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2022–2023 GIVING FOR BOSTON COLLEGE:

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“At BC, I’m able to take all my gifts and talents to start making the world a better place.”

—Lubens Benjamin ’23

SCHOLARSHIP IN ACTION

Overcoming adversity

Jennifer Castro ’26 receives the annual BC Strong Scholarship

 

Each year, the BC Strong Scholarship celebrates a student with a physical disability who has overcome adversity. Jennifer Castro ’26, a marketing major in the Carroll School of Management who was born without a left arm below the elbow, is its most recent recipient.

Director of Undergraduate Admission Grant Gosselin, who selected Castro for the scholarship, says she epitomizes the spirit of “BC Strong.”

“Jen is an individual who is incredibly talented both academically and athletically and who fits everything the scholarship is about,” he says. “She shares her gifts and talents with the BC community.”

Castro speaks from the heart about the everyday challenges—from riding a bike to tying her shoes—she faced growing up, due to her disability. And then there was the emotional pain of being viewed as “different.” “As I would walk in my mother’s shadow, I always seemed to pass the little boy or girl who would tug on their own mother and say in a loud whisper, ‘Mommy, what’s wrong with that girl’s arm?’” she recalls.

Castro ultimately learned to embrace her condition with the help of a loving family and supportive community and became a star athlete in lacrosse and basketball, captaining her high school basketball team at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. In school, she excelled in the classroom and in athletic competition and was a mentor for young kids with disabilities.

“After high school ended, I was afraid that I would never again experience the warmth that the Canterbury community provided me,” Castro admits. “However, at BC, I have been welcomed into one of the best places I could be by a community that is just as warm. I can’t wait for my next chapter to unfold at Boston College.”

SCHOLARSHIP IN ACTION

Overcoming adversity

Jennifer Castro ’26 receives the annual BC Strong Scholarship

 

Each year, the BC Strong Scholarship celebrates a student with a physical disability who has overcome adversity. Jennifer Castro ’26, a marketing major in the Carroll School of Management who was born without a left arm below the elbow, is its most recent recipient.

Director of Undergraduate Admission Grant Gosselin, who selected Castro for the scholarship, says she epitomizes the spirit of “BC Strong.”

“Jen is an individual who is incredibly talented both academically and athletically and who fits everything the scholarship is about,” he says. “She shares her gifts and talents with the BC community.”

Castro speaks from the heart about the everyday challenges—from riding a bike to tying her shoes—she faced growing up, due to her disability. And then there was the emotional pain of being viewed as “different.” “As I would walk in my mother’s shadow, I always seemed to pass the little boy or girl who would tug on their own mother and say in a loud whisper, ‘Mommy, what’s wrong with that girl’s arm?’” she recalls.

Castro ultimately learned to embrace her condition with the help of a loving family and supportive community and became a star athlete in lacrosse and basketball, captaining her high school basketball team at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. In school, she excelled in the classroom and in athletic competition and was a mentor for young kids with disabilities.

“After high school ended, I was afraid that I would never again experience the warmth that the Canterbury community provided me,” Castro admits. “However, at BC, I have been welcomed into one of the best places I could be by a community that is just as warm. I can’t wait for my next chapter to unfold at Boston College.”

Competitive Excellence in Action

ACC Champions!

Eagles Down Tar Heels for First ACC Title

“We had a great season. I’m really proud of the entire coaching staff and all the BC girls and our BC family for helping us get this far.”

—Acacia Walker-Weinstein, Lacrosse head coach

For the first time in program history, Boston College women’s lacrosse secured the ACC championship at American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte in April. It is the first ACC title in women’s program history at BC and the second overall in school history.

The Eagles downed No. 3 seed, North Carolina, 11–9, snapping the Tar Heels’ run of six straight conference championships. 

Boston College scored the final five goals of the game with just under two minutes left in the third quarter.

First-year Shea Dolce was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player after posting 19 saves in three contests. Juniors Belle Smith and Sydney Scales and graduate students Jenn Medjid and Cassidy Weeks were named to the all-tournament team. 

BC and UNC matched up in the ACC championship game for the fourth time in the last five ACC tournaments. The programs also squared off in the 2022 NCAA Championship Game.

FACULTY LEADERSHIP IN ACTION

New dean named for Boston College Law School

Odette Lienau
Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean and Professor of Law

After a nationwide search, Boston College named Odette Lienau, professor of law and former associate dean for faculty research and intellectual life at Cornell University Law School, as the inaugural Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean at BC Law School. A distinguished legal and political scholar and internationally renowned expert on sovereign debt issues, Lienau has centered her research and teaching interests on international economic law, debtor-creditor relations, international politics, and political and legal theory. She has served as a consultant and expert for the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. 

BC Law School Founders Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, who served on the search committee, calls Lienau an “extraordinary scholar, inspirational leader, and imaginative problem-solver with an abiding faith that global and local communities can be improved through thoughtful and respectful intellectual engagement.”

PREMIER ACADEMICS IN ACTION

Nobel Prize-winning economist to join Boston College as the Seidner University Professor

Paul Romer will also lead the new Center for the Economics of Ideas in the Carroll School of Management

“Paul Romer is one of the most respected and accomplished economists in the world. By joining the Carroll School faculty community, he provides an instant injection of large doses of imagination, intellect, and aspiration into every fiber of our culture.”

—Andy Boynton, John and Linda Powers Family Dean of the Carroll School of Management

Nobel laureate Paul M. Romer, one of the most influential economists of this century, will join Boston College as the Seidner University Professor in the Carroll School of Management, beginning this fall.

He will also launch the Carroll School’s new Center for the Economics of Ideas and join the faculty of the finance department, which is consistently ranked among the nation’s best undergraduate finance programs and among the most productive for faculty scholarship.

The Seidner University Professorship was made possible through a gift from BC Trustee Marc Seidner ’88, and the Seidner family.

“I’m very excited about the course that Boston College is setting with the new Center for the Economics of Ideas,” said Romer, who joins BC following 13 years at New York University. “In the pursuit of progress, the market can be the vehicle, but the values of science, scholarship, and enlightenment must be the compass. We’ve got plenty of disruption. What’s missing is direction.”

“We are delighted and proud that Paul is joining our faculty group,” said Ronnie Sadka, chair of the finance department and Haub Family Professor in the Carroll School. “We take great pride in our exceptional teaching and research, while maintaining a positive collegial culture. The addition of Paul demonstrates our ongoing commitment to excellence and will greatly enhance the finance department and the Carroll School as a whole.”

EAGLES IN ACTION

Marathon Monday brought a morning Flo Rida concert to campus

Rapper Flo Rida, headliner of BC’s annual Marathon Monday festivities, snapped a selfie while being simultaneously photographed by a crowd of cheering students. Capturing the entire scene was Charlotte Ward ’25, whose photo was posted by the official Boston College account on Instagram. The mutual appreciation continued, with Flo Rida commenting on Ward’s pic with a series of emojis.

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