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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, […]

Remittances from Portuguese living abroad increased 9.12% – Portugal

20 July 2013

Remittances from Portuguese living abroad went up 9.12% in the first five months of the current year to €1.14 billion, according to figures released by the Band of Portugal (BP). France and Switzerland were the countries where Portuguese emigrants sent most money back between January and May, €76.8 million and €53 million respectively. Portuguese who […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal

Book: ‘Fernando Pessoa’s Modernity without Frontiers’ – Editor’s Note

18 July 2013

Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa’s literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa’s thinking of […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, South Africa, World

Anthony Barcellos: The author of “Land of Milk and Money” – Interview

16 July 2013

By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Anthony Barcellos is probably best known for his calculus blog and the papers he assigns in his math classes at American River College in Sacramento, CA.  Reared on his grandfather’s dairy farm in Porterville, a small town in California’s Tulare County, he grew up speaking Portuguese.  His new novel, Land […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, World

Coimbra: Portuguese researchers receive Michael J. Fox Foundation Award – Portugal

15 July 2013

The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), dedicated to founding research for the cure of Parkinson’s disease, has awarded the University of Coimbra, Portugal with a $250 thousand research grant. Pledged last year, the “Rapid Response Innovation Award” will fund the work of Portuguese researchers Carlos Palmeira and Rodrigo Cunha affiliated with the Center for Neurosciences […]

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Posted in Awards, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, Scholarships, World

Portugal: Crisis deepening as voices grow louder – Update

14 July 2013

After addressing the nation on Wednesday, President Aníbal Cavaco Silva held separate meetings with Prime Minister Passos  Coelho and  the leaders of  the three main parties – the Social Democratic Party (PSD)  opposition Socialist Party (PS) and of the Christian Democrats (CDS-PP) – to seek an accord of “national salvation.” In his address, Portugal’s President had […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Politics, Portugal

Book: The Conjurer & Other Azorean Tales – By Darrell Kastin – Review

12 July 2013

By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Darrell Kastin is a Portuguese-American writer who is making quite a name for himself.  Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1957, much of his writing focuses on his family’s roots in the Azores. He is a novelist, short story writer, poet, and musician, and his work is much influenced by […]

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Posted in Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World