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early Notice: Physics professor Willie J. Padilla (center, in his Higgins Hall laboratory) was recently named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. More

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Urban legend

Article from Boston College Magazine

Jane Jacobs distrusted academics about as much as city planners, but she chose to leave her papers to Boston College.

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Anticipation

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The hockey and basketball teams showed their moves at Ice Jam, a preseason pep rally in Conte Forum, emceed by sportscaster Bob Costas.

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Real-time video streams from webcams in five campus locations.

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A panel of political scientists and legal scholars discusses the origins of American federalism.

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Essay prize

English Associate Professor Andrew Sofer has received the inaugural ASTR Essay Prize of the American Society for Theatre Research for his Theatre Journal article on 'Doctor Faustus.' According to the award citation, the essay's 'rigorous and insightful interweaving of theatre and literary history, performance and critical theory, and cultural and textual analysis' renders it 'a model of elegant scholarly inquiry.'

'Scientific Revolutions'

Scientific Revolutions: An Exhibition of Early Scientific Works at Burns Library features the University's recently acquired first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia (1687), as well as works by Kircher, Schott, Copernicus and Galileo, among others. More

The graying work force

A Sloan Center on Aging and Work report that found a growing number of people continue to work for pay following official retirement' is highlighted by the 'New Old Age' blog of the New York Times, with comments by center director Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes. She also discussed the negative perceptions employers often have about older workers with Over 50 and Out of Work

Friday, December 3, 2010 | 4:00 p.m. | Devlin 101

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MassHumanities Fall Symposium: Is America in Decline?

Saturday, December 4, 2010 | 12:30 p.m. | The Heights Room, Corcoran Commons

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