording
industry for downloading music from the Internet. Also cited were overcrowding
in the dining halls and the lack of a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
resource center. In the same survey, 53 percent said they felt they
had a voice on campus.
CAMBRIDGE BOUND
Thomas Kempa '04 has received a Marshall Scholarship to study
photovoltaic cells at Cambridge University next year. Kempa was named
a Beckman Scholar in 2002–03.
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Kempa
on his Beckman Scholar work
A FINE POINT
The Fulton Debating Society, under the direction of John Katsulas,
has won the varsity division of the annual West Point invitational
debate tournament for the second consecutive year. Juniors
Kevin Shatzkin and Ben Bireley defeated top-seeded New York
University in the final round. BC will retain possession of
the first place trophy, a West Point sabre.
DEATHS
- William E. Chadwick, director of internal audit at Boston College
since 1986, on November 8, at age 56.
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- Rhoda Kramer Channing, MBA '84, chief CSOM librarian and
subsequent assistant University librarian at O'Neill Library
from 1979 to 1989, on July 25, at age 61.
- Albert M. "Mickey" Folkard, English professor and then
director of the Honors Program from 1946 to 1995, on December 14, at
age 89.
- Yvette E. Forget, secretary in the political science department
from 1964 to 1984, on January 18, at age 85.
- Arthur Harris, student at BC Law since 2001, on November 23, at
age 27.
- John "Harry" Marr, assistant football coach in the
1940s, on November 8, at age 87.
- John J. McAleer '45, professor in the English department
and Woods College of Advancing Studies since 1955, on November 19,
at age 80.
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