Vanderhooft’s book honored
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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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Expert: The true state of public pensions
In the wake of the financial crisis, everyone from elected officials to the media has pointed to public pension funding shortfalls with alarm, expressing concern that pension promises are unsustainable. BC Drucker Professor of Management Sciences Alicia H. Munnell, drawing upon her practical experience and prior research, debunks the notion that all public pension plans are in trouble in her new book State and Local Pensions: What Now? Her analysis finds that a few plans are in serious trouble and in need of a major overhaul. Many plans, however, are functioning reasonably well, but face challenges. Her book was recently reviewed by the magazine Governing. Munnell is a former member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and currently directs the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
The Case for Lebanon– a review
In a review published in Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Norman Stillman, considered one of the titans of Middle East Studies, calls Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon by BC Assistant Professor Franck Salameh, “a brilliant and erudite tour de force.” He goes on to write that “Although the book provides fresh insights into a different aspect of the Middle East, it is always measured, analytical, and cogently and elegantly argued on the basis of data that has been meticulously researched.” Salameh teaches in the Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures. Read the full review.
Significance of Empathy
A new book by Boston College alumnus Joseph Palmisano, SJ, (Class of 1997), was celebrated at a book launch event held at Boston College-Ireland earlier this fall. In the book, Beyond the Walls: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein on the Significance of Empathy for Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Fr. Palmisano draws from the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Edith Stein to offer an in-depth examination of the significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Fr. Palmisano is a post-doctoral teaching and research fellow at the Irish School of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin.
Susan Choi, Take 2
Susan Choi was originally slated to speak on Oct. 30. This is the rescheduled event: Author Susan Choi will give a reading from her forthcoming novel on Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. in Higgins Hall, Room 300. Choi is the author of The Foreign Student, which won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and American Woman, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O and The New York Times and in anthologies including Money Changes Everything and Brooklyn Was Mine. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.
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