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American Poli Sci Association honors CAS prof

Michael Ebeid, CAS assistant professor of political science (American politics), was one of 25 people honored by the American Political Science Association for scholarly contributions. Ebeid received the Edward S. Corwin Award for best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted in 1999 or 2000 in the field of public law at the association's annual meeting on August 30. Ebeid's dissertation is entitled Influencing the Supreme Court: Democratic Accountability and the Presidential Threat to Judicial Independence.

Ebeid, who earned his Ph.D. at Yale, teaches Introduction to American Politics, Presidential Leadership, Introduction to Political Analysis, and Judicial Politics. His principal areas of academic interest are the Supreme Court and judicial politics, but he also works on the presidency, elections, and research methodology.

BUPD joins Campus Watch

On August 22, the Massachusetts Neighborhood Crime Watch Commission (MNCWC) and the Boston University campus police joined forces in the statewide crime prevention program Campus Watch.

The Massachusetts Campus Watch Program, established in 1998 and currently used at all University of Massachusetts campuses, is a collaborative effort between the MNCWC and campus public safety departments. Boston University becomes the first private college in Boston to join with the community policing initiative, which educates and trains campus community members in detecting and reporting emergencies, suspicious activities, or crimes.

"The Campus Watch program should be implemented by all colleges and universities throughout the city," says John Ryan, BUPD crime prevention officer. "Boston University is thrilled to be on board."

More than 350 resident assistants and resident directors who oversee residence halls at BU were trained this summer on how properly to report and detect suspicious activity. These students are now required to spread the word about this program to their peers as well as to make security awareness a regular part of their campus activities. Reminding students to secure cellular phones, computers, compact disc players, and other valuables in their locked room or vehicle trunk, for example, can greatly reduce break-ins.

For more information about the Campus Watch program, call 1-888-80-WATCH.

BU awarded one of first DOE SciDAC program grants

The Department of Energy (DOE) this summer granted a total of $57 million under the new Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program to 51 projects, including an award to Boston University's Center for Computational Science. The grants, which are for this fiscal year, are intended to advance fundamental research in several areas related to DOE's missions, including climate modeling, fusion energy sciences, chemical sciences, nuclear astrophysics, high-energy physics, and high-performance computing.

Claudio Rebbi, director of the Center for Computational Science, was the principal investigator on the BU award. BU's proposal was one of more than 150 received by DOE.

SciDAC is an integrated program that will help create a new generation of scientific simulation codes. The codes will take full advantage of the computing capabilities of terascale computers (computers capable of doing trillions of calculations per second) to address ever-larger, more complex problems, including energy.

"This innovative program will help us find new energy sources for the future, understand the effect of energy production on our environment, and learn more about the fundamental nature of energy and matter," says Spencer Abraham, U.S. secretary of energy.

BU Corporate Education Center expands to New Jersey

Beginning in September, the Boston University Corporate Education Center (BUCEC), a New England-based information technology and management development training provider, will offer its one-of-a-kind project management evening certificate program in Parsippany, N.J. This program is designed to accommodate the needs of working professionals by enabling them to obtain project management training at night.

"Project management has really exploded over the past two years or so," says Mark Gould, director of BUCEC management development programs. "The remediation challenges and brutal deadlines

IT professionals faced around the Y2K bug proved to be a real wake-up call. Projects fail now at a rate of 70 percent, across all industries, because they take too long or go over budget. Having employees with strong project management skills has taken on critical importance to companies around the world."

BUCEC is a certified technical education center for Microsoft and winner of Microsoft's Excellence in Training Award. To date, BUCEC has trained more than 100,000 IT professionals and achieved a 90 percent placement rate for students in its computer career programs and for career transition students.

For more information, call 1-800-BU-TRAIN (288-7246) or visit www.Butrain.com/mdp.

BUCEC wins CompTIA award

The Boston University Corporate Education Center's (BUCEC) computer career programs have received the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) Career Awareness Award. The award, announced at CompTIA's annual conference in Orlando, Fla., late last month, recognizes innovative training programs and exceptional student resources. BUCEC was singled out from a field of educational institutions and training companies around the world.

"BUCEC has always taken great pride in its computer career programs," says Melissa Ryan, BUCEC executive director. "Since 1986, we have been able to help people who have been underemployed or underpaid achieve their full potential by working with them to develop the necessary skills for a successful career in information technology. Our students make a tremendous commitment when they decide to enroll here, and we believe it is our obligation to make the same commitment to them in return."

7 September 2001
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