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Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline Portugal Named “Economy of the Year 2025” by The Economist
 

Community | Fundraiser for slain MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro surpasses $350,000 –  Boston, MA

The family of Nuno Loureiro, a respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, who was tragically killed earlier this month, continues to receive an extraordinary outpouring of support from the community and friends.  Professor Loureiro was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025, and died the following day at a […]

Book | Three Stories of Forgetting | By Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida – Editor’s  Note

Three men haunt these pages. Perhaps they are tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. All three have been expelled in some way, sent on solitary journeys into the night. Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who […]

Update | Portuguese national identified as suspect in the killings at Brown and MIT – Boston, MA

In a major development, law-enforcement officials have publicly identified the suspect in the killings at Brown University and MIT’s Professor Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, as Cláudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national from Torres Novas, Portugal. Authorities said Valente was later found dead in Salem, New Hampshire, on Thursday, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Professor […]

Community | Portuguese physicist Nuno Loureiro fatally shot in Brookline – Massachusetts

Portuguese physicist Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, 47, a distinguished professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, late on the evening of Monday, December 15. Authorities confirmed that Loureiro, originally from Viseu, Portugal, was found with multiple […]

Portugal Named “Economy of the Year 2025” by The Economist – London, UK

Portugal has been selected by the British magazine The Economist as the “Economy of the Year” for 2025, placing the country at the top of a ranking of the world’s 36 richest economies   Titled “Which economy did best in 2025?”,  the magazine highlighted Portugal’s strong blend of macroeconomic indicators, including solid GDP growth, low inflation, […]

Photography: Fusing Place and Perception – An Interview with Gus Petro

16 June 2014

By Patricia Silva, Contributor (*)  Gus Petro is a Zurich-based artist who grew up in the Lithuanian capital, “the old town of Vilnius.”  Proximity to water is what brought Gus Petro to southern Portugal to photograph what was once considered the edge of the world. Petro’s latest photography based series, titled Weld, fuses iconic London […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, People, Photography, Portugal, Travel, World

Community: NOPA launches the Portuguese-American Fellowship Program – Washington, DC

16 June 2014

The National Organization of Portuguese-Americans (NOPA) has launched the first ever Portuguese American Fellowship program available to “highly motivated individuals who have completed a bachelor’s degree or are graduate students in a relevant field with one to two years of experience,” the announced said. For Dr. George Perry, NOPA’s President of the Board, “The fellowship […]

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Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, Scholarships, World

Community: 1st Long Island Portugal Day Parade one for the century – Mineola, NY

13 June 2014

Thousands turned out on Sunday June 8th in green and red in Mineola not only to help commemorate the first ever Portugal Day Parade on Long Island in over 100 years that the community settled on the Island, but made it the largest parade in the Village’s 100 year history. Over 2,000 marchers representing 50 […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Ponte da Barca: Land of Magellan, monasteries, mountains and more – Portugal

13 June 2014

By Julie Dawn Fox(*), Contributor You might have heard of Ferdinand Magellan , the Portuguese navigator who proved once and for all that the Earth is round. In Portugal, he’s known by his real name, Fernão Magalhães, and although no one can say with absolute certainty, it’s more than likely that he’s from the quaint […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, Religion, Travel

Community: 9th Annual Azorean Whaleboat Regatta – Cambridge, MA

12 June 2014

The Boston Portuguese Festival and the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society are hosting its 9th Annual Azorean Whale Boat Regatta taking place at the MIT Pierce Boathouse, Cambridge, MA, on Sunday, June 15, starting at 12:00pm. One of the most celebrated events of the Boston Portuguese Festival, the annual regatta takes place in the Charles River […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Sports, World

Heritage: 6th International Congress on the Feast of the Holy Ghost – Winnipeg, Canada

10 June 2014

The Government of the Azores, in partnership with the Casa dos Açores of Winnipeg, Canada, promotes the 6th International Congress on the Feast of the Holy Ghost to be held June 11-15. The Feast of the Holy Ghost is one of the most relevant religious and cultural traditions of the Azores which has contributed to […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Heritage, Organizations, People, Religion, Terceira, World

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