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Category Archives: Awards/Honors
Arts Festival to honor Polito
Poet, essayist and biographer Robert Polito will be presented with the 2013 Alumni Award for Artistic Achievement on Apr. 26 at Boston College’s annual Arts Festival. Polito is being honored by the University’s Arts Council for his distinguished career in … Continue reading
Honors and a new book for Matthews
The Oxford Bibliographies Online was recently honored by the Association of American Publishers with a 2012 Prose Award in the category of eProduct/Best Multidiscipline Platform. BC School of Theology and Ministry Research Professor Christopher R. Matthews serves as editor-in-chief of … Continue reading
Honors for Unheavenly Chorus
Congratulations to J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science Kay Schlozman and co-authors Sidney Verba and Henry Brady who won two PROSE Awards for their book, The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy. PROSE … Continue reading
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Tagged government, inequality, Political Science department
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“Aftermath” a Best Book
Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora by Law School Professor Daniel Kanstroom, associate director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, has been named one of the “Best 2012 Books About Justice” by The Atlantic. The … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Hellenistic, jars, Persian
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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 … Continue reading
Tip @ 100
Boston College is marking the 100th birthday of the late Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr., a 1936 alumnus who rose from his modest North Cambridge neighborhood to become of one the most powerful figures in American politics, with a special … Continue reading
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Tagged Political Science department, politics
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Chemist wins Alpha Sigma Nu Award
Boston College organic chemist Lawrence T. Scott has been honored by Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit honor society, with a 2012 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for his co-edited book, Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes. The Alpha Sigma Nu … Continue reading
Civil War historian
Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a noted Civil War historian, will be awarded Boston College’s first Sesquicentennial Medal in recognition of her excellence as a scholar and leader in the academy on Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. in Robsham Theater. … Continue reading
Another award for The Sojourn
The Sojourn, a stirring novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age during World War I written by Andrew Krivak, a faculty member in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program Boston College, has been awarded the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in … Continue reading
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Tagged A&S Honors Program, family saga, World War I
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