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Blaszczyk pens BHC's 2001 Best Book in Business History

Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovations from Wedgwood to Corning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) by Regina Blaszczyk, CAS assistant professor of history, was awarded the Hagley Prize for the Best Book in Business History for 2001. The award was given by the Business History Conference (BHC), the largest international organization of business historians and the publisher, with Oxford University Press, of Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History.

The BHC book prize committee praised Blaszczyk's approach to the "relationship between business, culture, and society" and her discussion of the role played by manufacturers and retailers in the evolution of a consumer society.

Blaszczyk accepted the award in late April at the conference's annual meeting in Miami. In January, the American Library Association honored Imagining Consumers by naming it "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2000."

BU calling London

Christopher Ricks -- literary critic, CAS professor, and BU's William M. Warren and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities -- launched BU's Distinguished Lecture Series in London at the city's Royal Geographical Society, speaking about the songwriting of Bob Dylan and the art of poetry. The April talk was the first in a series of lectures funded by William Kleh (LAW'71), Patty Kleh, and the Kleh Family Foundation.

Ricks, who codirects the Editorial Institute at BU, "was just the right person to launch the series," according to Ranald Macdonald, director of BU's British program. Among those in attendance were local alumni, current BU students studying in London, accepted and prospective members of the Class of 2005, academics from Cambridge, Oxford, and local high schools, and members of several Bob Dylan societies.

Agni editor wins 2001 PEN award

Askold Melnyczuk (GRS'78), Agni founder and editor, was honored on May 21 in New York with the 2001 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing. The biennial award, established in 1993 and accompanied by a $2,500 prize, "honors a magazine editor whose high literary standards and tastes have, throughout his or her career, contributed significantly to the excellence of the publication he or she edits."

According to Melnyczuk, 30 years ago he founded an underground newspaper that he reproduced on a ditto machine in the attic of his family's house -- a newspaper he later developed into Agni.

"Agni," the award reads, "has become a beacon of international literary culture . . . Among readers around the world, Agni is known for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time."

IBM chooses SMG

Boston University's School of Management has been chosen by International Business Machines (IBM) to teach an online e-learning program to the information technology company's worldwide sales force. SMG will teach IBM's 30,000-strong sales force in 100 countries how to apply e-business to a customer's business model.

IBM already has an established relationship with BU; five times a year, the company has been flying groups of senior sales executives to the campus for one-week courses. "But there were 30,000 other sales people who needed to be exposed to this stuff," says John Chalykoff, SMG professor and director of the master of science in information systems program at BU. "This program is something we can put out all over the world."

In this partnership, BU provides the content and IBM provides the technology platform, Lotus Learning Space. The engine is text-

driven, with rooms for discussion, assignments, and reading material. The course is instructor-led, but students don't have to be connected at any particular time, which allows salespeople from different time zones to participate in the same class.

Johns Hopkins names Ozonoff to Society of Scholars

David Ozonoff, an SPH professor and chairman of the department of environmental health and director of the Superfund Basic Sciences Research Center at BU, has been elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Ozonoff and 14 other esteemed scientists and clinicians were honored during the society's 32nd induction ceremony on May 23.

The Society of Scholars -- created in 1967 and the first of its kind in the nation -- inducts former postdoctoral fellows and junior or visiting faculty at Johns Hopkins who are distinguished in their fields of physical, biological, medical, social, or engineering sciences or in the humanities. Ozonoff has been internationally recognized for his pioneering work in studying health risks to communities from exposures to toxic chemicals.

BMC offers Web link to MedInfo

Visitors to Boston Medical Center's Web site now have access to a comprehensive health site that can provide answers to almost any health-related question. The addition of a link to MedInfo, part of a recent revamping of the BMC Web site, offers users an immediate source for health information -- from diagnosing and understanding an illness to searching for answers about the symptoms of heart disease or the amount of calories burned in an hour. A medical dictionary providing definitions for more than 55,000 medical terms and weekly briefings based on original research from The New England Journal of Medicine are also featured on the site.

Go to www.bmc.org, click on the MedInfo logo, and conduct searches or view pages listed on the left-hand side of the MedInfo navigation bar.

BU awards Medeiros scholarships

Fourteen Boston Archdiocese high school students were awarded four-year, full-tuition scholarships to Boston University as part of the University's Cardinal Humberto Medeiros Scholarship Program. Cardinal Bernard Law, BU Chancellor John Silber, and BU President Jon Westling presented the awards on May 29 at the School of Management's Executive Leadership Center.

BU Chancellor John Silber established the program in 1986 to honor students from Boston Archdiocese high schools for their academic achievement, leadership qualities, and service to their schools and communities. Of this year's 14 recipients, 10 participate in varsity sports, 11 are involved in community service, 4 volunteer at homeless shelters, 3 volunteer at hospitals, one coaches youth basketball, and one created and hosts a music Web site.

With this year's recipients, BU has enrolled 198 Medeiros Scholars, contributing more than $16 million in scholarships to students from Archdiocese high schools.

Klawans' book wins Baron Book Prize

Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism (Oxford University Press, 2000) by Jonathan Klawans, a CAS professor of religion and director of undergraduate studies, has won the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize for 2001. The Baron Book Prize is awarded annually by the American Academy for Jewish Research for the best first book in Jewish studies.

The award will be made at the academy's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in December.

BUSM receives grant from American Cancer Society

The Preventive Medicine Residency Program at BU's School of Medicine, directed by Jane Liebschutz, a BUSM assistant professor of medicine and an attending physician at Boston Medical Center, recently received the Physician Training Award from the American Cancer Society. The award will provide necessary support for preventive medicine residents andensure that funding continues to support physicians who will become future leaders in promoting cancer prevention strategies.

The grant will allow the residency program to offer a cancer-focused residency position and provide the necessary tools to conduct more sophisticated and complex research projects. It will also give the program director the opportunity to develop curriculum for residents in cancer prevention and ensure that residents receive full mentoring and supervision during their residency.

B.U. Bridge wins CASE silver medal

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), a professional organization for those who work in alumni relations, communications, and development, has awarded the B.U. Bridge a silver medal in the internal audience category. This category consists of tabloids and newsletters published for internal audiences such as faculty, students, and administrators.

Awardees in this category are judged on several criteria, including an understanding of the target audience, the institution's mission and how well it's communicated, creative use of available resources, and the periodical's content, writing, editing, design, photography, and print quality.

The B.U. Bridge won a bronze medal in periodical staff writing in 2000, and in 1999 the newspaper earned a silver medal in the category of internal audience tabloid.

CASE is the largest nonprofit education association in terms of institutional membership, which is made up of more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and independent elementary schools and secondary schools in the United States.

COM awarded grant from Eastman Kodak

The College of Communication has received a 2000-2001 Eastman Product Grant from Eastman Kodak Company. Grants take the form of Eastman motion picture camera film and are extended directly to the educational institution in recognition of overall program quality. Use of the film is determined at the sole discretion of the school's faculty and administration.

"We're thrilled to once again be chosen for a Kodak product grant," says Samuel Kauffmann, a COM assistant professor in the department of film and television. "In the past, films made with the assistance of a product grant have won awards at festivals throughout America and brought our film program a great deal of national media attention."

8 June 2001
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