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spring 2018
Message from Dean Gregory Kalscheur, S.J.
The first element of the University’s new Strategic Plan commits Boston College to reenvision liberal arts education through enriching the core curriculum, strengthening faculty, promoting innovative and interdisciplinary teaching, and providing more curricular options through new minors and greater collaboration among BC's schools. The Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences lies at the heart of these efforts. READ DEAN KALSCHEUR'S FULL MESSAGE »
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Undergraduate research in the spotlight
A $156,000 grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation will support six intensive interdisciplinary undergraduate research fellowships in biology and chemistry at Boston College—one of only 12 U.S. colleges and universities designated as “awarding institutions” in the 2018 Beckman Scholars Program. Over the next three years, two Beckman scholars each year will work side-by-side with noted faculty mentors, pursuing research that addresses problems of social significance. GO TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE BECKMAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM »
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MCAS alumni mentors look back
Meet eight of 61 alumni mentors who took part this year in Endeavor, a three-day career exploration program for sophomores majoring in the liberal arts. Some 225 second-year students returned to campus before the end of Winter Break to participate in the multifaceted program, and to network with alumni such as these. GO TO A SLIDE SHOW OF ALUMNI ENDEAVOR MENTORS » |
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Business at hand
Starting next year, majors in the arts and sciences will have the option of minoring in business management. Consistent with BC’s strategic goal of integrating the liberal arts with professional disciplines, the Carroll School of Management will offer course sequences in accounting, finance, marketing, leadership, and managing for the public good. GO TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT THE NEW MANAGEMENT MINOR » |
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Reflections of a Jesuit film critic
BC Libraries interviews recently retired Film Studies Professor Richard Blake, S.J., a film historian, author, and former culture critic for America magazine who spent his boyhood following around his father, a movie theater checker in New York City. Blake went on to write about Lutheran theology in the films of Ingmar Bergman, the “indelible Catholic imagination” in the work of five filmmakers, and the works of Woody Allen. GO TO A VIDEO OF THE BLAKE INTERVIEW »
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Of Note
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The American Physical Society elected Professor of Physics Ziqiang Wang a 2017 fellow in the organization’s Division of Condensed Matter Physics.
With 17 students receiving Fulbright grants in 2017–18, Boston College ranked 14th in the nation among research universities that earned the awards.
Boston College launches a pilot journalism minor this fall, offering a six-course program to undergraduates across the University. Associate Professor of English Angela Ards will direct the program.
Inaugurated with the opening of the new McMullen Museum space last year, the Terrace is a digital publication that is run by students in the museum's Student Ambassador Program. It features scholarly articles by faculty and students as well as essays and images.
A new iridium catalyst shows promise in harvesting and storing solar energy, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dunwei Wang, associate professor of chemistry, was a lead researcher on the international team of scientists who developed the catalyst.
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The Society of Historical Studies has awarded its Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History to English Professor Sarah Gwyneth Ross for her Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice (Harvard University Press, 2016).
Gianinno Family Sesquicentennial Assistant Professor of Psychology John P. Christianson and a team of BC researchers describe how the brain’s insular cortex, which processes senses and emotions, controls reactions to or avoidance of others through the action of the hormone oxytocin in the latest edition of Nature Neuroscience.
Research Professor Paul Strother’s chance discovery of a 200-million-year-old moth fossil led him to reevaluate the evolutionary relationship between plants and insects, as described in a new report published in Science Advances. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Scientific American took note of Strother’s work.
Why do some national movements succeed in toppling governments while others do not? BC Libraries presents a video of Peter Krause, assistant professor of political science, taking on the question—the topic of his new book, Rebel Power (Cornell University Press, 2016).
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