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Kathleen O'Loughlin, CEO of Delta Dental of Massachusetts, presents SDM Dean Spencer Frankl with a chseck for $4 Million on February 17. The gift will launch the Delta Scholars Program Better Dental Care for Massachusetts Children
The Delta Scholars Program, launched this year with a $4 million endowment from Delta Dental, will help place dentists in low-income communities by recruiting qualified minority and inner-city applicants to SDM, and offering partial scholarships to help offset the high cost of a dental education.
APARC Director Ambassador Charles Stith. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

Transcontinental Conversations
To increase understanding both in the United States and in Africa of the differing approaches various African nations take toward African policies and policy-making, the African Presidential Archives and Research Center (APARC) at Boston University established a collaborative in October 2004.
MSW/MPH Program Director Betty Ruth (SSW'84, SPH'85) and SPH Associate Dean Leonard Glantz. Photo by Erika Carrillo (COM/CAS'06) Similar Problems, Complementary Perspectives
As health care has rapidly changed in recent years—including a shift away from hospitalization to community-based care—new roles for social workers trained in public health have emerged, and now almost 70 percent of all social workers are employed in the health care system.
Michael Geiser (COM'07). Photo by Albert L'Etoile Telefund's $18,000 Man
When Michael Geiser, a College of Communication sophomore, works the phones for Telefund, he thinks of it as having a conversation with a former student, not asking an alum for money.
Alan and Sherry Leventhal. Photo by Vernon Ducette Leventhal Challenge Gift is Creating Fund for Next President
Alan Leventhal, chairman of Boston University’s Board of Trustees, and Sherry Leventhal, his wife, have offered a gift of $5 million to encourage other gifts to the University by matching donations in two categories.
Robert and Jeanne Knox. Looking Forward
Asked what he’s looking for in Boston University’s next president, Robert Knox has a long and a short answer.
Illness kept Morgan Friedman (SMG'43) from receiving his Alumni Award from the Boston University Alumni (BUA) association at the award ceremony in October, so School of Management Dean Louis Lataif presented it in his office in December. Friedman holds the award . Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Repeat Giver
In May 2001, when Morton Friedman received the School of Management Alumni Award for Distinguished Service and was thanked for his gifts to the school, he said he hoped to endow a professorship.
Darrell, Avery and Pamela Griffin in Marsh Chapel. Photo by Frank Curran Mutual Inspiration, Mutual Support
Avery Griffin was ten years old when he sang the role of Curly in a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!
Richard Shipley (SMG'68, GSM'72) Photo by Vernon Ducette
Support for Innovation
Among the BU trustees on the presidential search committee who have been inspired by the Leventhal Challenge to contribute to the Fund for Leadership and Innovation is Richard Shipley (SMG’68, GSM’72).
Elizabeth Shannon, director of BU's International Visitors Program and the Trustee Scholars Program Photo by Fred Sway Long-Distance Friendship
Ten years ago, Elizabeth Shannon received a telephone call that would eventually bring a surprising bit of Irish luck to Boston University.
SPH Associate Professor Michael Siegel Photo by Kalman Zabarsky An Inherited Profession
“At seven years old, I got my first teaching experience by helping my mom in the kindergarten classroom,” says Michael Siegel, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at BU’s School of Public Health.
Mary Buletza (SMG'80) Photo by Frank Curran Diehard Fan—of Hockey and BU
There are Terrier hockey fans, and then there’s Mary Buletza (SMG’80). Buletza began attending games as a freshman and has held season tickets ever since graduating
William McCormick (GC'67) Photo courtesy of William McCormick Remembering His Roots
Need-based college scholarships were rare when William McCormick was attending Boston University in the 1960s, so when his father died in an automobile accident he had only one choice—to drop out of school.
At his retirement party, COM professor Otto Lerbinger receives a photograph of the Statue of Liberty, taken by COM Professor Emeritus Norman Moyes (left). Photo by Frank Curran The Most Important Skill
Professor Otto Lerbinger retired last summer after teaching mass communication, advertising, and public relations courses for fifty years—making him the longest-serving faculty member at the College of Communication.
Jonathan Krivine (CAS'72) Photo by Kalman Zabarsky The Peace Process
“Make sure the peace process goes on.” Those were the last words of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, uttered as he lay dying in an operating room in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995, to Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
MED Assistant Professor Avi Spira (ENG'02) at his School of Medicine laboratory Photo by Vernon Doucette Of Genes and Cancer
It’s a startling statistic: some 170,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and within five years of diagnosis, 85 percent of them are dead.
  Growing Connections
By early March, gifts of $1,000 and more to the Annual Funds had risen by 45 percent over that point in the previous fiscal year.