Vanderhooft’s book honored
Boston College Associate Professor of Theology David Vanderhooft has been presented with the 2012 G. Ernest Wright Award by American Schools of Oriental Research for his co-authored book, The Yehud Stamp Impressions: A Corpus of Inscribed Impressions from the Persian and Hellenistic Periods in Judah (Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns). The G. Ernest Wright Award is given to the editor/author of the most substantial volume(s) dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. Vanderhooft and co-author Oded Lipschits of Tel Aviv University were presented with the award last month at the ASOR annual meeting in Chicago.
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Tagged archaeology, Hellenistic, jars, Persian
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Waiting for America
Waiting for America, a memoir by Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer about his emigration from Russia, has just been released in Moscow in a Russian translation. He discussed his work with Russian Journal, a portal and magazine with the largest audience of Russian-language readers worldwide.
Finding home
The Shortest Way Home, a new novel by BC alumna Juliette Fay, has been named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Library Journal. The Shortest Way Home tells the story of Sean Doran who returns to his hometown after 20 years as a caregiver in developing countries and reconnects with his family and the life he left behind. Library Journal says Fay “is one of the best authors of women’s fiction, and her novels are not to be missed.” Listen to Fay discuss her newest book.
Read Aloud replicated on Cape Cod
For 15 years, Ruth Chobit volunteered for Boston College’s Read Aloud program, a collaboration with Boston Partners in Education, which sends teams of BC administrators and faculty to Boston schools to read to students in their classroom. Chobit now reads to second-graders at Stonybrook School in Brewster, where she replicated the Read Aloud program after her retirement from BC in 2010. Chobit, who worked at BC for 48 years and was a recipient of the University’s Community Service Award, was recently featured by BPE.
Fighting cancer
Despite gains in research, diagnosis and treatment, cancer killed 571,000 Americans in 2011. In his new book, Cancer As A Metabolic Disease, BC Biology Professor Thomas N. Seyfried offers an expansive review of the metabolic theory of cancer, from its origins to current research findings to its role in the development of new treatments and therapies in order to fight the deadly disease. Seyfried, a lipid biochemist, said he wrote the book because the research and medical communities need as expansive a definition as possible as to the origins of a disease that has maintained a steady killing pace despite the declaration of the War on Cancer in 1971. “This book is not for my generation,” he said. “This book is for young doctors now coming out of medical school who are looking for a better way to fight cancer. I hope it can be a part of a new era of cancer research, diagnosis, treatment and management.” Read an interview with Seyfried in the Boston College Chronicle.
An intimate look at the immigrant student
In her new book, Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education and the Politics of Inclusion, Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Lisa (Leigh) Patel invites readers to rethink assumptions about immigrant youth. Patel spent years working with an all-immigrant high school in Boston, conducting research on both young people and teachers. Her long-term relationships with immigrant youth and their families have helped her to interweave and intertwine their personal stories with important analysis about immigrant law, health, and education. Read an interview with Patel.
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Tagged education, immigration, law, Lynch School of Education, schools
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