Forty-three middle school students from 13 partner schools participated, according to Joy Moore, vice president and execu tive director of the institute. The Academy students, who stayed in Williams Hall on Upper Campus, began their typical day at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast, followed by an assembly. Morning classes rotated between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer ing and Mathematics), language arts, and enrichment; evenings included small-group reflection, journaling, and quiet time be
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“This year’s new faculty cohort is not only among the biggest but also the most diverse and accomplished,” said Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo. “These re markable additions to our faculty during one of the most competitive labor markets in memory is a testament to the attractive ness of Boston College and the efforts of our deans and faculty in bringing them to campus.”
Boston College is welcoming 63 fulltime faculty members this academic year, one of the largest such cohorts in recent memory, according to University admin istrators—and one that also reflects key objectives in BC’s efforts to recruit out standing scholars.
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Almost half of BC’s new hires are fac ulty of color, including 13 Black faculty, both all-time highs, noted Soo. Eleven of the new faculty members are Asian and six are SixHispanic.ofthe new faculty are filling en dowed chairs—important benchmarks of academic excellence in and of themselves, Soo pointed out; half are women and half are faculty of color.
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“Each age has its challenges, and given its religious and intellectual heritage, I believe Boston College has a special obligation and opportunity to model how to engage and help resolve troubling issues through careful listening, honest and respectful dialogue, and commitment to truth and the common good,” he said. “Such attitudes and actions reflect our democratic roots, belief in hu man dignity, and the value of each person.”
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Her emphasis on learning as a whole person process, one that in volves the development of ethical dispositions as well as technical knowledge, fits wonderfully with the BC and Lynch School mission.
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Yet another key development cited by Soo is the arrival of two faculty members at the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research center addressing critical societal issues in the areas of en ergy, health, and the environment, and the
Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley and Executive Vice President Mi chael Lochhead also spoke at Convocation, which was held in Robsham Theater.
“The inaugural PMI Summer Enrich ment Program received high marks from the students who participated,” said Moore. “We sought to create a balance of strong academic work along with lessons focused around three core values: confi dence, tenacity, and courage. Students also enjoyed swimming and playing basketball
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Along with offering big-picture perspec tives on Boston College’s academic and formational roles, Fr. Leahy reviewed the University’s progress on several fronts, in cluding fundraising over the past year, and hailed important recent developments in international engagement that signify BC’s strengthened global profile.
Speaking at yesterday’s annual University Convocation, Boston College President Wil liam P. Leahy, S.J., pointed to BC’s “distinc tive heritage and mission” as a valuable asset in confronting major crises and controver sies of our times—especially as a means to rise above political and social divisions and reaffirm “our commitment to democracy, civility, and the rule of law.
Exhibitions on photojournalist Arnie Jarmak and alternative comics open McMullen Museum of Art’s fall season
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Alumna author Liz Hauck will be keynote speaker at the Sept. 8 event
The Academy, a cost-free, summer resi dential enrichment program for Greater Boston-area middle and high school stu dents—and one of four components of Boston College’s Pine Manor Institute for Student Success (PMI) initiative—held its inaugural weeklong session July 31-August 7.
Students tackled a math problem at the inaugural Summer Enrichment Program, the Acad emy, part of Boston College’s Pine Manor Institute for Student Success initiative.
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in the Connell Recreation Center with a few student-athletes, who took the time to be with our students. Plus, meal times were always a happy time, thanks to the BC Dining Gabriellateam.”Potter, an incoming eighthgrader at Lawrence Catholic Academy, thought that the PMI Academy was “a
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“We are delighted to welcome our 63 new faculty members to the University community, and the expertise and experi ence they bring with them,” said Soo. “They will play an enormous role in help ing BC fulfill its academic and formational mission.”
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Boston College Magazine, the University’s alumni publication [bc.edu/bcm], brought home Bronze awards for its Summer 2021 and Fall 2021 issues; it was one of only five magazines in its category honored this year. The magazine also won a Gold award for the piece “Freedom Fighters” on the Bos ton College Innocence Program, which has overturned the convictions of people who have been wrongfully incarcerated.
“Keeping the Faith,” which won a Sil ver award, tells the story of Eagles pitcher Samrath Singh ’22, believed to be the first observant Sikh to ever play Division 1 baseball. The video, previously recognized in a national awards competition, illustrates the power of faith and identity, as Singh describes how his faith aligns with BC’s Je suit values. It garnered more than 300,000 views across multiple media platforms, including an NBC News piece and inter view with Singh on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”Creative Videos Services Director Walsh said the two videos represented “some of my most rewarding proj ects to date. My passion is capturing compelling stories from behind the lens, and together with my colleagues on the OUC video team, it is a true joy to highlight the unique spirit of the Boston College community each day.”
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working on criminal and racial justice is sues as a public defender. He worked in private practice with Schroeter Goldmark & Bender for 27 years, representing clients in a plethora of cases, ranging from drug conspir acy to first-degree murder. He then served at the American Civil Liberties Union as a dep uty legal director and director of the ACLU’s Trone Center for Justice and Equality before launching the Who We Are Project.
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University President William P. Leahy, S.J., will celebrate the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit with homilist Rev. Henry Shea, S.J., on September 8 at noon in the Plaza at O’Neill Library. In the case of inclem ent weather, the Mass will be held in Conte Forum.Allmembers of the University com munity are invited to attend the Mass, a tradition for the opening of the academic year at Jesuit institutions dating back to the first Jesuit school in Messina, Sicily, in 1548. Classes are canceled that day from noon to 1:15 p.m. The festive liturgy serves to wel come new members into the Boston College
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community, renew friendships, and invoke the presence of the Holy Spirit for the year to come.“TheMass of the Holy Spirit is one of my highlights of the Boston College calen dar,” said Associate Vice President and Di rector of Campus Ministry Fr. Tony Penna. “Students, faculty, administrators, and priests from the Jesuit communities will join together to center themselves and ask for God’s blessings on everything the University does throughout the new academic year.”
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In addition to being a nationally recog nized trial attorney and respected teacher of trial advocacy, Robinson teaches about the history of anti-Black racism all across the United States. His lecture “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” formed the basis of the 2021 feature-length docu mentary of the same name. In March 2021, he created the nonprofit organization Who We Are Project, which seeks to expose the historical truths of anti-Black racism in the UnitedAppointedStates. through the BC Law Rap paport Center for Law and Public Policy, Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professors are public sector luminaries who spend a semester at the school teaching a seminar on public policy, delivering a community address, and meeting with students, faculty, and members of the BC and Rappaport CenterRobinsoncommunities. willformally begin his tenure as Rappaport Professor on September 8, when he will present and discuss his “Who We Are” documentary at 7 p.m. in BC Law East Wing 115 A and B. During the semes ter, he will also teach the seminar Orwell’s Nightmare: United States Law and the Sup port of Anti-Black Racism and participate in a range of other programs presented by the Rappaport Center.
The Mass of the Holy Spirit is organized by the Office of Campus Ministry.
“It is a great honor for Boston Col lege Magazine to have been recognized by CASE as one of the nation’s very best alumni magazines. These awards reflect the talent, creativity, and hard work of everyone on our staff,” said Boston Col lege Magazine Editor John Wolfson, who praised Deputy Editor Courtney Hollands (who left BC this past summer), Design Director Keith Ake, Staff Writer Elizabeth Clemente, Director of Photography Lee Pellegrini, and Senior Photographer Caitlin Cunningham.Wolfsonalso expressed gratitude for the support of the BC administration and BCM readership. “Awards are wonderful, but the true honor lies in being entrusted to tell the stories of Boston College.”
Jeffery Robinson, founder and CEO of the Who We Are Project and writer of the documentary “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” is the Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Public Policy at Boston College Law School for the fall semester.
The Gold award-winning “That BC Feeling” video captured the spirit of the BC community despite the challenges of COVID-19, showcasing student life, and the connection and friendship shared by students on the Heights.
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BC Law Magazine was honored for the Summer 2020 and Winter 2021 editions, which highlight its community’s academic excellence, the magazine’s depiction of the dynamic world of law, and engagement in legal current affairs.
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roster of articles: among them, a celebra tion of 50 years of coeducation at the University; pieces on Joe Dobbratz ’51, a decorated fighter pilot with a namesake glacier in Antarctica, and Football Head Coach Jeff Hafley; and a Q&A with Steve Pemberton ’89, H.’15, M.A. ’19, author of The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World.
University Advancement and the BC Law Magazine also were recognized with high honors from CASE, each with Bronze awards. Advancement won in the Engage ment category for Discovery Expeditions: Innovation in Values-Driven Board En gagement: the revision of its Board of Re gents engagement from a committee-based structure to a circular approach, to inform and inspire them, and allow Regents to speak confidently as ambassadors about the value and distinction of a BC education.
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The son of immigrants and a first-gener ation college student whose scholarship has focused on urban sociology and immigra tion, Fr. Berrelleza will begin as dean this month.Messina College, part of the University’s $100 million Pine Manor Institute for Student Success initiative to enhance edu cational opportunity for underrepresented, first-generation students, will offer an as sociate’s degree program beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year. The residential college will enroll 200 students and be located on the former Pine Manor Col lege campus, now known as the Brookline Campus of Boston College.
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be part of a transformative educational ex perience is something I feel called to do.”
The protocols will be subject to revision, based on changing conditions, as well as guidance from the CDC and state and lo cal departments of public health, they said.
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In announcing the appointment, Pro vost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley said Fr. Berrelleza—who earned a M. Div. degree in theology and ministry from BC in 2015—is the ideal person to lead Mes sina College given his background, experi ence, and passion for Jesuit educational ideals.“Erick speaks eloquently about the transformative and life-giving impact of educational access for underserved com munities,” said Quigley. “He brings vision, commitment, and a contagious belief in the potential of the students we will be educating at Messina College. I look for ward to working with him when he returns to Boston College this fall.”
Fr. Berrelleza draws parallels between BC’s opening of Messina College and the Jesuits’ founding of its namesake school in Sicily in 1548 and Boston College, which was established in 1863 to serve Boston’s immigrant community.
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transition from a COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic, the University will continue to treat the virus as a manageable illness,” wrote Trainor and Comeau, in describ ing the guidelines—which follow CDC recommendations—for members of the University community who test positive for COVID: On-campus student residents, for example, who cannot isolate at their permanent residence must do so in their residence hall, exercising proper mask use andTrainorprecautions. andComeau encouraged all members of our community to stay vigi lant in recognizing possible COVID-19 symptoms—sore throat, fatigue, and head ache (even if mild) can be indicators of the coronavirus—and to utilize the BC Daily Symptom Checker every day before com ing to campus, “as it is an important asset in our community-wide effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.”
The full letter is available at the Uni versity’s COVID-19 information website, bc.edu/forward.
Husson came to Boston College from Brown University in 2002, serving as vice president for development before being named senior vice president for University Advancement in 2004.
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“Jim has served Boston College gener ously and effectively for the past 20 years,” said Fr. Leahy. “I thank him for his many contributions to the University. “
Vice President for Development Amy Yancey will serve as acting senior vice presi dent for University Advancement.
Boston College has named Erick Ber relleza, S.J., assistant professor of sociology at Santa Clara University, as the founding dean of Messina College.
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In addition to Messina College, the Pine Manor Institute includes a residential sum mer enrichment program for middle and high school students called the Academy, which offers summer courses in English, mathematics, and science for individuals nominated by principals, teachers, counsel ors, and community leaders [see separate story on page 1].
“It is difficult to put into words all that Boston College has meant to me during the past 20 years,” said Husson. “Profes sionally, I have worked alongside an incred ibly talented community of advancement professionals, and together we have been inspired by BC’s alumni, parents, and
Boston College will offer COVID-19 vaccination/booster clinics during the 2022-2023 academic year, and follow CDC guidelines for eligibility. At this time, those 50 years and older and all in dividuals over 12 who are moderately or severely immunocompromised are eligible for a second booster. During the fall se mester, vaccination/booster and flu clinics will be available on Mondays (full day) and Wednesdays (half day) in the Connell Rec reation Center Wet Classroom. For those interested, flu shots will be administered in mid-September or earlier if available.
For assistance concerning COVID-19 testing or vaccination/booster matters, stu dents may contact UHS at covidtesting@ bc.edu, and faculty/staff can get in touch with Human Resources at HR@bc.edu.
In a letter to the University community, Vice President for Human Resources Da vid Trainor and Dr. Douglas Comeau, di rector of University Health Services (UHS) and Primary Care Sports Medicine, noted that BC requires all students, faculty, and staff who will be on campus this semester to be fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Those with University-grant ed vaccination/booster exemptions will continue to be required to mask and be tested as mandated by UHS and Human Resources.TheUniversity will not conduct asymp tomatic surveillance testing during the aca demic year, said Trainor and Comeau.
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A Los Angeles native and a member of the USA West Province of Jesuits, Fr. Ber relleza also holds a B.A. in philosophy from Loyola Marymount University and a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University. He was a visiting scholar in BC’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life from 2019-2021. He has also served as a member of the board of trustees at Boston College, Santa Clara University, Brophy College Preparatory School in Phoenix, and Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose.As an assistant professor at Santa Clara University, he helped students to develop portable research skills through experiential learning in local neighborhoods and with public community organizations, while earning a reputation as a respected scholar whose research and teaching interests focus on space and place, urban communities, Latinos, and the sociology of religion.
Husson said that he was grateful for his time at Boston College and the oppor tunity to work with University President William P. Leahy, S.J., and the dedicated staff within University Advancement.
Fr. Berrelleza said he was honored to serve the school and provide opportunities for individuals who have not had access to the transformative power of a Jesuit educa tion.“As a first-generation college student, I did not have a lot of people I could talk to about applying to college and how to navi gate the college experience,” said Fr. Ber relleza. “Serving as dean of Messina Col lege will enable me to help provide access to underprivileged and underrepresented students who too often face an uphill battle without the vital support we will offer.”
The University will not require masks or face coverings for students, faculty, and staff—other than those with vaccination/ booster exemptions—while on campus in the fall semester, but encourages those who prefer to wear masks to do so.
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Boston College recently announced its COVID-19 plans and protocols for the fall 2022 semester, including a series of vacci nation/booster clinics for eligible members of the University community.
friends as they have propelled the Uni versity to new heights. Personally, I have witnessed the transformative effect of a BC education through the experience of my daughter and other members of my family who today proudly call themselves Eagles. I will always remain grateful to Fr. Leahy for the opportunity he gave me to be part of this vibrant community.”
“The Jesuits founded Messina College 474 years ago to respond to the needs of the local population where access to educa tion was limited. Boston College did the same when it opened 159 years ago. Mes sina College is a further response to ad dressing the gaps in educational access that exist today. Giving students—particularly those on the margins—an opportunity to
Together, these offerings expand upon Boston College’s proven success in edu cating under-resourced, first-generation students.“Asfounding dean of Messina College, I look forward to designing an academic program that will include rigor, the values of human formation, learning supports, and excellent, caring faculty, which will enable the school to thrive in the service of its students,” said Fr. Berrelleza. “My goal is to create a place that students will feel comfortable in, a place where they know we have their best interests at heart. I am excited and hopeful to begin this impor tant work.”
“Amy has a strong sense of Boston Col lege’s goals and heritage, and I am confi dent she will provide excellent leadership for our advancement area,” said Fr. Leahy.
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James J. Husson, senior vice president for University Advancement, has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at the University of Penn sylvania, effective October 17.
The Pine Manor Institute for Student Success was established in 2020 when Boston College and Pine Manor College signed an integration agreement that in cluded a $50 million commitment from Boston College that has grown to $100 million through investment returns and an anonymous pledge of $25 million.
“The University will remain guided by its commitment to protect the health and well-being of the BC community and nearby neighborhoods, and provide as normal a campus experience as possible for our students, faculty, and staff.”
Technology-Enabled Nursing Practice pilots will support the design and imple mentation of technology-based tactics and tools that enhance the practice of nursing.
Assistant Professor of Physics Qiong Ma has been named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar for 2022-2024, an honor that makes her a member of the organization’s 40th anniversary class of 18 early-career scholars recognized for their exemplary re search in a diverse range of fields.
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The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars is a unique program that provides $100,000 in unrestricted research support, in addition to mentorship, global networking, and profes sional skills development.
“The program provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore truly interdisciplin ary topics alongside some of the leading
“From the hundreds of proposals received from nurse teams around the country, we selected the boldest ideas
Ma’s quantum materials research seeks to discover and understand complex ma terials for emergent functions. By gluing together individual constituents of materi als and turning on the interactions between them, materials exhibit collective behaviors that cannot be expected from the micro scopic constituents, giving rise to emergent functions. Ma’s lab aims to understand and utilize those emergent functions for new technology.“Iamthrilled to receive this recognition,” said Ma. “It is a great honor for me to join
The CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars pro gram is part of a range of next-generation initiatives at CIFAR that aims to boost the potential of early-career researchers pursuing high-risk, high-reward ideas.
researchers in the world in search of answers to some of the toughest questions,” CIFAR Senior Director for Research Rachel Parker said.For
O’Reilly-Jacob’s project, which falls under the Direct-Reimbursement Nursing Model area, will develop a Nurse Practitio ner (NP) Practice Risk Readiness Develop ment Model that includes a tool to identify areas to improve practice risk readiness and a learning collaborative program. The model offers NP practices an opportunity to overcome challenges to risk readiness, ultimately facilitating more value-based payment contracts. The project will train
two years, scholars join one of CI FAR’s 12 research programs where they have the opportunity to collaborate with CIFAR fellows. This year’s cohort will be contribut ing to the Bio-inspired Solar Energy, Child & Brain Development, Gravity & the Extreme Universe, Learning in Machines & Brains, Quantum Information Science, and Quantum Materials programs. Once their term ends, many scholars continue to contribute to the CIFAR community, join ing as fellows, Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, or workshop participants.
Direct-Reimbursement Nursing Model pilots will expand nursing practice and elevate the value of nursing through direct reimbursement for nursing care delivery, management, and coordination outcomes.
“We conducted a survey and found only a quarter of nurse practitioner prac tices participate in value-based payment contracts,” said O’Reilly-Jacob. “Many are
Ma said the unrestricted research funding will help purchase new equipment in her lab. Beyond the financial support, CIFAR scholars benefit from the chance to connect with their peers and learn from more expe rienced scholars, according to Ma. She said she was privileged to choose Claudia Felser, the director of Max Planck Institute and a highly accomplished quantum material physicist and chemist, as her mentor.
The Connell School of Nursing has been awarded a $1.06-million grant from the American Nurses Foundation to fund a pilot project, led by Assistant Professor Monica O’Reilly-Jacob, aimed at reducing the barriers to financial reimbursement for nurse practitioner-led practices.
O’Reilly-Jacob’s project, “Reducing Barriers to Nurse Practitioner Value-Based Care,” is being conducted with research partners Jennifer Perloff, senior scientist and director of the Institute on Healthcare Systems at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, and Connell School research scholar Cher lie Magny-Normilus.Theprojectisone of 10 innovative nurse-led projects across 20 states that have received a total of $14 million from the American Nurses Foundation through its Reimagining Nursing (RN) Initiative, which seeks to transform health care by rei magining the nursing profession.
that address key nursing challenges,” said American Nurses Foundation Executive Director Kate Judge. “These out-of-the-box solutions are what we need to transform health care and improve the lives of nurses and people in their care.”
“The goal of this initiative is to see what works, not just at one nursing school or in one hospital system, but in multiple settings across the country,” said Michelle Greanias, RN Initiative director.
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Said CIFAR President and CEO Alan Bernstein, “Humanity faces many com plex and pressing challenges, from income inequality to climate change. We need creative and talented scholars and scientists, especially the next generation of investiga tors, to contribute to the global effort to address these challenges and exciting sci ence questions. It is of utmost importance to provide opportunity for this next gen eration of innovative thinkers. That is why programs like the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program are so important for both advancing science and enabling positive change in the world.”
The RN Initiative focuses on three pri orityPractice-Readyareas: Nurse Graduates pilots will prepare newly graduated nurses to im mediately succeed in and contribute to a variety of settings where patients need care.
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the new CIFAR global scholar cohort. We are grouped together to tackle global chal lenges, such as energy shortage and climate change, using multidisciplinary approaches. Particularly, the quantum material program that I am affiliated with consists of a group of highly-accomplished scientists in my field. I am privileged to join them.”
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Theservices.”Reimagining Nursing Initiative is made possible through the generous sup port of the Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at East Bay Community Foundation, AMN Health care, Omnicell, and the Salka Impact Fund.
“The Reimagining Nursing Initiative provides the solid investments nurses need to transform the education, regulation, and practice of nursing,” said Judge. “Nurses are a natural catalytic force for accelerating the evolution of our health system because they have an unmatched perspective on prevention, wellness, and delivery of health care
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Selected from more than 200 eligible applications from 32 countries, Ma and her fellow scholars come from institutions in Canada, Chile, India, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Physics Chair Michael Graf said, “This prestigious award is yet another acknowl edgement of Professor Ma’s scholarly excel lence, and more broadly, of the global im pact of the innovative research being carried out by our faculty here at BC.”
other NP practice networks to replicate the model and bring individual NP practices together to build collective power for payer negotiation.Thisisincredibly important, noted O’Reilly-Jacob, as the United States health care system is changing the way it pays for health care, rewarding value over volume. For small, independent, NP-owned prac tices, the transition to value-based reim bursement can pose significant financial risks. Tools to understand and mitigate the risks of value-based care are often not ac cessible or are designed for physicians.
According to the Foundation, by 2025, each pilot project will deliver evidence that demonstrates how their solution improves nursing. They will also provide resources and tools that enable their solution to be widely adopted within the profession. The RN Initiative’s goal is to support the successful pilots and scale them more broadly, transforming the initial pilots into a reimagined health care system that puts nurses at the center.
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“I also will have numerous opportunities to network and collaborate with peers from diverse disciplines across CIFAR’s research programs,” Ma said. “CIFAR hosts special ized leadership and communication skills training workshops. Travel funds are sepa rately available to cover costs associated with attendance at CIFAR meetings and also inperson visits between my mentor and me.”
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ineligible due to insufficient patient vol ume or other payer rules. However, these practices often intentionally stay small so that they can form better patient-provider relationships. This project aims to find a path for these critically needed NP prac tices to flourish within a changing health care payment landscape.”
Selected from a pool of more than 300 submissions, the 10 pilot projects lean into nurses’ knowledge and expertise to develop solutions that allow them to work more effectively in various care settings. Accord ing to the Foundation, the pilots aim to create a future where nurses—in hospitals, schools, clinics, and communities—drive change; use their skills; and, most impor tantly, are valued and compensated for the care they provide.
Will discuss her work on the role of technology in children’s lives at Sept. 15 event
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The Augustus Long Professor is named in honor of the former president, chair, and CEO of the Texaco Corp., who received an honorary degree from Boston College in 1957.
he said exemplify the University’s mission in academics and formation and its com mitment to excellence, including the BC Prison Education Program at MCI-Shirley (in which he has taught American history), and the programs in Human-Centered Engineering and Global Public Health and the Common Good.
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“I think there is an ongoing sense of renewal here, one that shapes much of our thinking. It’s that renewal which brings imagination and passion into our teaching and research.”
knowledgeable about our mission, goals, andLochheadprograms.”described BC’s financial pic ture as a largely positive one. FY22 saw a strong operating performance driven by increases in undergraduate and graduate enrollment and shrewd management of expenses, he said. With a solid credit rating and generally stable outlook, along with effective integrated planning in strategic, capital, and operational areas, BC is well positioned to weather the impact of infla tion in areas such as tuition costs and finan cial aid, salaries and wages, and construction and borrowing costs.
“These events are worthy of notice because they reflect successful efforts to in crease knowledge of BC and to strengthen our global profile and connections,” he said. “More than 600 people from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia came to Boston College. I think participants left impressed and much more
Published in March, Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Pro gramming focuses on how learning techno logical skills also involves developing ethical dispositions.“Iamexcited to join the Lynch School and the Boston College community,” said Bers. “This is a wonderful opportunity to build on the work of my DevTech research group for the last two decades to have wider impact in laying out a pedagogical
potential donors has had “a major impact.”
“Keeping this positive trend going is a major challenge and commitment,” said Fr. Leahy, who added that the willingness of faculty members and others in the Uni versity community to meet and speak with
A native of Argentina, Bers is a pioneer in the field of early childhood technology with projects of national and international visibility. She is widely recognized for cocreating the free ScratchJr programming language, used worldwide by over 35 million children, and as the creator of the KIBO ro botic kit, which helps children learn how to code without screens or keyboards by using
BC Senior Leadership Gives Outlook for Coming Year
Combined with robust undergraduate and graduate enrollments and the addition of 63 new faculty members this year [see page 1], said Quigley, BC is poised to ful fill its unique charge.
This year, she was named a fellow by the American Education Research Association (AERA), an honor that acknowledges ex ceptional contributions to and excellence in education research. Earlier, she received the AERA’s Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Scholarship in Learning Technologies, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engi neers from the Office of Science and Tech nology, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding researchers and technologists launching their external careers.
At Tufts, she established and directed the graduate certificate program on Early Child hood Technology, and held a secondary ap pointment in the Computer Science Depart ment. In 2001 she created the interdisciplin ary Developmental Technologies (DevTech) research group, which she is conveying to the Lynch PassionateSchool.about tapping the power of expressive technologies to promote learning in young children, Bers is the author of Cod ing as Playground: Programming and Com putational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom; Teaching Computational Thinking and Coding to Young Children (which she edited with contributions from the DevTech research team); The Official ScratchJr Book: Help Your Kids Learn to Code (with Mitchel Resnick); Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground; and Blocks to Robots: Learn ing with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom
Marina Umaschi Bers, former chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts Uni versity and widely recognized for her work on computational thinking, robotics, and technological tools for children to learn com puter programming, has joined the Lynch School of Education and Human Develop ment as the Augustus Long Professor, an nounced Stanton E.F. Wortham, the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School. The Lynch School will formally welcome Bers on September 15 at 7 p.m. in Higgins 300, where she will present an overview of her work by using the metaphor of play grounds versus playpens to explain the role of technology in children’s lives. The lecture, followed by a reception, will cover ideas from her recent book, Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Pro gramming, in which she argues that coding should be taught not only as a technical skill but as a new literacy—a new way for chil dren to express themselves and engage with the world and others. (For registration, go to https://bit.ly/marina-bers-talk-sept15)“WearethrilledtohaveMarinaBers join our faculty,” said Wortham, who noted that she will also have a courtesy appointment in BC’s Computer Science Department. “Her work touches tens of thousands of children
During his talk, Lochhead spoke about recently completed capital projects—nota bly the new science facility at 245 Beacon Street and the Ricci Institute for ChineseWestern Cultural History—and others under way, such as the Hoag Pavilion. He also touched on University-wide initiatives such as sustainability efforts, the roll-out of the Eagle Apps student information services, and the Ignatian Leadership Development Program under Human Resources, and updated the timeline for creation of BC’s next institutional master plan, projected to be approved in the fall of next Quigleyyear.singled out recent initiatives
thy, S.J., became dean of the School of The ology and Ministry; Blake James assumed the post of William V. Campbell Director of Intercollegiate Athletics [see page 6]; Erick Berrelleza, S.J., was appointed as founding dean of Messina College, part of BC’s Pine Manor Institute for Student Success [see page 3]; and Amy Yancey was named as act ing senior vice president for University Ad vancement with the departure next month of James Husson [see page 3].
Even as BC undergoes these and other transitions, it has continued to meet many fundraising goals to support key institution al objectives. The University received com mitments of $315.7 million in fiscal year 2022, said Fr. Leahy, including $204.4 mil lion in cash—compared to $56.6 million 20 years ago. He lauded the success of the Be a Beacon Campaign for financial aid, which was launched two years ago with a goal of $125 million, and now stands at $254.7 million, having received $101.4 million in the past year alone. Faculty and research priorities received $172.7 million, he added, and athletics $49.3 million in FY22.
Bers conducts seminars and professional development institutes on learning technolo gies for early childhood educators, and serves as a consultant to toy companies, media studios, schools, and educational organiza tions seeking to capitalize on the power of new technologies for young children. She has worked with international partners in Argen tina, Colombia, Spain, Costa Rica, Singa pore, Israel, and Thailand, among others.
in dozens of countries around the world, and the technological skills that she focuses on are increasingly important today. Her em phasis on learning as a whole person process, one that involves the development of ethical dispositions as well as technical knowledge, fits wonderfully with the BC and Lynch School mission.”
Another important area of growth for Boston College is its international presence, especially in Jesuit and Catholic educa tion, said Fr. Leahy, who listed major pro grams and events involving—and in most cases hosted by—the University in recent months. These included a pilgrimage to historical sites associated with St. Ignatius, as well as assemblies of the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities, the Inter national Federation of Catholic Universities, as the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies International Symposium on Jesuit His tory and the Church, and the International Association of Jesuit Universities—which featured an appearance by Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa, S.J. BC also hosted a conference for the International Association of Jesuit Engineering Schools, despite the fact that the University, while offering a pro gram in human-centered engineering, does not have an engineering school.
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foundation for teaching programming that encompasses the cultivation of character and a moral compass along with technical knowl edge and skills.”
wooden blocks. She also serves as content director for the upcoming “Work It Out Wombats!” PBS animation series focused on computational thinking for preschoolers that will broadcast nationally next year.
He also discussed the life and work of two members of the academic community who died during the past summer: Rev. Michael Himes, retired professor of theol ogy, and Michael Martin, who taught in the Morrissey College of Arts and Science Honors Program and later served as an as sociate dean for Morrissey College. Their devotion to students and colleagues, and to BC’s institutional values, he said, serve as a model for the well-rounded education the University seeks to provide.
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She completed a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, an M.Ed. in educational tech nology at Boston University’s School of Edu cation, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Anticipated to open in the summer of 2023, the pavilion will be located at the northwest corner of Conte Forum along side Gabelli Plaza. The 35,700-squarefoot facility will include a strength and conditioning center, a sports medicine center, a nutrition center, player locker rooms and lounge area, and a renovated 10,700-square-foot practice gym.
Traffic along Campanella Way has been re-routed for the duration of the project to accommodate construction. The new route passes through the Mods parking lot before reconnecting with Campanella Way in front of the Yawkey Center.
country, and significantly increased ticket sales for the school’s football and basketball programs.
Boston College News from the Summer of 2022
•Rose Apodiakos, 95, Boston College Dining Services staff member (July 6)
Christopher S. Lee, an award-winning and highly respected cardiovascular nurse scientist, has been named to the Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Chair in Nursing in the Connell School of Nurs ing, CSON Dean and Professor Katherine Gregory has announced. He succeeds nurse researcher Mei Fu, who served as the CollegefromthroughwasChairSachsFamily/Goldmanchairholder.inauguralTheBarryEndowedinNursingestablishedagiftBostonTrustee
•Michael Martin, 70, visiting associate professor, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; associate dean, Morrissey College (July 2)
Construction began this summer on the Hoag Basketball Pavilion, the future practice home of Boston College men’s and women’s basketball programs.
•Patricia Doherty, 72, director, Institute for Scien tific Research (July 14)
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The Hoags—parents of three children, including 2014 BC alumnus Tim—said in a statement: “It was important to us to support both basketball programs and help position them for success for years to come. The belief we have in the future of both programs under [men’s basketball coach] Earl Grant and [women’s basket ball coach] Joanna Bernabei-McNamee’s leadership, was a critical factor for us. We feel very fortunate to be able to help future generations of student-athletes improve both on and off the court in this exciting new facility.”
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Illustration of the Hoag Basketball Pavilion, adjacent to Gabelli Plaza.
The Hoag Basketball Pavilion is made possible by a $15 million gift from Univer sity Trustee Michaela “Mikey” Hoag ’86, chair and founder of Part the Cloud, an
“This summer, Boston College’s global engagement emerged remarkably here in Chestnut Hill and throughout the world’s Jesuit and Catholic institutions of higher learning,” said Vice Provost for Global En gagement James F. Keenan, S.J., who is also the Canisius Professor and director of the Jesuit Institute.
•The International Association of Jesuit Engineering Schools Summit, “Jesuit En gineering Vision for a Better World” (July 13-15).•The 27th General Assembly of the Inter national Federation of Catholic Universities (July 30 to August 3).
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Members of the Boston College community who died this past summer included:
•The International Association of Jesuit Universities 2022 conference, “Discerning the Future of Jesuit Higher Education” (Au gustUniversity3-6). administrators said the conflu ence of events highlighted Boston College’s presence in prominent international organi zations that provide a leadership role in Jesuit and Catholic education.
•Rev. Michael Himes, 75, retired professor of theology (June 10)
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A proven leader within the NCAA and ACC, James served on the NCAA Board of Directors (2017-2019), NCAA Board of Governors (2017-2019), the NCAA Foot ball Oversight Committee (2015-2017), and held leadership roles on the NCAA Student Athlete Experience Committee (2019-2021). He also chaired the NCAA Division I Council, the group responsible for the day-to-day decision making for all Division I athletics. Within the ACC, he served on the Football Committee, the NIL Committee, and the Finance and Audit Committee, and was named chair of the conference’s athletics directors. He was selected as one of four recipients of the Un der Armour Athletic Director of the Year award by the National Association of Col legiate Directors of Athletics in 2016.
This summer saw Boston College host five major international assemblies that examined the legacy and role of Jesuit and Catholic education in addressing compelling modern issues:
Associate Steven M. Barry ’85 and his wife Tammy J. Barry ’85, M.Ed. ’87. The parents of two Boston College gradu ates—Courtney, a Connell School alumna, and Matt, a Carroll School of Manage ment alumnus—the Barrys are longtime BC benefactors who have supported the Connell School, financial aid, athletics, the Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner, and Pops on the Heights, among other Univer sityAspriorities.anendowed chair, Lee will focus on advancing his program of research, scien tific mentoring, and further developing the school’s global partnerships.
Blake James, the former director of athletics at the University of Miami, was named the William V. Campbell Director of Athletics at Boston College, effective July 1. He succeeds Patrick Kraft, who became vice president for intercollegiate athletics at Pennsylvania State University in April.Anexperienced, nationally respected athletics administrator who established a student-athlete approach at Miami that focused on academic achievement, athletic success, and individual development, James served as the school’s director of athletics from 2013-2021, leading the Hurricanes to multiple NCAA and ACC championships across numerous sports. In his role, he oversaw 18 varsity sports involving more than 400 student-athletes, with a staff of more than 250 individuals and an annual budget of $123 million. At Miami, he set records for athletics fundraising and led
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•The first formal meeting of college and university presidents in the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities, an interna tional network of leading Catholic universi ties dedicated to research and teaching excel lence, engagement, and global collaboration (July•The30).International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, “The Jesuits and the Church in His tory,” under the auspices of BC’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (August 1-4).
Alzheimer’s research movement in Silicon Valley that has raised more than $60 mil lion and funds 59 human trials in nine countries, and her husband Jay, a founding general partner of TCV, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. Mikey Hoag also is a founding member of the Council for Women of Boston College.
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James Named as Director of Athletics Lee Is New CSON Chair
the completion of major capital projects, including new indoor facilities for football, baseball, and golf, and facility enhance ments for men and women’s basketball.
•Edward D. “Eddie,” Miller, 91, business manag er, sports information director, Athletics; director of public relations for the University (July 5)
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Lee joined the Connell School in Janu ary 2018 as associate dean for research and director of the Office of Nursing Research. Under his leadership, the Connell School has seen a five-fold increase in the amount of external research funding and marked increases in the number and quality of grants submitted, as well as faculty publica tions.For the time being, Lee will continue in the roles of associate dean for research and Office of Nursing Research director. The University will begin a national search in the coming months for a new associate dean for research.
He negotiated and managed one of the largest collegiate sports apparel deals in the
communal significance.”
achieve that goal. The project’s outcomes will help mission-driven schools across sectors leverage communities of practice to fortify their formative education meth odology.”Thethird project, directed by Scott Seider, an associate professor in the Coun seling, Developmental & Educational Psychology Department, also centers on pre-college education, through a collabora tion with EL Education (formerly Expe ditionary Learning), a national nonprofit that partners with K-12 educators in di verse, high-need communities to transform public schools and districts into hubs of opportunity for all students. A distinctive feature of EL Education is its goal of devel oping the “curiosity, skills, knowledge, and courage needed to imagine a better world and work toward realizing it” among its students.
Lynch School Faculty Awarded Templeton Grants
“A promising opportunity in EL schools for the development of such civic character is a daily meeting called ‘Crew,’” said Se ider. “Students gather with a small group of peers and a teacher to build relation ships and engage in honest and courageous conversations about issues that impact their lives. Although a common structure across EL schools, there is substantial varia tion in how educators lead their respective Crews. Our project will engage EL educa tors across the network to identify, test, and refine promising practices within Crew that nurture students’ civic character strengths such as knowledge of social issues, feelings of social responsibility, and efficacy to effect change.”Akey outcome of the project will be a multimedia toolkit designed to bolster the capacity and effectiveness of Crew leaders throughout the EL Education network and the 45,000 students they serve, as well as educators throughout the United States who are interested in implementing such advisories.“It’swonderful to see the Templeton Foundation recognize the distinctive proj ects being done by our faculty in the area of formative education and character de velopment,” said Stanton E. F. Wortham, the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. “Understanding and fos tering the development of whole people, including ethical and spiritual aspects, is a particular strength of the Lynch School. It’s great that one of the most important foundations in this area is recognizing the breath and importance of our work.”
and Ministry.
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Martin Scanlan, an associate profes sor in educational leadership and higher education, will lead an examination of the organizational, curricular, and institutional factors that advance character formation in networks of Catholic elementary, middle, and secondary schools. The three-year investigation will identify the resources and constraints that schools face while holisti cally educating their students, and build multimedia case studies and professional development offerings to promote pedago gies of character formation more broadly, both within and beyond the field of Cath olic“Charactereducation.formation is at the heart of Catholic schooling,” said Scanlan. “Yet little is known about the challenges that schools face, as well as how to effectively capitalize on their assets in their effort to
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Home Made recounts Hauck’s experience leading a cooking program at a residential home for adolescent boys who were living in state care. The residence was part of a Bos ton nonprofit agency where Hauck’s father, Charlie Hauck ’69, had devoted more than 30 years of his professional life.
“If psychology is to reach its full po tential as a means of not only informing our understanding of the human condi tion, but also aiding in the development of moral and civic virtue, then the disciplines that have traditionally dealt with char acter—theology and philosophy—must become essential aspects of psychological education and training,” said Goodman. “The ultimate objective is to create fertile ecosystems in which these three fields of inquiry and practice can illuminate one another on topics of moral, ethical, and
(L-R) David Goodman, Scott Seider, and Martin Scanlan
suggests that we all ought to build a longer table, instead of a higher wall. With grace and tenderness, this memoir utterly affirms that it is the relationship that heals. Food brings us to the table, but cherishing leads us to joy and bravery. This is an important book because it reminds us not to venture to the margins to make a difference, but to al low the folks there to make us different.”
Elizabeth (Liz) Hauck ’00, M.Ed. ’09
startlingly deep moments of connection and community. That’s all that happens. And it’s extraordinary,” a New York Times review of Home Made remarked.
Alumna to Share Her Story at First Year Convocation
Elizabeth (Liz) Hauck ’00, M.Ed. ’09, whose memoir Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up—and What We Make When We Make Dinner, was given to all incoming first-year Boston College students this summer, will be the featured speaker at First Year Academic Convocation on Thurs day, September 8, at 7 p.m. in Conte Forum.
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Home Made touches upon topics such as grief, community, service, and accompani ment.“Her focus throughout the book stays on the boys themselves, and her gratitude toward them for welcoming her into their house. It turns out that showing up to cook and eat with people once a week allows for
The event is co-sponsored by the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science andForSociety.more on this and other Clough Center programs and activities, see bc.edu/cloughcenter.
Hauck and her father originally talked about doing the project together, but then Charlie Hauck died. Liz Hauck decided to proceed with the cooking program as “an of fering” to her late father.
The Boston College Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democ racy will hold a celebration of Constitu tion and Citizenship Day on September 12 at 4 p.m. in the Murray Conference Room. “What the Constitution Means to Us” will feature an array of crossdisciplinary BC scholars and showcase the work of undergraduate and gradu ate students from across the University. A reception will follow.
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prior to Hauck’s address, the Class of 2026 will take a torch-lit walk from Linden Lane to Conte Forum in the First Flight Procession, mirroring the same walk they will make on their graduation day. The first-year students will be sent off on First Flight with a blessing and a call to take up the words of Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola to “go set the world aflame.”
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Hauck, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the Morrissey College of Arts and Sci ences and an M.Ed. from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, is the third BC graduate to address First Year Academic Convocation since the program began in Immediately2004.
Gregory Boyle, S.J., M.Div.’84, founder of Homeboy Industries—an intervention and rehabilitation program for gang mem bers—also praised Hauck’s book: “Liz Hauck
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Constitution Day Event Sept. 12
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded three grants totaling $2.05 million to the Lynch School of Education and Hu man Development to fund three separate projects, each led by a different faculty member.One of the nation’s 25 largest grantmaking philanthropies, the Templeton Foundation supports efforts to advance human well-being through rigorous scien tific research and field-leading scholarship across the sciences, theology, and philoso phy.The “Cura Psychologia” project aims to transform the way that psychologi cal science is conceptualized, taught, and practiced at Boston College and five other Jesuit universities: Fordham, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Loyola Marymount (Los An geles), and Seattle. Helmed by Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and External Relations David M. Goodman, the threeyear program seeks to enrich the connec tions between the respective psychology, philosophy, and theology departments at each of the campuses.
First Year Academic Convocation is orga nized by the Office of First Year Experience, part of the Division of University Mission
Read more about Hauck’s book at community/alumni/home-made.htmlwww.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/campus-https://—KathleenSullivan
great opportunity to put myself out there,” and to do something that would help her academically.“Ihadnever done anything like this before,” said Potter, who hopes to become a physician. “My favorite class was theater and learning about Shakespeare. I never knew how much I liked it. Plus, I liked meeting new people from the program.”
The Academy builds on the respective Boston College and Pine Manor College
Both Galivanez and Potter plan to con tinue with the program.
or for professional careers. Students will have full access to BC’s campus programs and facilities, and successful students may be eligible to apply to transfer to any of the Boston College undergraduate schools to complete their bachelor’s degrees.
“The Pine Manor Institute’s programs seek to strengthen each student’s academic abili ties and prepare them for success in their post-secondary education and beyond.”
to partner schools in Greater Boston this past winter, and principals, teachers, coun selors, and community leaders were en couraged to nominate students, whose pro gram acceptance was announced in April.
For the second year in a row, Boston College’s finance program—administered through the Carroll School of Manage ment—has placed seventh in the recently released Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the ShanghaiPublishedRanking.annually by Shanghai Rank ing Consultancy, ARWU is regarded as one of the most influential and widely observed university rankings, along with the QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rank ings, among others. The publication cur rently includes global league tables for in stitutions as a whole and for a selection of
versity (20th), University of North Caroli na-Chapel Hill (22nd), and University of California-Los Angeles (27th).
is consistently ranked among the top 15 in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
The Pine Manor Institute was estab lished in 2020 when Boston College and Pine Manor College signed an integration agreement that included a $50-million commitment from the University that has grown to $100 million through investment returns and a $25-million anonymous gift.
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The second-most popular undergradu ate major at BC—with 1,203 students en rolled in 2021-2022—the finance program
“I really enjoyed my science and English classes, and living in the dorm.”
The institute also serves as an umbrella organization for BC’s existing programs, including Learning to Learn, the Mont serrat Coalition, and Options Through Education. The final component is the ongoing outreach initiative for alumni of the Academy and Messina College, featur
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According to its website, ARWU’s rank ings use “a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects,” including research output, research influence, international collaboration, research quality, and inter national academic awards. BC’s finance program score of 96.1 in research influence was one of the highest marks in the top 20.
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“I had never done anything like this before,” said Academy par ticipant Gabriella Potter. “My favorite class was theater and learning about Shakespeare. I never knew how much I liked it.”
“The Academy is an opportunity that not that many students get,” said Revere’s Gabriel Galivanez, an incoming eighthgrader at BC High who was nominated by his guidance counselor for the program.
The son of immigrants and a first-gener ation college student whose scholarship has focused on immigration and urban sociol ogy, Fr. Berrelleza will assume his post this month [see page 3].
“We didn’t have opportunities like this when I was growing up,” said Nelisette Rodriguez, Gabriella’s mother. “I’m super proud of her, and extremely grateful, par ticularly for the long-term mentorship as she proceeds through high school and col lege. She’s looking forward to going back.”
The Finance Department’s success in both teaching- and research-oriented rankings during recent years is the result of its nearly decadelong focus on faculty excellence, through hiring efforts, extended mentoring, and research funding—an ef fort that could not be achieved without the support of the University’s top leader ship and the generosity of its friends,” said Haub Family Professor Ronnie Sadka, the department chair.
BC Finance Program Places Seventh in Global Ranking
individual subjects such as finance, political science, communication, mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineer ing, biological sciences, and agricultural sciences.TheUniversity of Pennsylvania topped the finance rankings, followed by the Uni versity of Chicago, New York University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Stanford University, and BC. Round ing out the top 10 were the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Toronto. Other high-ranking institutions included Duke University (12th), London Business School (15th), Northwestern Uni
The PMI initiative took another im portant step forward recently, when the University announced the appointment of Erick Berrelleza, S.J., an assistant profes sor of sociology at Santa Clara University, as founding dean of Messina College. A two-year division of Boston College, Mes sina College will offer an associate’s degree program for 100 students beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year. The goal of the college—named for the first Jesuit school, founded in Sicily in 1548, and located on the former Pine Manor College campus in Brookline (now known as the Brookline Campus of Boston College)—is to prepare students, in a small setting, for continued studies toward a bachelor’s degree program
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Students at the Academy attended classes in STEM and language arts, and engaged in small-group reflection and journaling.
legacies of providing academic support and personal attention to first-generation students from underrepresented and un derserved communities. Beginning in the summer after seventh grade and continu ing through grade 12, the one- to six-week program combines academic preparation in English, mathematics, and science with overnight adventures, field trips, and vol unteerThroughoutexperiences. theschool year, each Academy student’s BC Success Coach will provide tutoring and mentoring to help them achieve success in middle school and prepare for high school. As they head to college or other post-secondary institutions and begin their careers, PMI will continue to provide coaching and mentoring for up to two years, a distinguishing characteristic that’s unlike any other enrichment pro gram. Recruitment materials were distributed
ing year-round mentoring and coaching. Combined, these four pillars expand upon Boston College’s success in educating under-resourced, first-generation college students, while continuing Pine Manor College’s legacy of outreach to underserved communities.“Theresearch is clear that young people do better in school and gain greater self-es teem when they have mentors who provide support and encouragement,” said Moore.
“We found that different people with ASD can have different brain areas affected, and thanks to the AI-simulated brains, we were able to identify which specific brain regions vary among ASD individuals,” said Aidas Aglinskas, a BC post-doctoral researcher and co-author of the report. “In addition, separating ASD-related variation in brain anatomy from unrelated variation revealed hidden relationships between in dividual differences in brain anatomy and symptoms.”Autismdiffers—both in symptoms and neuroanatomy—from one individual to another. Prior research has hypothesized that there might not be a single set of neuroana tomical correlates common to all individuals withConfirmingASD. those suggestions has been
BC Team Uses Artificial Intelligence to Study Autism
The team set out to determine whether
“Two brains can be shaped very similarly but still work differently,” says Stefano Anzellotti, one of the BC researchers studying neuro anatomy and its relationship to Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Kenneth Burch
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The team instead used computer-detect ed patterns to create a simulation of what each ASD individual’s brain would look like if they did not have ASD. This was enabled by a novel AI technique, which separates individual differences in brain anatomy into ASD-specific and ASD-unrelated fea
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tures, the team reported.
Theories that predicted the existence of such a mode have been invoked to explain “dark matter,” the nearly invisible material that makes up much of the universe, but only reveals itself via gravity, Burch said.
The fundamental theory of this wave mimics components of the standard model of particle physics, he added. However, in this case, the charge density wave is quite spe cial, it emerges far above room temperature and involves modulation of both the charge density and the atomic orbits. This allows for the Higgs Boson associated with this charge density wave to have additional components, namely it could be axial, meaning it contains angular momentum.
Burch said it was crucial to draw on the broad range of expertise among researchers from BC, Harvard University, Princeton Uni versity, the University of Massachusetts, Am herst, Yale University, University of Washing ton, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
theory that produces the axial Higgs mode, Burch said. But the central challenge in find ing Higgs particles in general is their weak coupling to experimental probes, such as beams of light, he said. Similarly, revealing the subtle quantum properties of particles usually requires rather complex experimental setups including enormous magnets and high-powered lasers, while cooling samples to extremely cold temperatures.
difficult because identifying ASD-specific neural alterations is a challenging task, Aglinskas said. Brains are different due to many factors, including genetic variation not due to ASD, which is hard to control for in a research study.
With MRI data from 1,103 study partic ipants, the team used an analytical method loosely similar to “deep fakes”—hard-todetect simulated photographs, videos, and other images created by using visual data patterns involving the study participants, ac cording to the report.
“It’s not every day you find a new particle sitting on your tabletop,” Burch said.
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Burch added that the seemingly accessible and straightforward experimental techniques deployed by the team can be applied to study in other areas.
ASD-specific features of brain anatomy vary across individuals in a way that relates to their symptoms. Previous studies investigat ing individual differences in brain anatomy within ASD did not separate ASD-specific features from other, unrelated individual dif ferences in neuroanatomy making it difficult to study relationships between neuroanato my and symptoms, Aglinskas said.
In addition to Burch, Boston College co-authors on the report included Grant McNamara ’23, recent doctoral graduate Yip ing Wang, and post-doctoral researcher Md Mofazzel Hosen. Wang won the Best Dis sertation in Magnetism from the American Physical Society, in part for her work on the project, Burch said.
“ASD-related differences in brain anat omy can ‘hide’ among differences that are not related to ASD,” Aglinskas said. “As a consequence, it has been difficult to identify differences in brain anatomy that are related to differences in symptoms. We used AI to tease apart ASD-related differences from un related differences.”
density wave,” namely a state where electrons self-organize with a density that is periodic in space, Burch said.
In order to reveal the subtle nature of this mode, Burch explained that the team used light scattering, where a laser is shined on the material and can change color as well as polarization. The change in color results from the light creating the Higgs Boson in the ma terial, while the polarization is sensitive to the symmetry components of the particle.
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Differences in behavior among people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, are closely related to differences in neuro anatomy—the shape of a brain—a team of Boston College neuroscientists reported in a recent issue of the journal Science. This discovery could help to understand the causes of ASD, and to develop personalized interventions.Theteamused artificial intelligence to study magnetic resonance imaging data from over 1,000 individuals with ASD and compared those images to AI-generated simulations of what the brains would look like if they did not have ASD.
An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new par ticle—or previously undetectable quantum excitation—known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the mass-defining Higgs Boson particle, the team reported in the online edition of the journal Nature
Whereas Higgs Boson was revealed by experiments in a massive particle collider, the team focused on RTe3, or rare-earth tritel luride, a well-studied quantum material that can be examined at room temperature in a “tabletop” experimental format.
“We were surprised to find that, despite observing a large amount of variation in brain anatomy between ASD individuals along multiple dimensions, individuals did not group into distinct, categorical subtypes as previously thought,” said Aglinskas. “At the level of brain anatomy, individual differ ences within ASD might be better captured by continuous dimensions than by categori cal subtypes, but importantly this does not rule out the possibility that categorical subtypes might be found with other kinds of brain measurements, like functional im aging.”Moving
forward, the researchers point to a need to understand in more detail how these neuroanatomical differences affect behavior.Anzellotti said the team plans to use the AI tools to look beyond just the brain structure for ways to better understand ASD diagnoses and the behavior of individuals with“TwoASD.brains can be shaped very simi larly but still work differently,” Anzellotti said. “There are a number of other aspects of the brain we will need to look at to get a full picture. Right now, we are focused on functional connectivity—a measure of how the brain is ‘wired’. A big question is whether that will show us something new about individual differences within ASD. The goal of this type of work is to be able to use brain imaging data to aid in developing personalized healthcare approaches for those with ASD.”
covery of the first axial Higgs mode,” Burch said. “The detection of the axial Higgs was predicted in high-energy particle physics to explain dark matter,” Burch said. “However, it has never been observed. Its appearance in a condensed matter system was completely surprising and heralds the discovery of a new broken symmetry state that had not been predicted. Unlike the extreme conditions typically required to observe new particles, this was done at room temperature in a table top experiment where we achieve quantum control of the mode by just changing the po larization of light.”
The team reports that it overcame these challenges through the unique use of the scat tering of light and proper choice of quantum simulator, essentially a material mimick ing the desired properties for study.
“As such, we were able to reveal the hid den magnetic component and prove the dis
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The team pushed past that barrier by employing AI to identify patterns of neural variability that are ASD-specific, which then allowed the team to identify neural pathways specifically affected in ASD, said Aglinskas, who conducted the research with Assistant Professors of Neuroscience Joshua Hartshorne and Stefano Anzellotti.
RTe3 has properties that mimic the
The detection a decade ago of the longsought Higgs Boson became central to the understanding of mass. Unlike its parent, axial Higgs mode has a magnetic moment, and that requires a more complex form of the theory to explain its properties, said Professor of Physics Kenneth Burch, a lead co-author of the report “Axial Higgs Mode Detected by Quantum Pathway Interference in RTe3.”
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Specifically, the researchers focused on a compound long known to possess a “charge
In addition, through proper choice of the incident and outgoing polarization, the particle could be created with different com ponents – such as one absent magnetism, or a component pointing up. Exploiting a fun damental aspect of quantum mechanics, they used the fact that for one configuration, these components cancel. However, for a different configuration they add.
Students in the Class of 2026—including Habibatou Sarr (bottom left)—moved into their residence halls on August 25, with the assistance of BC Welcome Wagon volunteers, among them seniors Grant McNamara and Megan Willshire (bottom right).
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James Smith, co-editor of REDRESS
REDRESS, which was published earlier this year in Ireland say the matter is far from settled: How will Ireland redress this legacy of abuse? What constitutes justice?
—Sean Smith
The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature talks by the book’s editors: Associate Professor of English and Irish Studies James Smith, director of the Lowell Humanities Series; Katherine O’Donnell, a professor of philosophy at University College Dublin; and Maeve O’Rourke, a faculty member at the Irish Center for Human Rights. The three have researched and written extensively on the notorious Magdalene Laundries—in which women were confined under dubious cir cumstances and suffered physical and emo tional abuse—and in 2021 were among the co-authors of Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice (UCD Press).Revelations about the Magdalene Laun dries led to wider disclosures of institution
The Center for Irish Programs will cohost the American launch of REDRESS: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice, a book of essays based on a 2018 Boston College conference examining the contro versy over the Magdalene Laundries and other institutional abuses in Ireland (both North and South), this Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in the John J. Burns Library.
REDRESS invites us to imagine what true justice might look like if the experi ences and expertise of survivors and fam ily members were allowed to lead us to more democratic outcomes,” said Smith. “Drawing upon the principles of transi tional justice—the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a so ciety’s attempts to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past abuses—the book asks how we might assist survivors and the public to evaluate the state’s re sponses to our histories of institutional abuse and forced family separation.”
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“The institute is committed to bringing young and senior researchers together in friendship and respect,” said Ricci Institute Director and Provost’s Fellow M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. “We are helping them to create a network of fellow scholars and friends; there is nothing greater than that in Jesuit scholarship.”
from East Asia, to do research on subjects including music in Christianity, ChineseChristian art history, and early Chinese translations of Biblical texts.
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History staff and fellows, photographed outside the institute this past summer.
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—Sean Smith
These and related issues were the subject of a November 2018 conference with multiple sponsors, including the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Irish Stud ies Program, MCAS, and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Among the highlights was a keynote ad dress by then-Irish Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone, Ph.D. ’86, who oversaw an investigation of institutional care of unmarried moth ers and their babies from 1922-1998, prompted by the discovery of a mass
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Eleven Ricci Fellows, representing Italy, Spain, China, and Korea, among other countries, spent the summer working at the institute’s headquarters at 2125 Com monwealth Avenue on the Brighton Cam pus. The scholars—who stayed together in University housing—made use of the institute’s vast holdings, including rare books, manuscripts, and unique artwork
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The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History welcomed its latest co hort of doctoral and post-doctoral fellows this summer—the first to come to the internationally renowned research center for the study of Chinese-Western cultural exchange since its move earlier this year to Boston College from its original home at the University of San Francisco.
Also sponsoring the September 6 launch is the BC Center for Human Rights and International Justice.
grave of child and infant remains on the site of a former mother and baby home.
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Building on the themes of the confer ence, Smith, O’Donnell, O’Rourke, and other contributors to REDRESS examine the structures which perpetuated wide spread and systematic abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue to exert power over survivors, adopted people, and generations of rela tives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialization of the dead.
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“There is a body of opinion that sug gests it’s time to move on—that with the investigations, reports, compensation agreements, etc., the subject has been covered. In fact, there are many reasons to be dissatisfied with the results: For example, the investigations have largely been conducted in private, without using human rights law as a framework of anal ysis or as a guide to ensure procedural fairness—and their archives are inacces sible to survivors, family members, even the“Wepolice.hope that the essays will initiate a critical conversation, and ensure survi vors’ voices are heard.”
al abuses by the government: mother and baby homes, county homes and workhous es, industrial and reformatory schools, and a closed, secretive adoption system. While government officials and representatives have issued apologies, initiated investiga tions, and discussed or agreed to compen sation for survivors or their families, Smith and his co-editors—who wrote the intro duction and each contributed an essay to
For more on the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, see bc.edu/ricci.
Book Launch Explores Justice for Institutional Abuses
Gallup left the University to be the head football coach at Northeastern from 1990-1999—he also was the athletic director for three of those years—before returning in 2000 as director of football operations. In 2013, he was named senior associate athletic director for football and alumni relations, in which capacity he sought to connect Eagles football alumni from all eras of the program.
In addition to books, the CMA bestows awards in other media, including newspa pers and magazines. STM Associate Profes sor Hosffman Ospino received first-place honors in the Best Regular Column: Gen eral Commentary in the Spanish-Language Division for his “Caminando juntos/Jour neying Together” column distributed by Catholic News Service. His column brings to readers “clear-eyed, sophisticated and well-documented insights into issues that are relevant and complex.”
Tutor, Learning Resources for Student PhysicalAthletes
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow (multiple positions)
Research Infrastructure Financial Ana Facilitylyst Security Officer
Prof. Susan Bruce (LSOEHD), who has been honored by the Division on Visual Impairments and Deafblindness of the Council for Exceptional Children, was among those interviewed by WebMD News debunking a TikTok meme that sug gests Helen Keller was a fraud.
Why is it so hard for employers to fill posi tions? Prof. Christine O’Brien (CSOM) weighed in on the labor market in a Wal letHub Q&A.
In a Q&A for America magazine, Seth Meehan, associate director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, interviewed the author of The Jesuits: A History, a “sweeping and engaging account of nearly five centuries of labor by members of the Society of Jesus.”
Established in 1911, the Catholic Media Association is an organization of Catholic media and communications professionals. The awards were announced at the orga nization’s annual media conference held in July in Portland, Ore.
Boston College Faculty Honored by Catholic Media Association
The following are among the recent posi tions posted by the Department of Hu man Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/jobs.
Senior Associate Director, Annual and Leadership Giving
SpecialCenter Education Teacher
Associate Director, Housing Operations Staff/Editorial Assistant, Law School
Part-time faculty member Brian Bethune (Economics) offered analysis on factors affecting the United States inflation rate for the Wall Street, Boston Globe, and USA Today, among others.
Faculty members from the School of Theology and Ministry and History and Theology departments were recently honored for their publications by Catho lic Media Association. The CMA’s book awards “recognize the outstanding work of publishers, authors, and book editors that support the faith-filled life of Catholic readers.”
Senior Environmental Officer
In a segment for Boston 25 News, Kevin Powers, director of the Woods College M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy and Gover nance program, offered advice for protect ing devices and information during vaca Asst.tions.Prof. Raquel Muñiz (LSOEHD) commented on the findings of a new study
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from the Student Experience Project— which connects student belonging with academic wellness—for Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Professor of Political Science Robert Ross (Political Science) was among foreign poli cy experts offering comments to The Boston Globe on the potential impact of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on U.S.-China relations.
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The Swampscott native played as a tight end for the Eagles football team from 1966-1969 under head coach Joe Yukica, and two years on the basketball team coached by Bob Cousy that advanced to the Elite Eight in the 1967 NCAA Tourna ment. After two years as the head coach of the BC freshman football team, Gallup was the defensive line coach on the var sity squad from 1972-1980, then spent 10 years as the recruit ing coordinator and coach of the wide receivers, tight ends, and kickers for head coach Jack Bicknell.
Head Librarian, Educational Resource
Inflation is one reason why some work ers may retire later—if at all—noted Asst. Prof. Cal Halvorsen (BCSSW) in an inter view with Yahoo Money.
Augustine and Tradition: Influences, Con texts, Legacy, co-edited by Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology David G. Hunter, won a first-place award in the category of history of theology, Church fathers and mothers. The volume is a resource that examines and evaluates Augustine’s place in religious and cultural heritage.
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Prof. Juliet Schor (Sociology), research leader for the ongoing 4 Day Week Global trial, was interviewed by NPR “Morn ing Edition,” WBUR “Here and Now,” WBUR Radio Boston, CBS Boston, and Fortune. Assoc. Prof. Wen Fan (Sociology), a project researcher, spoke about the trial for Knowable magazine, and on hybrid work for NBC Boston.
—Kathleen Sullivan
In recognition of his service, the renovated 4,000-square-foot sports medicine center for Boston College football was recently named the Barry Gallup ’69 Sports Medicine Center.“Barry Gallup has dedicated most of his professional life to Boston College and the BC football program, and he has left a significant and lasting impact on both our school and our team,” said Gregory P. Barber ’69 and Family Head Coach Jeff Hafley. “We wish Barry, his wife Victoria, and his family all the best in a truly well-deserved retirement.”
—Boston College Athletics
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In the wake of the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Assoc. Prof. of the Practice Jeffrey Cohen (Law) spoke with Reuters about the charges that could ensue for removal of White House records.
Gallup Retires After 46 Years with Boston College Athletics
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Boston Globe reporter Janelle Nanos ’02, a faculty member in BC’s interdisciplinary minor in journalism program, authored “Kate Price remembers something terrible,” the cover story in a recent edition of Boston Globe Magazine
The Structures of Virtue and Vice, written by STM Associate Professor Daniel Daly, received a first-place award in the category of theological and philosophical studies. Daly, an ethicist, uses the lens of virtue and vice to reimagine from the ground up a Catholic ethics that can better scrutinize the social forces that both affect moral character and contribute to human wellbeing or human suffering.
What Makes Education Catholic, writ ten by STM Professor Thomas Groome, received a first-place award in the faith for mation category. In the book, Groome, an expert in religious education, explores the basis of Catholic education, from the his torical Jesus to Augustine, Aquinas, Seton, and Ward, and shows how they ground and shape the spirituality of Catholic edu cators today.
Also honored was Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Im passe, co-edited by Professor of Theology Emerita M. Shawn Copeland. It received a second-place award in the category of morality, ethics, Christology, Mariology, and redemption. This collection of essays sets out to introduce the work of Carmelite theologian Constance FitzGerald, O.C.D., to a wider and more diverse audience.
Nazis of Copley Square, written by As sociate Professor of History Charles Galla gher, S.J., received a second-place award in the history category. Fr. Gallagher recounts the forgotten history of American terror ists who, in the name of God, conspired to overthrow the government and formed an alliance with Hitler.
Praised for his ‘significant and lasting impact’ on Eagles football
In a follow-up to their recent study of air pollution’s effects in the state, Global Observatory on Planetary Health Director Philip Landrigan, M.D., and a study coauthor wrote on the findings and proposed solutions in an op-ed for The Boston Globe Earlier, Landrigan discussed the report on WGBH News, WGBH “Greater Boston,” WAMC (Albany, NY), and Connecticut Public Radio; Axios Boston ran a feature on the report’s findings.
Barry Gallup ’69, a mainstay of Boston College Athletics as a player, coach, and ad ministrator, recently retired from the University.
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AdministrativeTherapistAssistant, Office of Cam pus AssistantMinistryDirector, Volunteer & Service Learning Center
Senior Associate Athletic Director
Senior Financial Analyst, Endowment
The Boston Globe ran a feature on econom ics major Andrew Caden ’24 ahead of his participation in the All-Ireland Fleadh, a competition that draws many of the best Irish musicians in the world.
Two for the Fall
“The McMullen Museum is pleased to present this retrospective of Arnie Jarmak’s photographs, chronicling the culture of the city of Chelsea for its local newspa per,” Netzer said. “Jarmak’s oral history recorded for this project and displays from his archives and of his cameras enhance the exhibition’s historical significance. The exhibition also celebrates the ongoing work of Boston College faculty and students on the digital history project, Global Boston, documenting the area’s immigrant commu nities since 1870.”
The exhibitions will be on display from September 6 through December 4.
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Among the last film photographers before the digital age, Jarmak used a Dear dorff 8 × 10-inch field camera and a Nikon
A pair of innovative exhibitions will kick off the McMullen Museum of Art 2022-2023 season
More than 120 works by 40 artists, including Peter Bagge, Lynda Barry, Mark Beyer, Robert Crumb, Julie Doucet, Gil bert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Keith Knight, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Fran çoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, among others, comprise “American Alternative Comics,” which features original art, printed comics, and more.“Alternative comics are recognized as a progenitor of today’s graphic novels widely studied in literature courses throughout the academy,” said Inaugural Robert L. and Judith T. Winston Director of the McMul len Museum of Art Nancy Netzer, a BC professor of art history. “Featuring 40 cre ators, ‘American Alternative Comics’ and its accompanying catalogue shift the focus to the significance of the comics’ artistic innovations, which have until now received less attention. The McMullen is grateful to the many lenders who have made this landmark exhibition possible.”
comics as an outsider form through selfdisclosive and often self-critical narratives. A new marketplace and a new generation of publishers and alternative newspapers produced work for a growing readership.
Starting this Tuesday, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College will present two innovative and historically sig nificant exclusive exhibitions, which respec tively explore important periods of change: “American Alternative Comics, 1980–2000: Raw, Weirdo, and Beyond” looks at a transitional time for artistic comics in America, while the retrospective “Arnie Jar mak: Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89” focuses on demographic and social changes in Chelsea, the city north of Boston, witnessed and documented by the accomplished photographer.
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Organized by the McMullen Museum, the exhibition is curated by John McCoy, a McMullen Museum assistant director, and Andrei Molotiu, art history senior lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington. Exhi bition loans were made by artists, private collectors, and The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Major support is provided by the Patrons of the McMullen Museum and Leslie and Peter“PhotographingCiampi.
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F 35 mm camera (both displayed in the ex hibition) to document Chelsea’s notorious ly corrupt politicians, the fires that raged through its aging housing stock and the celebrated firefighters who fought them, long-established businesses of European immigrants (many of them Jewish from Eastern Europe), and the arrivals of immi grants from Central America who enriched the city. Jarmak chronicles these changes in sharply observed portraits of residents, lively vignettes of the city’s youth, and il lustrations of community celebrations—a testament to the central role a local paper played in the life of a vibrant and complex city, according to organizers.
“The opportunity to photograph Chel sea was truly a gift given to me,” said Jarmak. “I am thankful to the people of this city who supported and embraced my work every day at the Chelsea Record.”
According to exhibition co-curator Ash Anderson, a Boston College art history faculty member, “Jarmak slyly draws on the intertwined histories of documentary and fine art photography and his intimate knowledge of Chelsea to create dynamic, insightful compositions that bring to life a chaotic period in the city’s history.”
“Love and Rockets,” by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, color separations from Love and Rockets 5, part of the “American Alternative Comics” exhibition.
The exhibition examines the 1980s and 1990s, a transitional time for artistic com ics, when cartoonists sought to enlarge the medium’s potential for artistry and selfexpression. The influential magazine Raw promoted comics as ambitious, experimen tal art worthy of galleries and bookstores, while the anthology Weirdo celebrated
Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89” showcases the significance of the corpus of work by photographer Arnie Jarmak, and the contribution it makes to understanding how and why local neigh borhoods change. The exhibition presents more than 80 photographs from an archive of some 20,000 he produced as chief pho tographer for the city’s daily newspaper, the Chelsea Record, while living there in the late 1970s through the 1980s.
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Recordings of interviews with Jarmak, by co-curator Diana Larsen, a McMullen Museum assistant director, accompany the exhibition. The curators also edited an e-catalogue that includes a biography of Jarmak by Larsen, an essay by Anderson situating Jarmak’s work within the history of 20th-century photography, including an examination of artistic and literary influ ences, and a study of Chelsea’s immigrant evolution and demographic transforma tions by BC Professor of History Marilynn S. Johnson, Global Boston director.
“First Communion” (above) and “Last House on Third Street” (bottom right), from the exhibition of photos by Arnie Jarmak.
as Maus and Fun Home The New York Times reviews comics and publishes comics features. Scholars work both to chronicle comics’ long history and to describe the medium’s grammar and methods.
“American Alternative Comics” ex plores the unique qualities of comics and the place of the medium in relation to art. Today, comics enjoy wide critical and academic acceptance, organizers note, but this respectability is only a few decades old. Literature classes now teach works such
Organized by the McMullen Museum, “Photographing Chelsea in Transition, 1977–89” received major support from Boston College and the Patrons of the Mc MullenAccompanyingMuseum. events, including walkand-talk sessions with the curators for both exhibitions, are planned for the fall. Go to the McMullen Museum website [bc.edu/ artmuseum] for information and registra tion.BC community members are invited to virtual lectures by curators of both exhibi tions on September 14, at 5:30 pm. RSVP to bit.ly/mcmullen-virtual-lecture-sept14.