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BU’s greater NY alumni club discusses
bioterrorism and preparedness
On December 4, several BU faculty members joined in a panel discussion
hosted by the Boston University Alumni Club of Greater New York to address
the uncertainties about bioterrorism and U.S. preparedness for it. Robert
Meenan, SPH dean, an SPH professor of health services, a MED professor
of medicine, and director of the CDC Prevention Research Center, moderated.
Joining Meenan were Mark Bitensky, an ENG professor of biomedical engineering,
director of ENG’s visual and circulatory biophysics laboratory,
and a principal investigator on several Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency projects that address new technologies for defense against chemical
and biological agents; H. Joachim Maître, a CAS professor of international
relations, a COM professor of journalism, and founder and director of
COM’s Center for Defense Journalism; Wendy Mariner, an SPH professor
of health law, a LAW professor of law, a MED professor of sociomedical
sciences, and director of SPH’s Patient Rights Program; and Daniel
Shapiro, a MED associate professor of medicine and pathology and laboratory
medicine and director of Boston Medical Center’s clinical microbiology
and molecular diagnostics laboratories.
Wylie wins ASA’s Herskovits Award
Diana Wylie, a CAS associate professor of history and a 2002 Metcalf Award winner, has received the 2002 Herskovits Award for her book Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (University of Virginia Press, 2001). The African Studies Association presents the award, which is named for one of the association’s founders, Melville Herskovits, to the author of the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English during the preceding year.
ENG prof judges 2002 best products of the year
Michael Ruane, an ENG associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, was on the panel of judges for the 2002 Design News Best Products of the Year contest. Vendors were asked by Design News to submit their best products introduced from September 2001 to September 2002, and the magazine’s technical editors then narrowed down the entries by category and submitted them to an independent panel of judges. The winners represent the best in engineering design and feature a common thread of efficiency that aims to make jobs easier, safer, and more productive.
BU student athletes give the gift of reading
In a holiday tradition now in its fourth year, more than 75 members of several BU athletic teams will go to several Brighton and Allston elementary schools, the Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Brighton, and the Jackson Mann and Horace Mann School for the Deaf over the next several days, read to second-grade students, and present each student with a book as a holiday gift. Their teachers will receive a copy of Make Way for Ducklings, and each classroom will be given a plush toy of Rhett, the BU Terrier. Rhett will join the men’s and women’s teams, pose for pictures, and sign autographs for the students. Gift books have been made possible through BU’s Business Affairs Office and Barnes & Noble at BU.
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December 2002
Boston University
Office of University Relations