Bostonia: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University

Past Issues: Winter 2006

Features

 

Crude Awakening
By Jean Hennelly Keith
BU Professors Chart the End of Cheap Oil

One of the internal displaced persons camps in northern Uganda. Photograph by Judy Bass An Offer of Hope
By Taylor McNeil
A Pioneering BU Effort Brings Mental Health Programs to the Developing World

Ice Breakers
By Brian Fitzgerald
The members of the inaugural varsity women's hockey team - and their coach - want to build a winning program.

Nancy Drew and the Case of the Mysterious Authors
By Natalie Jacobson McCracken
Melanie Rehak (GRS'94) tracks the women behind the novels.

Ken Sinclair (SMG’74) hands out MREs, meals ready to eat, to an Iraqi family near his base, explaining to the family what the packet contains and how to heat it prior to eating, and making sure they understand it has no pork or other inappropriate foods. Photograph courtesy of Ken Sinclair Dispatches
By Ken Sinclair
Ken Sinclair (SMG'74) spent ten months in Iraq, training Iraqi Army recruits. As his e-mails home show, he was learning as much as he was teaching.
National Braille Press president Bill Raeder with the Braille edition of the 1999 book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The Boston-based publishing house has produced all the Harry Potter books, including last summer’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Photograph by Frank Curran A Touch of Reading
By Cynthia K. Buccini
Bill Raeder (CAS'60, GRS'64), president of the National Braille Press, champions Braille literacy.
Photograph by Vernon Doucette A Teacher and a Scholar
By Vicky Waltz
Award-winning Professor Charles Rzepka's interests range from nineteenth-century British literature to ancient Greek drama, but it's detective fiction that sparks his muse.
Treasure Hunter
By Tricia Brick
Drawing on his psychology training, BU's David Somers cracks the code.
Obituaries

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