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SUN
The Suffolk University News
September 2010 Vol. 36, No. 5
New Ram Logo Continues Tradition of Athletic Spirit
The new Suffolk University Ram
is an imposing, yet majestic,
beast, born of a trans-Atlantic
collaboration between a University
art director and a top British
illustrator.
The University unveiled the sleek new athletics logo this month.
“It’s a wonderful modern version of what’s been a great tradition
for the University,” said Nancy Stoll, vice president for Student
Affairs. “It will give a real boost to the athletics program in terms
of visibility.”
The old Ram logo has served the University well since it was
created after the student body decided in 1950 that athletes would
compete as Rams rather than Royals.
The Ram image hasn’t had a major makeover in decades, and
the old icon’s level of detail makes for difficult reproduction on
clothing and in other materials. Stoll and others felt it was time to
consider a cleaner, more contemporary look.
Student Affairs turned to the Office of University
Communications, and Art Director Donald Suthard began the
process of creating an updated spirit logo.
Suthard had a sense of what a new icon should convey.
“First, I knew I wanted something that respected the animal,”
Suthard said. “Something that was
majestic, that was not cartoony.”
He also wanted a modern image
with simple lines, making for easier
and higher-quality reproduction.
After trolling through online portfolios Suthard came across the
work of Chris Mitchell, an internationally known illustrator based
in England.
“He had exactly what I was looking for,’” said Suthard.
“He was very experienced doing animals, and his animals
were beautiful.”
Mitchell has designed logos and other artwork for familiar
global brands, including Schweppes tonic water; and sports teams
such as England’s Tottenham Hotspur soccer club.
His drawings have an imaginative, identifiable and expressive
style, and the artist has a way of taking the essence of what he’s
representing and whittling it down to simple, striking shapes.
Collaborating through e-mail, Suthard sent the illustrator a
video of rams butting heads to emphasize that the new logo should
be aggressive and show action.
Continued on page 4
A Milestone for the Residential Campus
The University’s fourth residence hall opened as
students returned to campus, providing 200 beds in a
LEED Silver building that combines cutting edge construction and historic reconstruction in one facility.
The residence hall is the fourth to come online since
the University began the transition from a commuter to
a residential campus when it opened the 150 Tremont
St. residence hall to students in 1996. The Modern
Theatre residence hall also houses a theater and gallery.
“We have realized an important goal, as the
University is now housing 25 percent of its full-time
undergraduate students,” said John Nucci, vice
president for External Affairs. “This is good for the
city, which wants to preserve neighborhood housing
for city residents and revitalize the downtown area, and
it’s good for the students, because they have a safe and
convenient place to live, study and congregate.”
The residence hall is built on the site of the historic
Modern Theatre, Boston’s first movie house, and
the theater’s historic facade has been restored and
rebuilt. A celebratory opening will take place in early
November.
Rod Waters, director of Residence Life & Summer Programs, checks out a student
room in the new Modern Theatre residence hall as move-in day approaches. (Photo
by John Gillooly)
Potpourri
John Berg, Government, was awarded the
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement
Award from the American Political Science
Association in July. He presented “The
Left and Obama in American Politics” to
the Capitalist Crisis and Socialist Revival
panel at the Vienna conference of the
International Political Science Association
in June.
Simone Chun, Government. In June,
she delivered “Northeast Asia: Legacies of
Force and Prospects for Reconciliation”
at the Conference on Regional Peace
Building: The Korean Peninsula and
Northeast Asia at Lingnan University in
Hong Kong and “Capitalist Crisis, Organic
Intellectuals and Socialist Revival in the
21st Century” at the International Political
Science Association Conference in Vienna.
Richard DeCapua, Student Affairs, was
quoted in the June 13 issue of The Chronicle
of Higher Education in an article “Student
Services, in Outside Hands.”
Roberto Domínguez, Government,
has published two book chapters:
“Contributions of NATO and the EU to
European and Global Governance” in The
United States and Europe in a Changing
World; and “Las Relaciones Exteriores de
Massachusetts e Illinois” (The External
Relations of Massachusetts and Illinois)
in Regionalización y Paradiplomacia: La
Política Internacional de las Regiones.
He presented, “After Lima 2008: How
Effective Are the EU-Latin America
Summits” at the XXVIII International
Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association in Rio de Janeiro in June.
Weddings: Julia Collins, Archives, married Tim Howington on May 30.
Karen Corey, External Affairs, married Kevin Kelley on June 17. Brian Gowdy,
Vice President-Treasurer’s Office, married Kate Fillo on May 29. Liz Orlando
of Disability Services served as maid of honor.
C. Gopinath, Strategy & International
Business. At the Knowledge Globalization
Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh in
May, he presented a paper “Perceptions
of Globalization: Exploratory Evidence”
with co-authors Christin Murphy, Antonin
Ricard and Jayshree Suresh; and conducted
a faculty development workshop on Exper
i
ential Learning. He also presented “Decision
Making in the Context of Globalization”
to the Madras Management Association in
Chennai, India in June.
Peniey McClary, Law School, was
named co-chair of the Law Schools Special
Interest Group (SIG) for The Association
for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA).
This organization is devoted to the performance of CLE professionals.
Samantha Moppett, Law School, presented “Teaching the Third Sovereign: How
and Why to Include Tribal Nations and
Courts in Legal Writing Courses” with
Tonya Kowalski of
Washburn University,
at the 14th Biennial
Conference of the
Legal Writing Institute
in Marco Island, Fla.
in June.
Bob Rosenthal,
Communication and
Journalism, appeared
on the Fox25
Sebastian Royo with students from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Boston Morning
News on June 30
speaking about the
The SUN i s publish ed by:
Russian spy case.
Sebastián Royo,
Office of Public Affairs Executive Editor
Staff Writers
associate dean of the
73 Tremont Street
Greg Gatlin
Karen DeCilio
Boston, MA 02108
Tony Ferullo
college and director of
Managing Editor
617-573-8447
the Madrid campus,
Nancy Kelleher
Design
sun@suffolk.edu
taught “The global
Heather Clark
2
SUN
crises and the future of capitalism,” an
intense PhD course at the Universidad
Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, as part
of his Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
grant. He also gave a series of lectures at the
university and in the city of Rosario.
Kristin Sarkisian,
President’s Office,
met Mario Lopez at
the 7News Health
care Health & Fitness
Expo and received
Kristin Sarkisian and
a copy of his latest
Mario Lopez
book, Extra Lean.
Ron Suleski, Rosenberg Institute for
East Asian Studies, was featured in China
in the Eyes of Harvard: Interviews with
the Experts on China Issues in Harvard
University in the volume “Culture and
Academics,” pp. 49–66. The editors clearly
noted his move from the Fairbank Center
to the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian
Studies. “Chinese scholars all know the
name of the Fairbank Center,” he said, “and
they need to be aware that serious academic
study of China is also ongoing at Suffolk.”
David Yamada, Law School, was elected
National Executive Committee Chair of
Americans for Democratic Action. He
presented the keynote address “Workplace
Bullying and the Law, 2000-2010: A
Global Assessment” at the 7th International
Conference on Workplace Bullying and
Harassment, hosted by University of
Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales in June; and
presented “The Adult Educator as Public
Intellectual” at Adult Education as Social
Education Revisited: Perspectives on the
Work of John Ohliger, a symposium in
conjunction with the 2010 annual meeting
of the Canadian Society for the Study of
Adult Education in Montreal.
Faculty Publications
Darlene Chisholm, Economics. Her
paper “Product Differentiation and FilmProgramming Choice: Do First-Run Movie
Theatres Show the Same Films?” with
Margaret McMillan and George Norman
of Tufts University, was published in the
May 2010 issue of The Journal of Cultural
Economics.
Jerry Gianakis, Public Management, has
published “What Hath the GASB Wrought?
The Utility of the New Reporting Model:
A National Survey of Local Govern ent
m
Finance Officers” in Volume 22, Issue 2 of
the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting
and Financial Management. The research was
co-authored by Professor Howard Frank of
the Florida International University.
Micky Lee, Communication and
Journalism. Her article “Localizing a global
amusement park: Hong Kong Disneyland,”
co-authored with Anthony Fung, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, has been reprinted
in the book Cultural Adaptation (Routledge).
Her book Free information? The case against
Google will be published by the Common
Ground in the fall of 2010. Lee was invited
by the editors of Feminist Media Studies to
contribute an essay on feminist political
economy of communication to the tenth
anniversary of the journal.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and
Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Physics,
Madrid Campus, published an article “The
New Faces
Evolution of Primordial Binary Open Star
Clusters: Mergers, Shredded Secondaries,
and Separated Twins” in The Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 719, No. 1, 10 August 2010, pp.
104–118.
Ariel Markelevich and Lewis Shaw of
Accounting. Their article “An Analysis of
the Israeli XBRL-Adoption Experience,”coauthored with Hagit Weihs of Brandeis
University, appeared in the July 15 issue of
Haaretz, one of Israel’s largest newspapers.
The Hebrew version of the story was published in The Marker, the major financial
newspaper in Israel.
Quentin Miller, English, published
an essay “On the Road with the Final
Four…Writers” in The Chronicle of Higher
Education in July. His reference volume
essay on T.C. Boyle was published in
American Writers (Gale/Scribner’s reference,
2010, 17–32); his review of Peter Caster’s
book Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and
Film appeared in Callaloo (Summer, 2010:
564–566); and his guest-edited special
issue of Obsidian on James Baldwin was
published in summer 2010.
Sebastián Royo, associate dean of the
college and director of the Madrid campus,
published “Portugal and Spain in the EU:
Paths of economic divergence (2000–07)”
in the Portuguese journal Análise Social,
Vol. XLV (195).
Please welcome our newest employees!
Michelle Auerbach, Provost’s Office
Elizabeth Basset, Student Financial
Services—Colleges
Dominique Cadet, Dean’s Office—
Law School
Robert DeStefano, Budget Office
Melanie Funken, Center for International
Education
Brittany Garner, Residence Life—
Somerset
Suzanna Haggstrom, Facilities
Management
Jason Harris, Academic Computing—
Law School
Robert Hodge, Law Library
Kayley Kravitz, English
Jesse Martin, Law Library
Alvin Nguyen, Residence Life—
150 Tremont St
Edward Smith, Student Financial
Services—Colleges
Justin Sultzbach, Mail Services
Dmitry Zinoviev, Mathematics and
Computer Science. He published a paper “A
Game Theoretical Approach to Modeling
Full-Duplex Information Dissemination”
with Vy Duong in the Proceedings of
the Summer Computer Simulation
Conference-2010. Zinoviev presented the
paper at the conference.
Stefanescu Receives NSF Grant
From Hong Kong to Boston
Twenty-three students from the City University of Hong Kong spent
this summer improving their English skills and learning about the
historic city of Boston as part of a new, six-week program sponsored
by the University’s Center for International Education. Students
Theresa Tsui and Henry Lo attended English classes, led by Elaine
Pascale and Ruth Collins of Second Language Services.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Math & Computer
Science Professor Dan Stefanescu a three-year Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) grant.
The $320,000 grant establishes the University as a national REU
site for undergraduate students from across the country to study
advanced topics and conduct high-quality research in computer
science.
“This is quite a prestigious grant, and I’m very excited to receive it,”
said Stefanescu. “It shows all the good work we perform here in our
department, in addition to enhancing Suffolk’s national reputation.”
Stefanescu and Math & Computer Science Department colleagues Dmitry Zinoviev and Honggang Zhang and Sukanya Ray
of the Psychology Department will lead students in conducting
research projects that investigate various aspects of massive online
social networks.
This is the second major grant awarded to the Math & Computer
Science Department. Last year, Assistant Professor Honggang Zhang
received a five-year, $400,000 NSF grant, “CAREER: Unstructured
Dynamic Overlay Networks and Strategic Users,” to perform
computer networks-related research.
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Now is a
great time to get
energized and
prepare for the New
England weather
we all know is right
around the corner.
Here are some helpful tips for a safe
and healthy season:
Be careful walking and driving. As
the days get shorter and we get back
into our school and home routines, it’s
important to stay aware of what’s going
on around us.
Have chimneys professionally inspected
and cleaned before use. Imperfections in
the base could lead to carbon monoxide
being released into the home. Soot
buildup or birds’ nests could lead to fires.
Have furnaces cleaned to ensure that
they work efficiently.
Check and replace the batteries in smoke
and carbon monoxide detectors. Replace
smoke detectors that are more than 10
years old. Replace carbon monoxide
detectors that are more than 5 years old.
Check windows for leaks and install any
existing storm windows.
Prune trees now if the branches are too
close to electrical wires or the house.
Winterize cars: Replace wiper blades;
put an ice scraper/brush in the trunk.
Have cars serviced on schedule.
Keep up with or get started on exercise.
Happy Fall!
Strength in Numbers
The University Police Department participated in the 24th annual American Parkinson Disease
Association Walk-A-Thon to support colleague Greg Grande, center, who has Parkinson’s
disease. (Cory Brett Photography)
Community Engagement Celebrated
The Office of External Affairs this fall will publish the first of what will be annual
reports on the University’s community engagement efforts.
Suffolk University Community Engagement 2009-2010: Culture, Citizenship,
Service provides highlights of the University’s service-learning efforts, volunteer
outreach and cultural offerings. It features the good works of faculty, students, administrators and staff in a colorful booklet.
“This publication shows the University’s commitment to being a good neighbor
and putting its expertise to work for the greater good,” said John Nucci, vice president
of External Affairs. “It will be a valuable communications tool as the University works
with the community and city officials on issues of mutual interest.
New SU Ram
Continued from page 1
“Donald Suthard, in briefing me, knew
what he wanted and stuck by his vision,”
Mitchell said. “It was clear that the new
identity, whilst being a flagship for the
Athletics Department, had to be proudly
endorsed by the students and unite them
in their sporting endeavors. A modern,
powerful, dynamic, illustrative ram icon
was required while projecting an air of
style and prestige.”
Mitchell provided rough sketches of a
new ram image, which were shown, along
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with the old icon, to student athletes and
others. The overwhelming consensus was in
favor of the version with the ram in an oval.
Suthard points to the work Mitchell did
with positive and negative space.
“With the hooves and tail, there are
expressive lines, just some beautiful work
he does there,” he said. “It’s bold, dynamic,
clean and immediately recognizable.”
The Suffolk University Bookstore
expects to begin stocking clothing and caps
with the new Ram logo in early October.
Meanwhile, plans are under way to
design a custom-made Ram mascot that
will reflect the Athletic Department’s
updated look.
Suthard stresses that the old Ram logo
will not be put entirely out to pasture.
Many alumni remain attached to it. And
there are precedents for old and new logos
that co-exist: Patriots fans can still buy
merchandise with the classic Pat Patriot
logo in addition to garb with the team’s
current logo.
The Suffolk University News
September 2010 Vol. 36, No. 5
New Ram Logo Continues Tradition of Athletic Spirit
The new Suffolk University Ram
is an imposing, yet majestic,
beast, born of a trans-Atlantic
collaboration between a University
art director and a top British
illustrator.
The University unveiled the sleek new athletics logo this month.
“It’s a wonderful modern version of what’s been a great tradition
for the University,” said Nancy Stoll, vice president for Student
Affairs. “It will give a real boost to the athletics program in terms
of visibility.”
The old Ram logo has served the University well since it was
created after the student body decided in 1950 that athletes would
compete as Rams rather than Royals.
The Ram image hasn’t had a major makeover in decades, and
the old icon’s level of detail makes for difficult reproduction on
clothing and in other materials. Stoll and others felt it was time to
consider a cleaner, more contemporary look.
Student Affairs turned to the Office of University
Communications, and Art Director Donald Suthard began the
process of creating an updated spirit logo.
Suthard had a sense of what a new icon should convey.
“First, I knew I wanted something that respected the animal,”
Suthard said. “Something that was
majestic, that was not cartoony.”
He also wanted a modern image
with simple lines, making for easier
and higher-quality reproduction.
After trolling through online portfolios Suthard came across the
work of Chris Mitchell, an internationally known illustrator based
in England.
“He had exactly what I was looking for,’” said Suthard.
“He was very experienced doing animals, and his animals
were beautiful.”
Mitchell has designed logos and other artwork for familiar
global brands, including Schweppes tonic water; and sports teams
such as England’s Tottenham Hotspur soccer club.
His drawings have an imaginative, identifiable and expressive
style, and the artist has a way of taking the essence of what he’s
representing and whittling it down to simple, striking shapes.
Collaborating through e-mail, Suthard sent the illustrator a
video of rams butting heads to emphasize that the new logo should
be aggressive and show action.
Continued on page 4
A Milestone for the Residential Campus
The University’s fourth residence hall opened as
students returned to campus, providing 200 beds in a
LEED Silver building that combines cutting edge construction and historic reconstruction in one facility.
The residence hall is the fourth to come online since
the University began the transition from a commuter to
a residential campus when it opened the 150 Tremont
St. residence hall to students in 1996. The Modern
Theatre residence hall also houses a theater and gallery.
“We have realized an important goal, as the
University is now housing 25 percent of its full-time
undergraduate students,” said John Nucci, vice
president for External Affairs. “This is good for the
city, which wants to preserve neighborhood housing
for city residents and revitalize the downtown area, and
it’s good for the students, because they have a safe and
convenient place to live, study and congregate.”
The residence hall is built on the site of the historic
Modern Theatre, Boston’s first movie house, and
the theater’s historic facade has been restored and
rebuilt. A celebratory opening will take place in early
November.
Rod Waters, director of Residence Life & Summer Programs, checks out a student
room in the new Modern Theatre residence hall as move-in day approaches. (Photo
by John Gillooly)
Potpourri
John Berg, Government, was awarded the
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement
Award from the American Political Science
Association in July. He presented “The
Left and Obama in American Politics” to
the Capitalist Crisis and Socialist Revival
panel at the Vienna conference of the
International Political Science Association
in June.
Simone Chun, Government. In June,
she delivered “Northeast Asia: Legacies of
Force and Prospects for Reconciliation”
at the Conference on Regional Peace
Building: The Korean Peninsula and
Northeast Asia at Lingnan University in
Hong Kong and “Capitalist Crisis, Organic
Intellectuals and Socialist Revival in the
21st Century” at the International Political
Science Association Conference in Vienna.
Richard DeCapua, Student Affairs, was
quoted in the June 13 issue of The Chronicle
of Higher Education in an article “Student
Services, in Outside Hands.”
Roberto Domínguez, Government,
has published two book chapters:
“Contributions of NATO and the EU to
European and Global Governance” in The
United States and Europe in a Changing
World; and “Las Relaciones Exteriores de
Massachusetts e Illinois” (The External
Relations of Massachusetts and Illinois)
in Regionalización y Paradiplomacia: La
Política Internacional de las Regiones.
He presented, “After Lima 2008: How
Effective Are the EU-Latin America
Summits” at the XXVIII International
Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association in Rio de Janeiro in June.
Weddings: Julia Collins, Archives, married Tim Howington on May 30.
Karen Corey, External Affairs, married Kevin Kelley on June 17. Brian Gowdy,
Vice President-Treasurer’s Office, married Kate Fillo on May 29. Liz Orlando
of Disability Services served as maid of honor.
C. Gopinath, Strategy & International
Business. At the Knowledge Globalization
Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh in
May, he presented a paper “Perceptions
of Globalization: Exploratory Evidence”
with co-authors Christin Murphy, Antonin
Ricard and Jayshree Suresh; and conducted
a faculty development workshop on Exper
i
ential Learning. He also presented “Decision
Making in the Context of Globalization”
to the Madras Management Association in
Chennai, India in June.
Peniey McClary, Law School, was
named co-chair of the Law Schools Special
Interest Group (SIG) for The Association
for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA).
This organization is devoted to the performance of CLE professionals.
Samantha Moppett, Law School, presented “Teaching the Third Sovereign: How
and Why to Include Tribal Nations and
Courts in Legal Writing Courses” with
Tonya Kowalski of
Washburn University,
at the 14th Biennial
Conference of the
Legal Writing Institute
in Marco Island, Fla.
in June.
Bob Rosenthal,
Communication and
Journalism, appeared
on the Fox25
Sebastian Royo with students from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Boston Morning
News on June 30
speaking about the
The SUN i s publish ed by:
Russian spy case.
Sebastián Royo,
Office of Public Affairs Executive Editor
Staff Writers
associate dean of the
73 Tremont Street
Greg Gatlin
Karen DeCilio
Boston, MA 02108
Tony Ferullo
college and director of
Managing Editor
617-573-8447
the Madrid campus,
Nancy Kelleher
Design
sun@suffolk.edu
taught “The global
Heather Clark
2
SUN
crises and the future of capitalism,” an
intense PhD course at the Universidad
Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, as part
of his Fulbright Senior Specialist Program
grant. He also gave a series of lectures at the
university and in the city of Rosario.
Kristin Sarkisian,
President’s Office,
met Mario Lopez at
the 7News Health
care Health & Fitness
Expo and received
Kristin Sarkisian and
a copy of his latest
Mario Lopez
book, Extra Lean.
Ron Suleski, Rosenberg Institute for
East Asian Studies, was featured in China
in the Eyes of Harvard: Interviews with
the Experts on China Issues in Harvard
University in the volume “Culture and
Academics,” pp. 49–66. The editors clearly
noted his move from the Fairbank Center
to the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian
Studies. “Chinese scholars all know the
name of the Fairbank Center,” he said, “and
they need to be aware that serious academic
study of China is also ongoing at Suffolk.”
David Yamada, Law School, was elected
National Executive Committee Chair of
Americans for Democratic Action. He
presented the keynote address “Workplace
Bullying and the Law, 2000-2010: A
Global Assessment” at the 7th International
Conference on Workplace Bullying and
Harassment, hosted by University of
Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales in June; and
presented “The Adult Educator as Public
Intellectual” at Adult Education as Social
Education Revisited: Perspectives on the
Work of John Ohliger, a symposium in
conjunction with the 2010 annual meeting
of the Canadian Society for the Study of
Adult Education in Montreal.
Faculty Publications
Darlene Chisholm, Economics. Her
paper “Product Differentiation and FilmProgramming Choice: Do First-Run Movie
Theatres Show the Same Films?” with
Margaret McMillan and George Norman
of Tufts University, was published in the
May 2010 issue of The Journal of Cultural
Economics.
Jerry Gianakis, Public Management, has
published “What Hath the GASB Wrought?
The Utility of the New Reporting Model:
A National Survey of Local Govern ent
m
Finance Officers” in Volume 22, Issue 2 of
the Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting
and Financial Management. The research was
co-authored by Professor Howard Frank of
the Florida International University.
Micky Lee, Communication and
Journalism. Her article “Localizing a global
amusement park: Hong Kong Disneyland,”
co-authored with Anthony Fung, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, has been reprinted
in the book Cultural Adaptation (Routledge).
Her book Free information? The case against
Google will be published by the Common
Ground in the fall of 2010. Lee was invited
by the editors of Feminist Media Studies to
contribute an essay on feminist political
economy of communication to the tenth
anniversary of the journal.
Raul de la Fuente Marcos and
Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Physics,
Madrid Campus, published an article “The
New Faces
Evolution of Primordial Binary Open Star
Clusters: Mergers, Shredded Secondaries,
and Separated Twins” in The Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 719, No. 1, 10 August 2010, pp.
104–118.
Ariel Markelevich and Lewis Shaw of
Accounting. Their article “An Analysis of
the Israeli XBRL-Adoption Experience,”coauthored with Hagit Weihs of Brandeis
University, appeared in the July 15 issue of
Haaretz, one of Israel’s largest newspapers.
The Hebrew version of the story was published in The Marker, the major financial
newspaper in Israel.
Quentin Miller, English, published
an essay “On the Road with the Final
Four…Writers” in The Chronicle of Higher
Education in July. His reference volume
essay on T.C. Boyle was published in
American Writers (Gale/Scribner’s reference,
2010, 17–32); his review of Peter Caster’s
book Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and
Film appeared in Callaloo (Summer, 2010:
564–566); and his guest-edited special
issue of Obsidian on James Baldwin was
published in summer 2010.
Sebastián Royo, associate dean of the
college and director of the Madrid campus,
published “Portugal and Spain in the EU:
Paths of economic divergence (2000–07)”
in the Portuguese journal Análise Social,
Vol. XLV (195).
Please welcome our newest employees!
Michelle Auerbach, Provost’s Office
Elizabeth Basset, Student Financial
Services—Colleges
Dominique Cadet, Dean’s Office—
Law School
Robert DeStefano, Budget Office
Melanie Funken, Center for International
Education
Brittany Garner, Residence Life—
Somerset
Suzanna Haggstrom, Facilities
Management
Jason Harris, Academic Computing—
Law School
Robert Hodge, Law Library
Kayley Kravitz, English
Jesse Martin, Law Library
Alvin Nguyen, Residence Life—
150 Tremont St
Edward Smith, Student Financial
Services—Colleges
Justin Sultzbach, Mail Services
Dmitry Zinoviev, Mathematics and
Computer Science. He published a paper “A
Game Theoretical Approach to Modeling
Full-Duplex Information Dissemination”
with Vy Duong in the Proceedings of
the Summer Computer Simulation
Conference-2010. Zinoviev presented the
paper at the conference.
Stefanescu Receives NSF Grant
From Hong Kong to Boston
Twenty-three students from the City University of Hong Kong spent
this summer improving their English skills and learning about the
historic city of Boston as part of a new, six-week program sponsored
by the University’s Center for International Education. Students
Theresa Tsui and Henry Lo attended English classes, led by Elaine
Pascale and Ruth Collins of Second Language Services.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Math & Computer
Science Professor Dan Stefanescu a three-year Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) grant.
The $320,000 grant establishes the University as a national REU
site for undergraduate students from across the country to study
advanced topics and conduct high-quality research in computer
science.
“This is quite a prestigious grant, and I’m very excited to receive it,”
said Stefanescu. “It shows all the good work we perform here in our
department, in addition to enhancing Suffolk’s national reputation.”
Stefanescu and Math & Computer Science Department colleagues Dmitry Zinoviev and Honggang Zhang and Sukanya Ray
of the Psychology Department will lead students in conducting
research projects that investigate various aspects of massive online
social networks.
This is the second major grant awarded to the Math & Computer
Science Department. Last year, Assistant Professor Honggang Zhang
received a five-year, $400,000 NSF grant, “CAREER: Unstructured
Dynamic Overlay Networks and Strategic Users,” to perform
computer networks-related research.
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Now is a
great time to get
energized and
prepare for the New
England weather
we all know is right
around the corner.
Here are some helpful tips for a safe
and healthy season:
Be careful walking and driving. As
the days get shorter and we get back
into our school and home routines, it’s
important to stay aware of what’s going
on around us.
Have chimneys professionally inspected
and cleaned before use. Imperfections in
the base could lead to carbon monoxide
being released into the home. Soot
buildup or birds’ nests could lead to fires.
Have furnaces cleaned to ensure that
they work efficiently.
Check and replace the batteries in smoke
and carbon monoxide detectors. Replace
smoke detectors that are more than 10
years old. Replace carbon monoxide
detectors that are more than 5 years old.
Check windows for leaks and install any
existing storm windows.
Prune trees now if the branches are too
close to electrical wires or the house.
Winterize cars: Replace wiper blades;
put an ice scraper/brush in the trunk.
Have cars serviced on schedule.
Keep up with or get started on exercise.
Happy Fall!
Strength in Numbers
The University Police Department participated in the 24th annual American Parkinson Disease
Association Walk-A-Thon to support colleague Greg Grande, center, who has Parkinson’s
disease. (Cory Brett Photography)
Community Engagement Celebrated
The Office of External Affairs this fall will publish the first of what will be annual
reports on the University’s community engagement efforts.
Suffolk University Community Engagement 2009-2010: Culture, Citizenship,
Service provides highlights of the University’s service-learning efforts, volunteer
outreach and cultural offerings. It features the good works of faculty, students, administrators and staff in a colorful booklet.
“This publication shows the University’s commitment to being a good neighbor
and putting its expertise to work for the greater good,” said John Nucci, vice president
of External Affairs. “It will be a valuable communications tool as the University works
with the community and city officials on issues of mutual interest.
New SU Ram
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“Donald Suthard, in briefing me, knew
what he wanted and stuck by his vision,”
Mitchell said. “It was clear that the new
identity, whilst being a flagship for the
Athletics Department, had to be proudly
endorsed by the students and unite them
in their sporting endeavors. A modern,
powerful, dynamic, illustrative ram icon
was required while projecting an air of
style and prestige.”
Mitchell provided rough sketches of a
new ram image, which were shown, along
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with the old icon, to student athletes and
others. The overwhelming consensus was in
favor of the version with the ram in an oval.
Suthard points to the work Mitchell did
with positive and negative space.
“With the hooves and tail, there are
expressive lines, just some beautiful work
he does there,” he said. “It’s bold, dynamic,
clean and immediately recognizable.”
The Suffolk University Bookstore
expects to begin stocking clothing and caps
with the new Ram logo in early October.
Meanwhile, plans are under way to
design a custom-made Ram mascot that
will reflect the Athletic Department’s
updated look.
Suthard stresses that the old Ram logo
will not be put entirely out to pasture.
Many alumni remain attached to it. And
there are precedents for old and new logos
that co-exist: Patriots fans can still buy
merchandise with the classic Pat Patriot
logo in addition to garb with the team’s
current logo.