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MED acting dean and acting provost appointed
Two longtime MED faculty members have been named acting dean of MED and acting provost of the Medical Campus. John McCahan, who has been MED associate dean of academic affairs and a MED associate professor of medicine since 1976, a MED professor of family medicine since 1999, and an attending physician at Boston Medical Center's Geriatrics/Home Service since 1976, has been named acting dean of the School of Medicine. The new acting provost, Norman Levinsky, has been MED associate provost since 1997, is a MED professor, and was chairman of medicine and chief of medicine at Boston Medical Center and its predecessor hospitals, Boston City Hospital and University Hospital, from 1972 to 1997. “Both John and Norman are experienced administrators who are extremely qualified to take on their new roles and will do so in a highly competent manner,” says Aram Chobanian, former MED dean and Medical Campus provost and currently president ad interim of the University. “I thank them profusely for their willingness to assume these additional responsibilities.”
Chobanian taps NIH director for new MED, SPH positions
President ad interim Aram Chobanian has appointed Gerald Keusch to head the University's international health efforts in the newly created positions of assistant provost for global health at the Medical Center and associate dean for global health at the School of Public Health, beginning January 1, 2004. Keusch, who is the associate director of international research and director of the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, will also serve as an SPH professor of international health and a MED professor of medicine. “The recruitment of Dr. Keusch vaults Boston University and the School of Public Health into the first rank of programs that are working to address the increasingly important and difficult challenges of global health,” says Chobanian. “His extensive international experience and research background will be invaluable to his colleagues and to our students as we build on an already outstanding program in global health at BU Medical Center and across the University.”
Keusch has played a central role in international health research and policy issues at the NIH since 1998. Under his leadership, the programs of the Fogarty International Center expanded to address not only pressing global issues in infectious diseases, but also in critical issues such as the ethical conduct of research, intellectual property rights and global public goods, and the impact of improved health on economic development.
MED prof receives award from American Cancer Society
Tracy Battaglia (CAS'92, MED'96, SPH'01), a MED assistant professor of medicine, research director of MED's National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, and
a BMC general internal medicine physician, was recently honored with an American Cancer Society Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians. The three-year, $165,000 award will help fund a research study to address the long-term objective of reducing racial disparity in cancer mortality among African-American women by improving screening behaviors. Battaglia's research focuses on physician and
patient behaviors in health promotion and disease prevention among underserved women.
Prof wins Pope Center's Caldwell Award
Anthropologist Peter Wood, a BU associate professor, received the Caldwell Award for Leadership in Higher Education for his 2003 book Diversity: The Invention of a Concept. The award was given by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, founded in 1996 as a project of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina public-policy think tank. Wood's book traces the development of the idea of diversity and postulates that it became a sacred cow of American public discourse, infiltrating politics, education, the legal system, the business world, and even cultural and religious life in ways that could take generations to correct.
Pinsky and Boston Arts Academy form writing program
Robert Pinsky, a CAS professor of English and former U.S. poet laureate, and Linda Nathan, the headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), recently created the BU Creative Writing Scholars Program, a yearlong writers' residency for graduate students that will serve as a mentoring program for high school students. “Thanks to the energy and generosity of the BU creative writing graduate students, we have a program that should be a model for schools and creative writing programs all over the country,” says Pinsky.
Established in 1999 as a Boston pilot school, the BAA is a collaboration between the Boston public schools and the ProArts Consortium, an association of institutions specializing in architecture and the visual and performing arts, serving 400 students in grades 9 through 12.
Considered among the best in the country, BU's Creative Writing Program is a competitive, intensive one-year master's degree program. Students complete eight classes of workshops and graduate curriculum classes. Through the new collaboration, 10 graduate students in the program will conduct weekly writing workshops in poetry, short fiction, drama, and essays with BAA students, who will then submit their work to the students' arts magazine Slateblue Arts, and BU's Boston Playwrights' Theatre.
Daverio's final book honored
In late November, French concert pianist and historical musicologist Paul-André Bempechat (CFA'00) performed the third of three concert recitals inaugurating the John Joseph Daverio Memorial Endowment for the Arts. The concert took place at the Goethe Institute in Boston. The endowment will benefit the music and arts programs at Sharon High School in Sharon, Pa., which Daverio (CFA'75,'76, GRS'83), a CFA professor of music, attended. The concerts' programs honored Daverio's final book, Crossing Paths: Schubert, Schumann, Brahms (Oxford University Press, 2002) and included works by Brahms, Shumann, and Schubert.
Best Paper award to SMG grad
Fiona Wilson (SMG'03) will receive a Best Paper award at the U.S. Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in January 2004. The paper, entitled Our Entrepreneurial Future: Examining the Diverse Attitudes and Motivations of Teens Across Gender and Ethnic Identity, was coauthored with two professors at Simmons School of Management and focuses on teens and their attitudes towards business.
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