Goldstein in Jewish Exponent, Freund in Hartford Courant, Giannaros on WFSB-TV, and More

Warren Goldstein, chair of the history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in an article in the Jewish Exponent newspaper on Wednesday, Aug. 3, titled For the Love of Physics, which is written by Walter Levin (a renowned physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and co-authored by Goldstein. Here is the Jewish Exponent article. The book was also reviewed by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, July 3.

Richard Freund, professor and director of the University’s Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, was featured in the “Write Stuff” column in the Thursday, Aug. 4, “Cal” section of the Hartford Courant. The write-up highlighted the donation of 100 copies of the Arabic-language book Ottoman Nazareth in Western Eyes to the town of Nazareth. The book, which features accounts of Western pilgrims to Nazareth in the 19th century, was translated in Arabic and edited by Hazza Abu Rabia, who is a faculty member at the Greenberg Center. Check out the Write Stuff column.

Demetrios Giannaros, professor of economics in the Barney School of Business, did a live, in-studio interview on WFSB-TV Channel 3 Eyewitness News on Friday evening, Aug. 5, about the turmoil in the U.S. stock markets and the debt ceiling debate in Washington. Click here to watch the interview.

Tara Reuter, an acting major at The Hartt School, will be performing the role of Juliet in the Fairfield Youth Shakespeare Theater Company’s staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, according to an article in Fairfield Patch.com that was posted on Thursday, Aug. 4. Click here to read the story.

Erik Wexler, who earned his MBA degree at the University and worked in the Office of Institutional Advancement at the University, was recently named the new president and CEO of Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester. He talks about his background in this question-and-answer interview in the Worcester Business Journal that was published on Monday, Aug. 1

University graduate Seth Krentcil, who traveled to Germany to become a Buddhist monk, returned to his hometown of Andover, Mass., to visit and led a meditation session for area residents. After the session, he did an interview about his journey with the Andover Townsman newspaper that was published on Thursday, Aug. 4. Click here to read the story.

The Meriden Record-Journal newspaper featured a story on Friday, July 29, about the 360 cadets from police explorer programs throughout New England who were getting ready for graduation from a weeklong intensive training program at the University of Hartford. Click here to see the story.