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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, […]

Lajes: U.S. business delegation visiting Lisbon and Terceira – Azores

01 February 2013

Starting Saturday, February 2, a U.S. delegation will be visiting Lisbon and Terceira island to look into future business opportunities, following the recent U.S. Air Force decision to downsize its military presence on the island. In a statement to Lusa, the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon said that, a delegation from the group Business Executives for […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira, World

Book: The Dabneys: A Bostonian Family in the Azores – Launching

31 January 2013

The launching of the anthology “The Dabneys: A Bostonian Family in the Azores 1806-1871,” will take place in a series of events to be held, February 16-21, in four Massachusetts and Rhode Island institutions. The anthology, based on translations of records originally compiled by Roxana Lewis in 1899, was privately published for the family as […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Conferences, Education, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

Alert: Ernesto de Sousa Scholarship accepting applications – Internship

31 January 2013

The Ernesto de Sousa Scholarship program is accepting applications for its annual award for the best original project in the field of experimental intermedia art.  Applicants must be of Portuguese nationality and have a good grasp of the English language. The designation of “experimental intermedia creation” encompasses any creative proposal associating image, sound and movement, […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Azores, Education, Featured, Film, Madeira, Music, Organizations, Photography, Portugal, Scholarships, World

Absolutely! Nazaré has the tallest waves in the world! – Portugal

30 January 2013

On Monday, U.S. surfer Garrett McNamara, 45, rode in Nazaré, Portugal, the largest swell ever ridden by a surfer. Apparently, he sailed down from the top of a 100 feet wave, at Praia do Norte, a shoreline known to professional surfers to produce some of the biggest waves in the world. In November 2011, over […]

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BCMM: Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan art exhibition – Boston, MA

29 January 2013

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, MA, presents an exhibition displaying nanban trade art influenced by the arrival Portuguese missionaries and merchants in Japan, during the 16th and 17th centuries, the first Europeans known to have reached Japan in recorded history. Titled, “Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods” the exhibition […]

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Gay-rights: Senator Paiva Weed opposing same sex marriage bill – Rhode Island

28 January 2013

Portuguese-American, Senate President, Teresa Paiva-Weed remains opposed to the bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Rhode Island, despite the House of Representatives’ overwhelming vote in favor last week. The measure would make Rhode Island the 10th state to allow gay marriage. Rhode Island is the only state in New England that has not legalized same-sex marriage. Paiva […]

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