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Distinguished Service Award to Sir Hans Kornberg
The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will present
its Distinguished Service Award to Sir Hans Kornberg, a UNI professor and the
director of UNI, in July at the International Congress of the Union in Toronto.
Kornberg was president of the organization from 1991 to 1994.
MED prof receives ASCN clinical nutrition award
Michael Holick, a MED professor of medicine, dermatology, physiology, and biophysics, the director of MED’s General Clinical Research Center, and the director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic at Boston Medical Center, was honored with the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition for 2003 by the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. The award recognizes Holick’s ongoing contributions in the field of nutrition, particularly involving the role of sunlight and vitamin D on human health and nutrition. He has also been honored with ASCN’s McCollum Award for his research in photobiology and the Psoriasis Research Achievement Award from the American Skin Association.
Jerry Williams scholarship fund to benefit COM students
Christopher Reaske, vice president for development and alumni relations, has announced an endowed scholarship fund in the name of the late Jerry Williams, a radio Hall of Fame broadcaster who pioneered the talk radio format over a 50-year career, mostly in Boston. Known as the dean of talk radio, Williams died on April 29 at the age of 79. “To honor the profound impact Jerry Williams had in giving talk radio its influential voice, and recognize his long affinity to this region, his family asked that this scholarship be created to train future broadcast professionals at Boston’s premier communications school,” says Reaske. The scholarship fund drive is being coordinated by veteran Boston television and radio newsman and longtime Williams’ colleague Ted O’Brien, a major gift officer for the New England area in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, in partnership with WRKO-AM radio. Contributions can be made to the Jerry Williams Endowed Scholarship Fund, c/o Boston University, College of Communication, 640 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. 02215.
GRS alum and playwright wins national award
Molly Smith Metzler (GRS’02), a graduate of BU’s Creative Writing Program, has won the Kennedy Center’s 2003 American College Theater Festival’s National Student Playwriting Award for her tragicomedy Training Wisteria, which was originally staged last October at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. With the award, Metzler, now an instructor in the CAS undergraduate writing program, receives a $2,500 prize, publication of her play by Dramatic Publishing, and a residency at the Sundance Institute in Salt Lake City this summer. Her play was performed last month at the Kennedy Center. Metzler has also received the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, given for the first time to a student-written play, from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award, for the best student-written full-length comedy play. This is the second year in a row that a graduate of the Creative Writing Program has won the major national award for new playwrights; last year, Ronan Noone (GRS’01) won for his play The Lepers of Baile Baiste.
Huntington Theatre Company news
The Huntington Theatre Company is entering into the first capital campaign of its 21-year history in residence at Boston University — a $19.7 million, two-phase effort — to raise funds to build two new state-of-the-art theaters and to endow expanded operations and artistic initiatives. The new Theatre Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, located in Boston’s South End, is scheduled to open in the fall of 2004 and will house the first new theaters to be built in Boston in over 75 years. The larger of the two theaters, a 360-seat proscenium stage in the pavilion, will be called the Virginia Wimberly Theatre, in gratitude for the campaign’s leadership gift from her husband, Huntington board chairman J. David Wimberly. The Huntington will continue to perform at its current home, the BU Theatre on Huntington Ave., and will use the additional theaters for new play development, building and diversifying audiences, creating more opportunities for youth and community outreach, and expanding the existing BCA complex to include more performance venues for Boston’s smaller arts organizations.
Blackmon book collection contest
On Tuesday, May 6, prizes were awarded to the winners of the annual Lawrence G. Blackmon Student Book Collection Contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries and endowed by Blackmon, a bibliophile and private collector.
- First prize: Anna Winestein (CFA’04, CAS’04), for a collection on Ballet Russe
- Second prize: Lauren Elizabeth Upper (UNI’03), for a collection on Renaissance woodcuts and printing
- Third prize: Robert Eamon Briscoe (GRS), for a collection on Netsuke, Japanese swords and sword furniture
- Fourth prize: Carolynne Brown (GRS), for a collection on the history of American Christianity and worship
- Emerging collectors prize: Patrick Burton (GRS), for a collection on the history of evolution
- Essay prize: Alexia Smith (GRS’98,’03), for “Seeds, Glorious Seeds,” on collecting books on agriculture.
Getting on Course for College
Boston University will offer Getting on Course for College seminars to University employees and their children on June 24 and August 13. The program, which is free, provides students in grades 8 through 12 with guidelines to meeting college entrance requirements and includes such topics as college admissions, financial aid, the college search process, and high school course selection and extracurricular activities. For more information, call Patricia Papetti in the Office of Personnel at 353-4480 or e-mail ppapetti@bu.edu.
Note: The Boston University Art Gallery has a new Web site. Check out http://www.bu.edu/art.
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May 2003
Boston University
Office of University Relations