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CTSA president
Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard Gaillardetz has assumed presidency of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the world's largest association of its kind. BC News Release
Brown elected to ACT post
Boston College Professor of Theology Stephen F. Brown has been elected to the position of vice president of the Academy of Catholic Theology for 2013-14. He will succeed to the post of president of the academy in 2014-15.
Connell School Kelleher Award
Mimi Pomerleau, president of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, is the 2013 recipient of the Connell School of Nursing’s Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award. Named for the school's first faculty member and former dean, the award recognizes a graduate who is an accomplished nursing leader, an ethically aware scientist, and a skilled and inquisitive clinician. BC News Release
Gilman International Scholars
Five Boston College students, rising juniors and seniors, will participate in study-abroad programs this summer and fall — traveling to such destinations as Europe, Africa and Latin America — through prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. A sixth student was awarded, but declined, a scholarship. BC News Release
Art of the book
Four BC students' work hand-decorating and sewing book covers under the direction of Burns Library staff is on view in an online exhibit sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, a first for BC students. BC News Release
Un Diplôme Honorifique
Carroll School of Management Professor of Marketing Arch G. Woodside has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal, at the recommendation of HEC Montréal, its independent affiliated business school and the oldest management school in Canada. BC News Release
'Neighborhood science'
A two-year $200,000 National Science Foundation grant award will allow BC undergraduates to engage in environmental 'neighborhood science' in Boston, using novel technologies to collect and disseminate air quality data in real time, said Lynch School of Education Associate Professor of Education G. Michael Barnett, the grant’s principal investigator. BC News Release
Empathy and moral judgments
Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say 'yes' when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a study co-authored by Psychology Assistant Professor Liane Young. BC News Release | Science Daily, Medical Express, ANI News Service (India), Science Blog
Distinguished Career Award
Sociology Professor Paul Schervish, director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, will be honored with the 2013 Distinguished Career Award presented by the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association. BC News Release
Royal Society Fellow
Chemistry Professor Udayan Mohanty, whose research spans the fields of physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysics, has been named a fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry for his outstanding career accomplishments. BC News Release
BC named 2013 state champion in energy efficiency
The University has received a strong endorsement for its ongoing campaign to trim energy use on campus from Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, which will recognize Boston College as a Northeast Business Leader for Energy Efficiency, and Massachusetts Business Leader State Champion, at the organization's summit gathering in June. BC News Release
BC joins Semester Online
Boston College has joined six other leading teaching and research universities in forming Semester Online, the first education consortium to offer for-credit online courses to academically qualified undergraduate students. BC News Release | Boston.com
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