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Kepko receives AGU award
Emil Lawrence Kepko, a CAS research associate in the department of astronomy
and the Center for Space Physics, has received the 2002 Fred L. Scarf
Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The award is presented
annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for outstanding dissertation research
contributing to solar-planetary science. The major criterion for the award
is the positive immediate impact or potential long-term impact of the
research, and nominations are accepted from around the world. Kepko, who
finished his Ph.D. at UCLA, came to BU last summer. He will deliver a
lecture on his dissertation topic at the 2002 AGU meeting in San Francisco
in December.
BU celebrates first Tribeca Film Festival
On Tuesday, May 7, COM Dean Brent Baker and CFA Dean Jeffrey Babcock will
join New York metro-area BU alumni and other dignitaries at a cocktail
reception at the Tribeca Grill in New York City to celebrate the first
Tribeca Film Festival on May 8. The festival was created by actor Robert
DeNiro. BU is hosting the reception, which kicks off the five-day event.
It will highlight the achievements and contributions made to the filmmaking
industry by BU alumni. The festival will include feature-length movies,
documentaries, shorts, and student works selected from more than 1,000
submissions, as well as lectures and panel discussions that showcase independent
films and celebrate New York City's status as a filmmaking hub. For more
information, visit www.tribecafilm.com.
Hunter named executive director of MAASH
Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH)
has appointed Daniel Hunter (GRS'99), the managing director of the Boston
Playwrights' Theatre, as its new executive director. He will take over
the new position full-time in July.
SAR to sponsor psych rehab conference
Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Center for Psychiatric
Rehabilitation (CPR) is sponsoring an international conference, entitled
Innovations in Recovery and Rehabilitation: The Decade of the Person,
October 24 through 26, in Boston. Speakers include William Anthony, a
SAR professor of rehabilitation counseling and executive director of CPR,
Courtenay Harding, a SAR professor of rehabilitation counseling and director
of the Institute for the Study of Human Resilience, Marianne Farkas, a
SAR research associate professor and director of the World Health Organization
Collaborating Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at CPR, and Sally
Rogers, CPR director of research. The conference is sponsored in part
by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and
the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health
Services Administration. Register online after May 1 at http://www.bu.edu/cpr/conference/registration.
For more information about the conference, visit www.bu.edu/cpr/conference/
or call Blanca Yanulis at 353-3549.
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April 2002
Boston University
Office of University Relations