May 08, 2008Volume 29, No. 30
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Campus Hosts Chili Cookoff
Brad Kaminsky ’00 stirs a pot of chili for the Alumni Association team at the seventh-annual Great New York State Chili Championship. Second-place winner Bob Griffin, marketing director with Sodexho Campus Services, was the top local finisher in the contest, which was held May 3 near the East Gym. Showmanship winners were all campus groups: Team Sodexo, first; BU Athletics, second; and student group TasteBuds, third.
BU News & Notes
>>ISCL spring conference set for May 19-20

>>Tyson, former dean, dies at age 87

>>Scholl to coach women's basketball

>>Doctoral student receives national recognition

>>Graduate student wins award for best paper

>>SIFE team takes first place in regional competition

>>BU Pep Band is tops in Binghamton's Got Talent

>>IN THE NEWS

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Five Binghamton students named Fulbright scholars
Five students have been named Fulbright scholars for 2008-09, with destinations ranging from Finland to Paraguay.

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Dickinson gets new faculty master
Jeffrey S. Barker, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies, has been named faculty master in Dickinson Community.

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Volleyball star's drive leads to reporting job
When senior Jacqueline Kane decides to pursue a goal, she doesn’t rest until she has reached it.

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Faculty Senate approves law school, new department
The Faculty Senate approved two proposals — one to establish the Asian and Asian American Studies Department and another to establish a law school.

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Students to speak at Commencement
Graduates will hear from their peers during Commencement ceremonies on May 17 and 18. Jeremy Schraffenberger, Alexis Stecker, David Belsky and Kamron Pourmand have been selected to serve as student speakers.

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Historian celebrates NYC
Urban historian Kenneth Jackson delivered a lecture titled “Empire City: Why New York is Different from the Rest of the United States.”

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