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News & Events

Jun
3
Art Professor Selected

Professor Margaret Bellafiore (instructor, art) was selected to be part of the Boston Children’s Museum’s centennial celebration. She designed a window installation for a letter of the alphabet. Professor Bellafiore said she chose the letter S for “symbol.” The installation includes a 100-year-old American bald eagle, a peace symbol, the Great Seal of the United States, 26 little "dolls" holding semaphore flags, an 1883 silver dollar, quarters and several dollar bills. Also, one of Professor Bellafiore’s students, Ghada Masri, took part with her in a performance at the Cambridge Art Council. The performance included writing 51 names in Arabic calligraphy on a 15-foot-scroll. Part one of this two-part event was photographed and images can be seen here.
Jun
3
Looking at Almodóvar

Dr. Leora Lev (foreign languages) has contributed an essay, "Our Rapists, Ourselves: Women and the Staging of Rape in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar," to the recently published Companion to Pedro Almdovar. Dr. Lev’s chapter suggests that Almodóvar's cinematic reflections on rape offer a more nuanced, troubling, and necessary analysis that complicates – even when it's also clearly grappling with – understandings of rape both within Spain and beyond in ways that resist reductive categorizations. More information about the book is available here.
 
Jun
3
A Musical Presentation
Dr. Curtiss Hoffman (anthropology) hosted a conference at Regis College in Weston on "The Creative Power of Dreams." Included was a special presentation of a paper by Dr. Hoffman on his Gilgamesh Cantata, which included a performance of two movements of the piece by a group of singers including BSU students Karen Sargent (soprano), McKayla Hoffman (soprano), and Anthony Winters (tenor), as well as volunteers Katherine Tyrer-Vassel (alto) and Betty Gilson (alto). Dr. Hoffman himself sang bass. The conference was attended by 53 people from the New England area and was sponsored by the International Association for the Study of Dreams.
Jun
3
Professor on TV
Dr. Phyllis Gimbel (educational leadership) was featured on the local cable TV showWellesley One on One. Log on to www.wellesleymedia.org and under “programming” click on “demand.” Search there for the title of the program to view. Dr. Gimbel speaks with Rama Ramaswamy, a geologist turned poet.
Apr
11
National mathematics honor society inducts 15

BSU hosted the 2013 Abramson Colloquium & Pi Mu Epsilon Induction Ceremony, honoring 15 new members of the honor society. Inducted were Mark Baker, Katie Gruner, Amanda Hudson, Shellie Johnson, Dr. Annela Kelly, Corey R. Ladderbush, Jacqueline G. Lawson, Ashley Minahan, Judith S. Morin, Terry Mullen, Alberto Ocampo, Kerrie Pratt, Kara Marie Plourde, Camille Schulman and Alexandra Vitiello. Pi Mu Epsilon is the National Honorary Mathematics Society, founded in 1914. Advisers to the group are Drs. Laura Gross and Annela Kelly. More information is available here.
Apr
5
Dr. Hoffman completes archaeological report

Dr. Curtiss Hoffman (anthropology) has completed a management summary report on the archaeological excavations at the Middleborough Little League site conducted by his field school students during the summer of 2012.  The overview included a summary results, detailing pit features, artifacts, flakes, organic materials, fire-cracked rock, historic materials, and some preliminary conclusions as to what it all means. A copy of the report has been submitted to the Bridgewater State University library
Mar
20
New international agreements
The institution and its Center for Middle East Studies now has comprehensive and exclusive  memorandum of understanding with Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey and University of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq. The center’s director, Jabbar Al-Obaidi, said, “These new vibrant partnerships have many unique areas of expertise and specialties that will be shared for the benefit of both institutions and communities.” The agreements offer opportunities that include faculty exchange, student exchanges, joint research, joint conferences, study tours, professional development, project on social justice, leadership training, cultural and educational workshop, undergraduate research, graduate advising and mentoring, short time co-teaching, and more. An informational meeting will be scheduled regarding the newly signed partnerships, as well as existing ones.
Mar
13
Professor Abdelal in Oxford

Dr. Ahmed M. Abdelal (communication sciences and disorders) will present his work during the annual Oxford University Education Research Symposium, held March 17-19. His presentation will focus on the effects of adenotonsillar hypertrophy (enlarged adenoids) on early childhood communication and neurocognitive development. His research will also be published in the symposium proceedings and made available to educators worldwide. More information about the symposium is available here
Mar
13
Professor Shin publishes two papers

Dr. Yongjun Shin (communication studies) has published two papers on very different topics. The first, “Bourdieu and urban politics: Conceptualizing a Bourdieusian relational framework for urban politics research,” appeared in Sage. The study purposes to build a generic theoretical framework of urban politics, drawing on Bourdieu’s relational sociology and theory of practice. You can read the abstract here: Dr. Shin also co-authored, “Into the world of privatized publicity: online privacy on social network sites,” with Professor Dong-Hee Shin of Seoul National University. They argue that social network sites have affected our perception and concept of privacy. It appeared in the Asian Journal of Information and Communications. An abstract is available here .
Mar
4
The Swimming and Diving Team Holds Banquet
The Swimming and Diving Team combined its annual alumni dinner with its team banquet. The 95 attendees of the Swimming and Diving Alumni and Former Teammates Meet and Banquet included team alumni, current team members and their families, and friends of the program. “This was an unbelievable evening and it really gave our alumni and current athletes a great chance to get together and talk about old stories and new stories,” said Michael S. Caruso, head coach of the swimming and diving team. He emphasized that the event, which was held at the Abington Ale House, forged an important connection between current and former team members.

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