K-pop is a $4 billion global industry. Nam has toured throughout Asia, Canada, and the United States, and performed at KCON (in Los Angeles and New York), an annual celebration of Hailyu, the umbrella term for the expanding “Korean Wave” of music, television drama, fashion, and food. Between 2013 and 2016, he hosted 207 episodes of the popular Korean-language, internet-based talkshow After School Club.

This past summer, Nam released “Into You,” his first English single. “K-pop serves a very niche community,” he recently told the U.S.-based pop culture news network Fusion. “But I think it would be great to see Asian-Americans and Korean faces going beyond that.”

On the afternoon of September 8, Truesdell received a phone call informing her she had been chosen to receive one of the 24 MacArthur Foundation fellowships of 2015, commonly referred to as the genius award. Under her leadership, ADA is currently helping to develop counterparts in Europe, India, and Latin America. Describing ADA’s designs and construction techniques as “open source,” she says, “Everything we do here, we want to make sure can happen globally.”

The West Roxbury native studied operations and management at Boston College before serving three years in the Peace Corps in Ghana. He joined CRS in 1972, and ran agriculture and nutrition projects in Sierra Leone. From 1978 to 1985, Hackett led CRS’s operations throughout Africa, including its responses to the Ethiopian famine. In Africa he also met his wife, Joan, a Concord native and CRS employee in Cameroon. Hackett served as CRS’s country representative in the Philippines from 1987 to 1992. His CRS presidency spanned the Rwandan genocide, the earthquake in Haiti, and HIV/AIDs crises in Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia. For much of this period he was a member of the White House Global Poverty Task Force and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council Cor Unum, which organizes the Church’s charitable work.

Ambassador Hackett and his staff of 15 at the chancery in central Rome (on a campus shared with the U.S. Embassy to Italy) collaborate with the Vatican to address global humanitarian issues, from world hunger to religious freedom. Hackett also helped organize Pope Francis’s visit to the United States in September.

The former biology major—who also earned a master’s in architecture from Harvard University—has had solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Tang Teaching Museum, and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. In 2014 he received a Guggenheim fellowship in creative arts.

Doyle’s numerous public installations include Social Structure II, a latticed cedar sculpture for the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo on which he collaborated with local artists; Showershade, an outdoor pavilion in Austin, Texas, with a metal corrugated roof he calls “a nod to Renaissance and Baroque ceiling frescos and digital animation”; and the animated Bright Canyon, which was projected on 15 jumbotrons simultaneously in New York City’s Times Square every night, July 1–31, 2014, for a “Midnight Moment.”

On September 7, Weihenmayer will climb into a one-man kayak at Lee’s Ferry, Arizona, and begin a 277-mile journey down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He will be guided by a voice in his ear, that of a trailing kayaker who will be wearing a microphone transmitting to an earpiece worn by Weihenmayer. After the “slow and methodical” experience of high-altitude ascents, Weinhenmayer says, navigating the river—with its more than 200 rapids, whirlpools, and falls—will be “the scariest thing I’ve ever done.”

Weihenmayer studied English and communication at Boston College. When he is not climbing, skiing, paddling, skydiving, or biking, the married father of two travels internationally as a motivational speaker for the likes of Apple, Walmart, and Pfizer.

From a list of University Dining Services’ specialties and bestsellers. View today’s menus here.

Steak and cheese sandwich—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

Omelettes-to-order (made from cage-free eggs)—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

Honey Q chicken wrap (honey-barbecue fried popcorn chicken with lettuce, tomatoes, and ranch dressing)—served at McElroy Commons.

Frozen yogurt—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

New England Classic sandwich (slices of smoked turkey, Granny Smith apples, and Vermont cheddar with honey Dijon dressing, on cranberry-apple bread)—served at Hillside Café and Stuart Hall.

Grilled chicken breast—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

Salmon fillet—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

Tuscan vegetable pizza—served at Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall.

Moniz joined the MIT faculty in 1973, and from 1983 to 1992 he led the university’s federally sponsored Bates Linear Accelerator Center. His confirmation would mark the sixth government position held by the former Boston College physics major, who earned his doctorate from Stanford University. During the Clinton administration Moniz served as an associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (1995–97) and as under secretary of the Department of Energy (1997–2001). In the Obama administration he has been a member of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (2010–12), the cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council (2009–present), and the Defense Department’s Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (2010–present).

In a November 2011 Foreign Affairs article titled “Why We Still Need Nuclear Power” (available online for a fee) Moniz wrote, “It would be a mistake to let [Japan’s nuclear accident at] Fukushima cause governments to abandon nuclear power and its benefits,” among which he counted its relative cleanliness, reliability, and low cost. “The public,” he stated, “needs to be convinced that nuclear power is safe.” Moniz has also said (in a 2010 interview with the Switch Energy Project) that he is “bullish” on solar energy. As he wrote in Foreign Affairs, “If the United States takes a hiatus from creating new clean-energy options . . . Americans will look back in 10 years with regret.”

“I knew at a very young age I wanted to run a company, and in school and beyond I was training all my life for what I do today,” Morrison told the Wall Street Journal in May. She recalled how her father, a former Cincinnati Bell CFO, frequently talked business at the dinner table with his four daughters during her childhood. Now, Morrison and her sisters are all executives.

A communications and philosophy major who played defensive end on the Boston College football team, Rawlings went on to spend some 20 years at marketing communications firms in Dallas, including DDB Needham Dallas Group (formerly Tracy-Locke), the largest agency in the Southwest, where he was CEO from 1991 to 1996. From 1997 to 2003 he led Pizza Hut, and in 2004 he helped found CIC Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, becoming vice chairman.

Appointed by a previous mayor in 2005 as chair of the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, a volunteer position, Rawlings became known as the city’s “homeless czar.” After the city committed close to $24 million toward the Bridge, a facility to provide shelter, health care, and other services to the chronically homeless, he oversaw its construction and raised $12 million in private donations for its operations. “There is no question I’ve got access,” Rawlings said about his fundraising efforts. But people don’t give money because they’re your friends. People give money because there is a big idea they can get excited about.”