Springfield College 4/10/12: Springfield College Announces 2012 Commencement Speakers. Tim Murphy, head football coach at Harvard University, and Charles H. Rucks, Esq., a well-known community leader, will deliver commencement addresses at the Springfield College 2012 Commencement ceremonies. Murphy will address undergraduates on Sunday, May 13, at 9:30 a.m., at the MassMutual Center in downtown Springfield. The Thomas Stephenson Family Head Coach for Harvard Football, Murphy has led the Harvard Crimson to 10 consecutive winning seasons. His 120 wins at Harvard are the most in the program's history. Known by his peers as one of the game’s finest teachers and motivators, in 2012 Murphy is in his 19th year as Harvard’s head coach and serves as president of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). Murphy, of Wayland, Mass., earned a bachelor of science degree in 1978 and a master of education the following year from Springfield College. He was a four-year starter on the Springfield College football team, earning a small college All-New England linebacker award as a senior. He did additional postgraduate work at Boston University.

Wayland Town Crier 12/5/11: Massachusetts teen releases second edition of 'Brain Snacks'. Teens sometimes need a bit of guidance, and oftentimes that guidance needs to come from someone other than their parents, teachers and coaches. It needs to come from someone who really gets it, someone who’s cool and collected and who doesn’t condescend. In Alex Southmayd’s second edition of “Brain Snacks for Teens on the Go!: 50 Smart Ideas to Turbo-Charge Your Life,” the young author provides that guidance. He offers a simple “how-to” on making the most of one’s teen years. As in any personal development book, establishing the author’s credibility poses a challenge. After all, Alex Southmayd, a resident of Wayland and Weston, is not a professor at Harvard University, and he is not a psychologist – he’s just a freshman at Amherst College.

Wayland Patch 9/20/11: Filmmaker: Film 'Optimistic' Despite 'Bump in the Road of Kenya's History'. To a land far, far away, Wayland resident John Michalczyk took a video camera, a script and a curiosity about how a once “very enviable, democratically stable country” could erupt in a moment into virtual war zone where heinous bloodshed, rape and violence would displace 300,000 people and leave more than 1,000 dead. In 1997, Michalczyk, a documentary filmmaker and Boston College fine arts professor, began working on a series of films about conflict resolution around the world. In January 2011, he turned his lens on Kenya for the ninth film in the series.

WBUR 5/13/11:  Local man invents new uber grass. The first thing you notice about Jackson Madnick’s house in Wayland is that there’s no lawn. He lives by a pond, so for eight years he experimented with grass seed by growing batches of it on his patio. "We had thousands and thousands of little cups with numbers on it and I kept a log book," said Madnick. And he examined the seed in relative secrecy. People would come by and ask about the little cups of dirt on his patio. Madnick said he would just tell them it was "for a little experiment." "I didn’t know whether it would ever turn into something as useful a breakthrough as it is," Madnick said. Madnick’s breakthrough is called Pearl’s Premium Low Maintenance Lawn Seed. Once it’s established, it doesn’t need watering or fertilizing. The grass also stays greener in the winter and it grows slowly, so it needs less mowing.

Wayland Town Crier 1/10/11: Wayland attorney heads to Center for Work & Family at BC. Attorney Lauren Stiller Rikleen of Wayland, a senior partner at Bowditch & Dewey LLP, and an author and popular commentator on the advancement of women in the legal profession, has been named executive-in-residence at the Center for Work & Family at the Boston College Carroll School of Management. She will also be teaching as an adjunct at the Law School.

BOSTON—Lawrence M. Green, of Wayland, a shareholder with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., the largest law firm in New England devoted exclusively to intellectual property…

Metrowest Daily News 12/28/10: Wayland resident named undersecretary for energy. Philip Giudice of Wayland has been appointed undersecretary for energy in the state’s Department of…