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Scholarships presented to CFA, COM

Actress Luo Yan (CFA'90) has endowed a scholarship at the College of Fine Arts, announced on March 26 at a special screening of her 2001 film Pavilion of Women at the General Cinema Fenway 13 Theater. Luo wrote, produced, and stars in the screen adaptation of the novel by Pearl S. Buck. The Luo Yan Scholarship Fund will provide annual scholarship awards to one or two female students of Asian descent enrolled at CFA and majoring in theater performance or management, based on both academic performance and financial need.

Also at the screening, Luo's husband, Hugo Shong (COM'87, GRS'90), executive producer of the film, announced an additional gift to a scholarship fund he established at the College of Communication in 1998. The Hugo Shong Scholarship benefits students of Asian descent studying journalism, film and television, or mass communication.

Luo was an award-winning actress in China before she moved to the United States and received her MFA from CFA. She is now a successful actress and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Shong is president of the Asian division of the International Data Group. The couple met while attending BU.

Ozonoff elected to Collegium Ramazzini

David Ozonoff, an SPH professor and chairman of the environmental health department, has been elected to the Collegium Ramazzini, an international council limited to 180 elected fellows, including leading scientists and scholars who are advancing the study of occupational and environmental health issues around the world. He joins two other BU professors who are fellows, Phillipe Grandjean, an SPH adjunct professor, and Roberta White, a MED professor of neurology, who both teach in the environmental health department.

The collegium assesses the potential for injury or disease from environment and workplace sources and transmits its views to policy-making bodies, helping legislators and regulators better understand the public policy implications of scientific findings.

"This is a well-deserved honor for a scientist and activist who has always sought the truth and always spoken his mind," says Robert Meenan, SPH dean. "It clearly shows the esteem in which David Ozonoff is held by his colleagues around the world." Ozonoff's research centers on health effects to communities of various kinds of toxic exposures. He has been lead investigator on numerous major studies of waste sites, including the Silresium Superfund site and a case-control cancer study on Otis Air Force Base.

Recently he has been spearheading an effort to form an emergency preparedness collaborative network in the Northeast to allocate more resources for future catastrophic events, natural or manmade.

The collegium, formed in 1982, has representatives from more than 30 countries. It is named for Bernardo Ramazzini, considered the father of occupational health, who in 1700 wrote On the Diseases of Workers, the first comprehensive work on occupational diseases, which outlined the health hazards of irritating chemicals, dust, metals, and other abrasive agents encountered by workers in 52 occupations.

SSW prof emerita to deliver Cardiff Lecture 2002

Catherine Riessman, an SSW professor emerita and a research professor at Boston College, will deliver the Cardiff Lecture 2002 at Cardiff University in Wales on May 2. She will speak on Illness Narratives: Positioned Identities.

5 April 2002
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