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College Board selects Walter for Guidance and Admission Assembly Council
Kelley Walter, the executive director of admissions, recently was appointed to a three-year term as a member of the College Board’s National Guidance and Admission Assembly Council. The 23-member advisory committee makes recommendations to the College Board’s trustees on a wide variety of administrative and programming issues. The College Board, which owns and administers the SAT and similar standardized tests, is a not-for-profit organization with 4,500 member schools, colleges, and universities. Its aim is to smooth students’ transition form high school to college. Walters has worked in the Office of Admissions since 1991; she had worked in the office from 1981 to 1988 as well.
New Medical Campus Hillel director chosen
Leonard Gottlieb, a professor emeritus and chairman emeritus of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the School of Medicine, recently became director of Hillel programming at the Medical Campus. Gottlieb also assumed the role of faculty advisor and director of the Maimonides Society, MED’s Jewish student society.
Antioch Review honors Cottle
Thomas Cottle, an SED professor of education and special education, received Antioch Review’s 2004 Award for Distinguished Prose last month. A Review contributor since 1972, Cottle most recently published in the journal an excerpt from his book When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother, an account of his growing up the son of a great, but largely forgotten, pianist, Gitta Gradova.
Editorial Institute names new associate director
The Editorial Institute last month named Oxford University Press editor Frances Whistler associate director and director of publications. Whistler will hold the position for three years. She will be available to share her knowledge of scholarly editing with BU faculty and students and will teach master’s courses through the institute.
Moustakas receives $1.2M grant from DOE
Theodore Moustakas, an ENG professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop more efficient and affordable blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He is a pioneer in the development of blue LEDs, which produce light by flowing electricity through crystals of the semiconductor gallium nitride. LEDs are expected to replace incandescent light bulbs in a few years; they also form the basis of blue laser diodes, a key component in the next generation of DVD devices. Moustakas will study hydride vapor phase epitaxy, a new process for depositing gallium and nitrogen atoms onto substrates in the making of LEDs.
8 October 2004
Boston University
Office of University Relations