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Wiesel on TV
Elie Wiesel (Hon.’74), BU’s Andrew Mellon Professor in the
Humanities and a UNI professor of philosophy and religion, a Nobel Peace
Prize recipient, and author of more than 40 books, talked about his life,
his work, and his hopes and concerns for mankind’s future in Elie
Wiesel: First Person Singular. The show, with his revelations of remaking
his life after surviving a Nazi death camp and going on to write, teach,
and campaign against threats to human rights around the world, aired on
WGBH (Channel 2) on November 14 and 15 and WGBH (Channel 44) on November
21.
AAAS Women in Science grant to CAS physics prof
Elizabeth Simmons, a CAS associate professor of physics, who is working to trace the origins of mass and researching theories to explain what created the mass of electons, quarks, and other particles, received a grant from the American Association for the Advancement of Science Women in International Science Collaboration program. The WICS program, which was launched in 2001, is a partnership between AAAS and the National Science Foundation. It seeks to increase the participation of U.S. women in international science research by awarding travel grants to U.S. scientists to plan and design new research projects with colleagues around the world. Simmons, who spent a week at Japan’s Kyoto University discussing theory of mass origins with two fellow particle physicists, is one of 44 researchers to receive the WISC grant in the second round of awards given this year.
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November 2002
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