Becky Lockwood, associate director of the Center for Women & Community, is one of 23 people in the country being recognized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) for their outstanding work to end sexual violence.
Each April as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the NSVRC gives its Visionary Voice Awards to outstanding individuals nominated by state, territorial and tribal coalitions. Lockwood was nominated by Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.
The Center for Women & Community houses the rape crisis center for survivors of
Jim Kurose, Distinguished Professor in the School of Computer Science, on April 16 received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) INFOCOM 2013 Achievement Award “for seminal contributions in the design, analysis, modeling and measurement of computer networks and their protocols, and for impactful service and educational contributions.”
English professor Dara Wier read her poem “Not a Verbal Equivalent” on the “Weekly Poem” feature of the “PBS NewsHour.”
Sally Campbell Galman, associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, presented a lecture April 24 with the Gender and Education Association at London South Bank University’s Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research.