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News Notes – February 18
BU reasearchers contribute to medicinal advancements by Alex Nawar/BU Daily Free Press – Feb 15, 2011 Researchers from Boston University’s Schools of Medicine, Management and Law and the National Institutes of Health have found that public sector research since the 1970s has been responsible for many pharmaceutical advancements over that time frame. According to the [...]
News Notes – November 18
Making it to Year 2 – Effort to help Boston graduates stay in college is showing early success By Akilah Johnson – Globe Staff / November 18, 2010 A fledgling program to stanch the flow of Boston public school students who make it to college but then drop out is showing early signs of success, [...]
News Notes – September 13
Apparent suicide by cyanide prompts safety fears – NU lab tech found dead By Edward Mason/Boston Herald – September 13, 2010 A Northeastern University lab tech’s suspected suicide by cyanide – 30 miles away from campus – is raising public safety fears over easy access to deadly chemicals days after the ninth anniversary of 9/11. [...]
NEC Mourns the Death of Jazz Drummer Sa Davis, A Faculty Member for 30 Years
New England Conservatory is mourning the death Aug. 25 of percussionist Sa Davis, 56, who taught hand drumming to NEC’s College, Preparatory, and Continuing Education students from 1980 until his death. According to his brother Richard Harris, Davis’s death came as a shock because he had not been ill. Davis will be remembered at a wake/funeral [...]
News Notes – September 3
BU goes for the gold – In the post-Silber era, the university pursues its first capital campaign By Alex Beam – Globe Columnist / September 3, 2010 This summer the Boston University trustees quietly green-lit the university’s first-ever, big-time fund-raising campaign. It sounds like a small thing, but it is a big thing. Unlike almost [...]
NEC Mourns the Death of Horn Faculty Jay Wadenpfuhl
Played with Boston Symphony for 29 Years, Taught at NEC for 23 Years New England Conservatory is mourning the death of Jay Wadenpfuhl, who played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s horn section for 29 years and was a member of the NEC faculty for 23 years. Wadenpfuhl died June 19 of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. [...]
News Notes – June 16
1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday,” More anniversaries. William J. Mitchell, Architect and Urban Visionary, Dies at 65 By WILLIAM GRIMES/NYT – June 15, 2010 William J. Mitchell, an [...]
Walter Kouyoumjian Obituary in Globe
[We missed this when it was published last week - ed.] Walter L. Kouyoumjian, mechanical engineer and city activist By Emma Stickgold – Globe Correspondent / February 12, 2010 Sitting at outdoor cafes in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood, Walter Leon Kouyoumjian talked with neighbors about how to improve the lives of area residents, and politicians often [...]
News Notes – January 20
Robert B. Parker, the Prolific Writer Who Created Spenser, Is Dead at 77By BRUCE WEBER/NYT – January 20, 2010 Robert B. Parker, the best-selling mystery writer who created Spenser, a tough, glib Boston private detective who was the hero of nearly 40 novels, died Monday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 77. The [...]
Walter Leon Kouyoumjian – Memorial Tomorrow
Walter Kouyoumjian shares cake withHelen Cox at her birthday party last December. Photo by Tracy Cusick KOUYOUMJIAN, Walter Leon Born 03/24/1928 in New York to Rose and Leon Kouyoumjian Sr. , and died at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston of heart related illness on 12/21/2009 at approximately 11:30 am. Walter served in the United [...]