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Romero Scholar
College of Arts and Sciences junior Jessica Vallejo has been awarded the University's 2013 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship. BC News Release
New Student Affairs VP
Boston College has named Barbara Jones, vice president of the division of student affairs at Miami University of Ohio, as its new vice president for student affairs, effective July 1. BC News Release
phyre catches BCVC prize
phyre, a tech start-up developed by three BC seniors, took the top prize at the 2013 Boston College Venture Competition. More
2013 Truman Scholar
College of Arts and Sciences junior Narintohn Luangrath—whose family’s experiences as immigrants inspired her interest in migration and asylum policy issues—has won a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, which recognizes undergraduates who demonstrate leadership potential and the capacity to 'make a difference.' BC News Release
Goldwater Scholarship Winner
College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Maria Asdourian, a biology major who conducts Alzheimer’s disease research in the lab of Professor Dan Kirschner, has been awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award in the sciences. BC News Release
U.S. Fulbright Specialist
Political Science Professor David Deese has been appointed to the United States Fulbright Program national roster of Fulbright Specialists, which promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions in more than 100 countries. BC News Release
Play's the thing
The importance of play to children’s healthy psychological development and ability to thrive in life is underestimated by parents and educators, according to BC psychologist Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. BC News Release
Critical Language Scholars
Presidential Scholar Andrew Babbitt ’15 and Law School student Benjamin Barkley have been awarded U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarships for intensive foreign language study abroad this summer. BC News Release
BC honored for partnerships with Catholic schools
The Catholic Schools Foundation honored Boston College President William P. Leahy, S.J., and the University’s extensive partnerships with Catholic schools at the foundation’s 23rd annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund gala. BC News Release | Boston.com
Benefactors named to Irish America Hall of Fame
University benefactors Brian P. Burns and Robert M. Devlin have been named to the 2013 Irish America Hall of Fame, which honors the extraordinary achievements of Irish-American leaders. BC News Release
Carroll School 6th in U.S.
The Carroll School of Management undergraduate program placed at 6th in the nation in the annual survey conducted by Bloomberg Business Week. BC News Release
'New Voices'
The Boston College Theatre Department presents 'New Voices 2013,' which showcases original short pieces by BC student playwrights, curated by Associate Professor and Theatre Department Chair Scott T. Cummings. More
Mary McAleese to be Burns Scholar in Irish Studies
Mary McAleese, who as president of Ireland helped bring about an end to 'The Troubles' she had known during her youth in Northern Ireland, will come to Boston College this fall as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, the university has announced. BC News Release | Boston.com, Boston Globe, AP, Boston Irish Reporter, Irish Central, Irish Echo
Community service honors
Boston College has been named to the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a recognition from the highest levels of the federal government of the University’s commitment to service and civic engagement as exemplified in its nominated 2011-12 initiatives: BC Bigs, Appalachia Volunteers and PULSE. BC News Release
Newton College Alumnae Chair
Theology Department Professor Catherine Cornille, an internationally acclaimed scholar in the field of comparative theology, has been named to the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture. BC News Release
Outlook for Boston philanthropy
The recent recession will resonate through the philanthropic sector over the next half-century, but even so, Greater Boston households and estates could give $600 billion to well over $1 trillion to charities between now and 2061, according to a new report by Center on Wealth and Philanthropy researchers John Havens and Paul Schervish, commissioned by the Boston Foundation. Boston Globe, WBUR 'Morning Edition,' Chronicle of Philanthropy | BC News Release
Alumnus nominated for U.S. Energy Secretary
President Barack Obama has nominated alumnus Ernest J. Moniz ’66 to lead the U.S. Department of Energy. Moniz, who earned his bachelor’s degree in physics, is currently the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems at MIT, as well as the director of the MIT Energy Initiative and the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. BC News Release | Boston Globe
New novel by Graver
Set in a fictional summer community on Massachusetts’ Buzzards Bay, The End of the Point, an anticipated new novel by English Professor Elizabeth Graver, traces one family's journey through the second half of the 20th century. BC News Release
Nursing honors
Connell School of Nursing Professor and Associate Dean for Research Barbara Wolfe and Assistant Professor Kelly Stamp will be honored by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses in April. BC News Release
A 'living legend'
Connell School of Nursing Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess, a trailblazer in the study of the impact of trauma and abuse on victims, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Living Legend Award from the New England Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. BC News Release
Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
Connell School of Nursing Dean Susan Gennaro has been named to the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame, which recognizes those whose work has made a significant impact on the profession. BC News Release
Sloan Research Fellows
Mathematics Assistant Professors Joshua E. Greene and David Treumann have been awarded prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships, given to rising stars among the next generation of scientific leaders. BC News Release
Sustainable new catalysts
Vanderslice Millennium Professor of Chemistry Amir Hoveyda and BC colleagues report in the journal Nature their development of sustainable small-molecule catalysts fueled by a single proton. BC News Release | PhysOrg
'Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan'
'Portugal, Jesuits, and Japan: Spiritual Beliefs and Earthly Goods,' a groundbreaking exhibition of rare nanban art influenced by the arrival of European missionaries and merchants to 16th and 17th century Japan, is now on view at BC's McMullen Museum of Art.
"Jack and Jill" at BC
The Boston College Theatre Department continues its 2012-2013 season with its second student-directed workshop production of the year: the contemporary romantic comedy Jack and Jill. More
$2.7M NIH grant
Biology Professor Ken Williams has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million NIH grant to probe potential drug therapies that would limit the role of immunological cells connected to several debilitating illnesses that strike people living with HIV. BC News Release | PhysOrg
$1.9M NIH grant
Biology Associate Research Professor Tricia Burdo has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role of the body’s immune response in a debilitating form of nerve damage suffered by people living with HIV. BC News Release | PhysOrg, News Medical
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
The University's Theatre Department presents the acclaimed comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written by comedian Steve Martin and directed by Boston College senior Shannon DeBari: Bonn Studio, Robsham Theater, Jan. 30 - Feb. 2.
Peace Corps 'Top College'
Boston College ranks 6th on the Peace Corps 2013 Top Colleges list, a measure of the nation's highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities, in the category of medium-sized schools. BC News Release
Moral motivation
Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Psychology Assistant Professor Liane Young reports in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. BC News Release | | PsychCentral, Science Daily, Yahoo! News, Science Codex, Medical Express, NewsTrack India, RedOrbit, National Affairs