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University of Massachusetts Boston ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 1996-2009, University Reporter University Publications and Campus Newsletters 4-1-2007 University Reporter - Volume 11, Number 08 - April 2007 Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_reporter Recommended Citation "University Reporter - Volume 11, Number 08 - April 2007" (2007). 1996-2009, University Reporter. Paper 23. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/university_reporter/23 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications and Campus Newsletters at ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1996-2009, University Reporter by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at UMass Boston. For more information, please contact [email protected]. N E W S A N D I N FORMAT I O N A B O U T T H E U ni VERS I T Y O F M ASSACHUSETTS B OSTO N THE UNIVERSI T Y ReporterVolume 11, Number 8 April 2007 Governor Deval Patrick to Be the Principal Speaker At UMass Boston’s 2007 Commencement By Ed Hayward participation of Tina Chéry, enforcement of fair-lending laws Massachusetts Governor Deval Robert Kraft and Henri Termeer, and the Americans with Disabili- Patrick will deliver the principal all accomplished leaders who ties Act. address at the University of Mas- work daily to improve life in the Clementina (Tina) M. Chéry sachusetts Boston’s 39th com- Commonwealth and around the will receive the Chancellor’s mencement on Friday, June 1, world.” Medal for her work to end gun when nearly 2,800 undergraduate Governor Patrick will be hon- and gang violence in Boston. and graduate students receive ored for his leadership at the top Chéry is president and CEO of the their degrees, Chancellor Michael levels of business, government, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, F. Collins, MD has announced. and the non-profit sector. His founded in memory of her 15- Governor Patrick, who will career began at the NAACP Legal year-old son, who was killed by receive the Chancellor’s Medal, Defense and Education Fund. In an errant gunshot while walking will be joined by fellow honorees 1986, he joined the Boston law near his home in 1993. Clementina (Tina) Chéry, the firm of Hill & Barlow. In 1994, Under Chéry’s direction, the founder and president of the Bos- President Clinton appointed Gov- institute has forged a multi-level Chancellor Collins and Gov. Deval Patrick at a recent executive ton-based Louis D. Brown Peace ernor Patrick Assistant Attorney agenda, operating as a partner training session for senior administrators, which was conducted Institute, Robert Kraft, owner of in the Campus Center by faculty and staff from the McCormack General for Civil Rights, the to the City of Boston, to the the New England Patriots, and Graduate School of Policy Studies, Harvard’s Kennedy School of nation’s top civil rights post. academic community, and to Henri Termeer, president and Government, and Northeastern University. (Photo by Harry Brett) At the Justice Department, grassroots organizations. An- CEO of Cambridge-based Gen- Governor Patrick worked on nually, the institute serves more zyme Corporation. campus for our 39th commence- for our new graduates,” Chancel- a wide range of issues, includ- than 10,000 people with out- “We are pleased to welcome ment ceremonies, where his pres- lor Collins said. “UMass Boston ing prosecution of hate crimes, reach services, school curricula, Governor Patrick back to our ence will serve as a fitting honor is further distinguished by the employment discrimination, and community events and training. (Continued on page 3) Lynch Foundation Award to Endow IN THis Issue Nursing PhD Scholarships at UMass Boston Page 5 By Ed Hayward Collins, MD. “UMass Boston’s Professor Arthur Eisen- The College of Nursing and fast-track PhD in Nursing ad- kraft of the Graduate Health Sciences at the Univer- dresses the critical shortage of College of Education sity of Massachusetts Boston has nursing PhDs, trains the next traveled to Washington, DC, this March to testify received a $500,000 grant from generation of nursing faculty, and creates opportunities for a diverse before Congress. The Lynch Foundation to fund fellowships for students in the group of nursing practitioners to university’s fast-track nursing transform experience into schol- Page 5 PhD program, which is designed arship and research.” This year, celebrate to build a diverse pool of Ph.D.- The fast-track program was Earth Day in a new way prepared nurses focused on cancer developed in collaboration with at the Boston-Area nursing care, health disparities Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Climate Experiment’s Forgers of the fast-track Nursing PhD program: Dean Greer Glazer and health policy research, the Center through a $4.3 million public exhibit in of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences and Pat Reid Ponte, Waltham. university has announced. The National Institutes of Health Dana-Farber Cancer Institute senior vice president for patient grant is one of the largest awarded grant awarded to the two institu- care services and chief of nursing. (Photo by Sam Ogden, DFCI by the 19-year-old charitable tions in 2005. Photographer) foundation started by vice chair- “The Lynch Foundation award man of Fidelity Management & will improve the capacity of the is 8.3 years in nursing, compared The college enrolls more than Research Co. Peter Lynch and his College of Nursing and Health to 6.8 years for all research PhD 960 students in baccalaureate, Spring wife, Carolyn. Sciences to address the national programs. The average time be- master’s and PhD programs. Cur- By establishing The Lynch shortage of PhD-prepared nurs- tween entry into graduate study rently, students of color comprise Enrichment! Foundation Fund for Nursing ing faculty and researchers,” and earning a PhD is 15.9 years nearly 38 percent of the college’s Fellowships, the grant will fund said Dean Greer Glazer. “The in nursing, compared to 8.5 years undergraduate nursing students Spring Enrichment Week, merit-based scholarships for stu- scholarship endowment bolsters in other disciplines. and more than 40 percent of which runs April 23-28, dents in an innovative program the college’s work to attract and By removing financial obstacles UMass Boston’s total student includes interesting and establishing the fast-track body. lectures, entertaining designed to change the way nurses retain first-generation and racially performances, exciting earn doctoral degrees. and ethnically diverse graduate structure, the program plans to The grant to UMass Boston activities, and more! “Peter and Carolyn Lynch set students to our program.” reduce barriers nurses have faced is one of the 12 largest awards See page 3 for more an example for philanthropy in The goal of the fast-track pro- pursuing doctoral studies. made by the Lynch Foundation, details on a week of Massachusetts by making invest- gram is to resolve issues confront- The Lynch Foundation funding which was started in 1988. The events that you won’t ments in projects and programs ing nurses who want to pursue will help provide the proper fi- foundation supports education, want to miss! where the results are expansive doctoral studies. Currently, the nancial support for students who religious organizations, cultural and sustainable,” said UMass average number of years students must give up full-time work to and historic organizations, and Boston Chancellor Michael F. are enrolled in a doctoral program enroll in the doctoral program. hospitals and medical research. Dorchester Community Activist and South Boston CEO Honored at UMass Boston’s 2007 Community Breakfast Top left: (from left to right): Former chair of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees Robert H. Quinn, Mt. Washington Bank CEO Edward J. Merritt, Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Association President Philip Carver, and Chancellor Michael F. Collins. Top right: Attendees enjoy breakfast. Bottom left: Dorchester House CEO Joel Abrams and Dorchester Board of Trade President Mary Truong. Bottom center: Mr. and Mrs. Merritt, Vice Chancellor Darrell Byers, and Sheila Moore, executive director of Bridge over Troubled Waters. Bottom right: Claudina Quinn, Chancellor Collins, and Bob Quinn. (Photos by Harry Brett) By Ed Hayward his work supporting community- H. Quinn, who served as speaker time, the bank has grown into a UMass Boston undergraduate At UMass Boston’s 21st based institutions. of the House of Representatives, full-service financial institution student. In addition, Merritt is annual Community Breakfast, “UMass Boston is proud each attorney general, and chair of the with over $480 million in total a member of the Board of Direc- two local men were honored year to recognize the commitment UMass Board of Trustees. assets, serving the communities of tors of the Caritas Carney Hos- for their work to improve of the residents and business lead- Quinn joined Chancellor Col- South Boston and Dorchester. He pital Foundation, South Boston communities and organiza- ers of Boston to building stronger lins in the presentation of the has overseen the expansion of the Community Health Center, and tions within the city. communities,” Chancellor Collins award to Carver. Thanks to bank’s infrastructure from a two- the Massachusetts Bankers As- Dorchester resident Philip said. “Phil Carver’s dedication to Carver’s initiative, the Pope’s Hill branch operation to four, with a sociation. Carver, president of the Pope’s the Pope’s Hill neighborhood, and neighborhood now enjoys a new fifth branch scheduled to open “Mt. Washington Bank is com- Hill Neighborhood Associa- beyond, as well as Ed Merritt’s campus for the Neighborhood in 2007 in Dorchester’s Codman mitted to being a good corporate tion, received the Robert H. emphasis on exemplary corporate House Charter School, as well as Square neighborhood. citizen and neighbor, so the bank Quinn Award for Community citizenship, are richly deserv- the addition of a new bank and Merritt emphasizes community established the Mt.