The Latino Center of Iowa, in partnership with the Chicago Latino Film Festival, will bring to Iowa the first Latino Film Festival connecting Iowans to aspects of LatinX culture and social life not presented in mainstream media. This inaugural event will also be the first festival at the recently re
This coming Saturday, June 5, at noon, a celebration is happening in Brush Park, Downtown Flint, as the Flint Mural Plays kicks off the Flint Rep Summer 2021 season.
Renamed the UC San Francisco Society of Hellman Fellows, the fellowship program will continue providing UCSF assistant professors support for outstanding research at the career juncture when startup funding is often exhausted and first grants may not yet have been obtained.
“My parents, Warren and Chris Hellman, used to say that creating the Hellman Fellows program was one of the best things our family ever did,” said Frances Hellman, the Hellman Fellows Fund’s president. “The discoveries, commitment, and great potential of UCSF faculty continue to inspire us year after year,” she said. “We are thrilled to be carrying on our father’s legacy by ensuring that Hellman Fellowships can exist in perpetuity throughout the University of California system.”
Boston College Commencement 2021: Honorary Degree Recipients
Five distinguished individuals were recognized for their achievements, leadership, and service
L-R standing: BC Board of Trustees chairman John Fish, Leo V. Sullivan, Sean Guthrie, Christine Montenegro McGrath, Boston Archbishop Cardinal Sean O Malley, O.F.M. Cap.; seated: Lyndia Downie, BC President William P. Leahy, S.J., David Brooks (Lee Pellegrini)
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At its 144th Commencement Exercises on May 24, Boston College presented honorary degrees to David Brooks, a journalist, author, and cultural and political commentator who has shared his analysis and opinions as a columnist for
The New York Times and through other national media outlets, and who also addressed the Class of 2021; Lyndia Downie, president and executive director of the Pine Street Inn; former BC football player Sean Guthrie ’01, M.Ed.’14, head of middle school at The Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass.; Christine Montenegro McGrath ’87, vice p
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Last year, in her first year of medical school at Harvard, Pooja Chandrashekar recruited 175 multilingual health profession students from around the U.S. to create simple and accurate fact sheets about COVID-19 in 40 languages. Michele Abercrombie for NPR
When cases of COVID-19 began rising in Boston last spring, Pooja Chandrashekar, then a first year student at Harvard Medical School, worried that easy-to-understand information about the pandemic might not be available in the many languages spoken by clients of the Family Van, the health services and health literacy program where she was working at the time.