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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, […]

Arte Institute: Celebrating the life and work of Fernando Pessoa – New York, NY

05 April 2013

The Arte Institute, in partnership with Teatro do Bairro, is launching the Pessoa in New York Program, scheduled for April 13 through April 17, to take place in New York City and New Jersey. The program is comprised of series of cultural events celebrating the life and work of Portuguese modernist poet Fernando Pessoa. It […]

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Appointed: António Gomes de Menezes elected ERA board member – Azores

03 April 2013

The President of Azores based SATA Group, António Gomes de Menezes, was elected board member of the European Regions Airline Association (ERA). Founded in 1980, ERA is a non-profit trade association representing some 200 companies involved in European air transport, carrying 70.6m passengers on 1.6m flights to 426 destinations in 61 European countries. SATA Group […]

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Travel: SATA offering new flight connections from Chicago and New York – Azores

03 April 2013

Beginning April, SATA International has doubled its weekly service from the U.S. to the Azores and mainland Portugal, including a new non-stop direct flight to Lisbon. All flights connect through Boston’s Logan Airport,where SATA International has non-stop three times a week service to the Azores with continuing service to Lisbon. A recent agreement between SATA International and […]

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Presentation: Azorean ecologists to address environmental preservation – New Bedford, MA

01 April 2013

A team of ecologists from the Furnas Monitoring and Research Centre (CMIF), based on São Miguel island, Azores, will speak Tuesday, April 2, at 6:00, Buzzards Bay Center, 114 Front St., downtown New Bedford, about the challenges of protecting and restoring Lagoa das Furnas [Furnas Lake]. The event, hosted by the Buzzards Bay Coalition, is free […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, People, São Miguel

Book: Anthony Barcellos’ A Land of Milk and Money – Review

28 March 2013

By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Anthony Barcellos is bilingual in Portuguese and English, and he grew up on his grandparents’ dairy farm in Porterville, California.  Currently, he lives in Davis, California and is a math professor at American River College in Sacramento.  I feel much kinship with him.  He was a first generation college student […]

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Finance: Minister Vitor Gaspar goes to Washington – Portugal

26 March 2013

Portugal’s Finance Minister, Vitor Gaspar, visited Washington Monday for meetings with the new US Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York President, William C. Dudley, and Terrance Checki vice president. On Tuesday, after addressing the Brooking Institution, Gaspar held a meeting with Christine Lagarde, the head of the  of […]

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