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Brown promoted at Residential Life

Liz Brown has been promoted from assistant director for finance to director of finance and human resources for Residential Life, according to executive director Eddie Hull.
 
In her new role, Brown will have overall responsibility for Residential Life finances, budget development and all related areas. In addition, she has assumed responsibility for the unit’s human resources functions and related matters.
 

Smith and Stepanov share best paper award

Professor James MacGregor Smith of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and his former Ph.D student, Alexander Stepanov, now a GIS analyst with Campus Planning, won the best paper award in the theory and methodology category at the 25th European Conference on Operational Research, held July 8-11 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
 
EURO presented the first of its annual best paper awards for papers published in the European Journal of Operational Research. Smith and Stepanov’s paper, “Multi-objective evacuation routing in transportation networks,” was published in October 2009. Their award also included

Glennon's book on Tom Brady published by Triumph Books

Tom Brady vs. the NFL: The Case for Football's Greatest Quarterback, by Sean Glennon, associate director of Marketing and New Business Development for University Relations, has been published by Triumph Books and is now available through online retailers and bookstores.
 
Tom Brady vs. the NFL is Glennon’s fourth book, all of which focus on various aspects of the New England Patriots, though he says, “I’m not a Patriots fan, but I am a big football fan.”
 
As a columnist for the Boston Phoenix in 2002, Glennon chronicled the season from the fans’ perspective.

Bunk's article on boxer Harry Wills published in Journal of Sport History

Brian D. Bunk, senior lecturer in History, published an article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Sport History titled "Harry Wills and the Image of the Black Boxer from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis."
 
In the article, Bunk argues that the African-American press created images of Harry Wills that were intended to restore the image of the black boxer after Jack Johnson and to use these positive representations as effective tools in the fight against inequality. Newspapers highlighted Wills’s moral character in contrast to Johnson’s questionable reputation.

Dasgupta gives invited presentation at White House roundtable

Psychology professor Nilanjana Dasgupta gave a research talk at the White House on Aug. 21 as part of a mini-conference on finding effective ways to increase the participation of underrepresented youth in technology and to enhance the numbers of American technology innovators and entrepreneurs.
 
Dasgupta reports that the White House and President Obama's chief technology officer, Todd Park, are urgently searching for strategies to offset the dwindling numbers of domestic students who pursue careers in technology.

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