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Week of 11 April 2003· Vol. VI, No. 28
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Boston Scholar Milagros Gonzalez (CAS’89) (bottom right) and students in her history class at Boston English High School. Gonzalez was the first in her family to complete an undergraduate degree program. Photo by Frank Curran

Boston Scholars celebrate 30 years of success in close-knit community of alums

By Brian Fitzgerald
Jose Diaz can say with confidence that his education enabled him to work in a field that saves lives.

Leonid Reyzin Photo by Vernon Doucette

Cryptography can help prevent identity theft, says BU scientist

By David J. Craig
Identity theft is so alarming in part because it is initially imperceptible: a bank clerk surreptitiously jots down a social security number, or an employee at a data storage center peeks at some credit card information. Often victims have no idea how the crime occurred, yet they are left financially devastated and facing the arduous task of righting a ruined credit history.

Richard Lee helps fourth-grader Waleska Brown, 9, with homework after school at Roxbury's Mason Elementary School. Lee spends about six hours a week tutoring students as part of his BU work-study job. Photo by Vernon Doucette

Roxbury youths read and write with BUILD tutor

By David J. Craig
As a BU sophomore, Richard Lee wanted a work-study job where he “could get off of campus and do something to really help people.”

Hannelore Vanderschmidt and Ascher Segall, codirectors of the SPH Center for Educational Development in Health. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

BU Productions wins Telly Award for undergrad recruitment video

By Tim Stoddard
A television and video equivalent of an Oscar, the Telly Award, will soon be gracing the offices of Nancy Marrs, Philip Zekos, and Chris Palmer at Boston University Productions. The threesome recently found out that the 15-minute recruitment video they produced for the Undergradute Office of Admissions won a Telly for outstanding nonnetwork and cable TV programming, commercials, and videos.

ARTS
Mozart's Idomeneo showcases BU operatic talents

By Brian Fitzgerald

Robert Hudson (left), director of Mugar Memorial Library, and Chancellor John Silber celebrated Mugar librarian Enid Wilson’s retirement after 49 years at the University. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
Robert Hudson (left), director of Mugar Memorial Library, and Chancellor John Silber celebrated Mugar librarian Enid Wilson’s retirement after 49 years at the University. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky


Kenneth Kaunda, former president of the Republic of Zambia and the current Balfour African President-in-Residence at BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center
Kenneth Kaunda, former president of the Republic of Zambia and the current Balfour African President-in-Residence at BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center

       

11 April 2003
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