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Wiseman receives grant from Onassis Foundation
James Wiseman, a CAS professor of archaeology, art history, and classics
and the director of the Center for Archaelogical Studies, has received
a grant from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. The Category
A1 research grant, which is given to members of academies of science and
university professors whose scientific work is widely known and related
to Greek letters, enables Wiseman to spend a month in Greece to meet and
collaborate with Greek colleagues in higher education or scientific institutions
and organizations. He has also been invited to deliver a lecture or seminar
at a Greek university or institute of his choice during his stay. He will
research and work on volume two of the Nikopolis (Greece) Project, an
interdisciplinary archaeological investigation that aims to explain the
changing relationships between humans and the landscape they inhabited
and exploited in southern Epirus from Paleolithic to medieval times. The
project employs intensive archaeological survey and geological investigations
to determine patterns of human activity and to reconstruct what the landscape
was like where those activities took place. The first volume, currently
in press, will be published in early 2003 by the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens. Wiseman, who has received numerous academic honors,
fellowships, and grants and has published extensively, is the founding
editor of the Journal of Field Archaeology, published at BU, and is the
former president and now honorary president of the Archaeological Institute
of America, also at BU. The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
was established in 1995.
SDM awarded $1.35M grant
BU's Goldman School of Dental Medicine has been awarded
a five-year, $1.35M grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support
the school's efforts to increase enrollment of minority and low-income
students into dental schools, increase the number of dental schools with
community-based practice sites, and expand access to oral health care
for vulnerable populations through dental school and community partnerships.
The grant was awarded for the school's New England Dental Access Project,
which will develop and enlarge community-based clinical education programs
at SDM that provide care to underserved populations throughout New England
and develop, implement, and monitor programs to increase recruitment and
retention of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Fear of clowns, rats, mice, and more on National Geographic
Patients treated at BU's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders for a variety of fears, including fear of clowns, rats, mice, lightning, flying, bridges, and blood and/or injections, will appear in upcoming episodes in a National Geographic Channel series on the treatment of specific phobias. David Barlow, a CAS professor of psychology and director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, reports that Coulrophobia: Fear of Clowns, begins airing on Monday, October 14, at 8:30 p.m., and Musophobia: Fear of Mice and Rats, will begin airing on Monday, October 21, at 8:30 p.m. The shows repeat later each week, on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and on the following Monday at 3:30 p.m.
Women's crew to compete in Head of the Ohio
The BU women's crew team will be among 4,000 entries in the 16th annual Mercy Hospital (Pittsburgh) Head of the Ohio rowing regatta, held on the Allegheny River on Saturday, October 5. Hosted by the Pittsburgh Mercy Foundation and the Three Rivers Rowing Association, the event is the second-largest U.S. fall head race, where rowers compete against the clock for the best finishing time. The 2.8-mile course brings together high school, college, corporate, club, amateur, and master's level athletes from the United States and Canada. Proceeds from the event benefit the Mercy Hospital Burn Center, which uses the funds to obtain state-of-the-art equipment to care for approximately 300 burn victims each year, a third of whom are children.
CAS profs at U.N. Summit
CAS Geography Professors T. R. Lakshmanan and William Anderson and MET Professor Lata Chatterjee of Boston University's Center for Transportation Studies recently taught a three-day course, entitled Sustainable Urban Transportation, in Johannesburg, South Africa. They presented the course to an international group of delegates to the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development. The course was sponsored by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration.
BU team members sought for breast cancer walk
Lynne Fielding, a research assistant at the GRS Center for Remote Sensing and a breast cancer survivor, is looking for volunteers to join her BU team in the 10th annual Boston Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk on Sunday, October 6. Registration and a rolling start time for the five-mile walk, organized by the American Cancer Society, will take place from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River. For more information or to make a pledge, call Fielding at 353-8829 or e-mail her at lfield@crsa.bu.edu.
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October 2002
Boston University
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