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Across the disciplines

BC faculty and students team up for a project team up for a project targeting infant malnutrition.
View from inside 245 Beacon Street

Interdisciplinary researchers tend to be more collaborative, curious, and intellectually humble
Jier Huang

Harvesting energy from CO2

BC scientist Jier Huang works toward launch of a sunlight-powered catalyst.
Hanqin Tian

Hanqin Tian to lead new Schiller Institute center

Tian will direct the Center for Earth Systems Science and Global Sustainability
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Dispatches from Dubai

Faculty and students attending the COP28 U.N. Climate Change Conference briefed the BC community live online
Conevery Bolton Valencius

Shaky ground

Historian Conevery Bolton Valencius explores the impact of human-caused earthquakes.
Summer Hawkins

Associate director named for BC Global Public Health program

BCSSW's Summer Sherburne Hawkins assumes the inaugural role.
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A climate for opportunity

BC undergrads consider careers related to climate change.
245 Beacon Street, home of the Schiller Institute

A Wide Search for New Core Faculty Begins—With A Focus on Health

The Schiller Institute is looking for three new people to join its team. Two will be scientists who study the effects of the changing climate on health. The third will be a social scientist.
Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D.

Schiller’s New Senior Research Fellow Studies How Organizations Can Be More Collaborative and Community-Oriented

Schiller welcomes its new Senior Research Fellow, Javiera Garcia-Meneses, Ph.D. As a specialist in psychology and social transformations, she’ll examine how interdisciplinary centers are structured and managed, and how to boost collaboration across departments.
Outside of the Service Building, which houses the Schiller Institute Core Faculty’s Collaborative Computational Research Space

New Home for Schiller Institute Core Faculty’s Collaborative Computational Research

BC’s Service building has undergone significant renovations, including a state-of-the-art computational research facility designed to foster collaboration.
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Schiller-led Committee Helps Shape Future of Data Science Education at BC

Proposals for a Boston College master’s degree and a minor concentration in Data Science were refined by an interdisciplinary committee of educators, led by the Schiller Institute.
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Plastic pollution

BC hosts panel discussion on UN plastics treaty.

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