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Campus Digest
Happenings from around Boston College
Fall 2019
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Introducing the Class of 2023, the most talented and diverse in BC history. The class of 2,297 is 53 percent female, has a record 36 percent AHANA enrollment, and includes students from forty-five states and forty-one countries. The average SAT score was 1412 and the average ACT score was 32. More than 80 percent of the freshmen finished in the top 10 percent of their high school class.
Joshua Elbaz ’19, one of ten students in the Class of 2019 to receive a Fulbright Scholarship, will travel to Tbilisi, Georgia, to study the susceptibility to hepatitis C of refugees who’ve been displaced by conflict.
African and African Diaspora Studies launched this fall as a new major in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Long an undergraduate minor, the program explores the history, culture, and politics of Africans on the continent and African-descended peoples in the U.S., the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. “The AADS program of study brings together all of the ‘isms’—racism, sexism, classism, extremism—and demonstrates how they work as an interlocking system operating at the interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels,” said C. Shawn McGuffey, the program’s director and an associate professor of sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies.
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will add to its under-graduate and graduate programs in 2020 when it welcomes its first PhD students. What kind of program culture will they be joining? Department chair Ethan Baxter puts it this way: “Fostering and feeding that innate sense of wonder about the beautiful and awesome planet we call our home, a sense of wonder that exists somewhere within all conscious human beings, is where our department finds its strength.”
Matthias Waegele, assistant professor of chemistry, received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in October. The award provides $675,000 to help fund five years of Waegele’s research into potential routes to cleaner energy sources.
Bob Cousy, the 91-year-old Celtics legend who coached the BC men’s basketball team from 1963 to 1969, was presented with a Presidential Medal of Freedom in August.
Alexis Anderson, Law School associate clinical professor emerita, passed away in September. A renowned legal scholar, Anderson spent thirty-six years at the Law School. “It is impossible to overstate the impact that Alexis had on generations of BC Law students, as well as on faculty, staff, and members of the local community,” BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau said. “She had a brilliant legal mind, but perhaps her greatest gift was her ability to see the human side of the law.”
William F. Connell School of Nursing faculty members Susan DeSanto-Madeya, Holly Fontenot, and Susan Kelly-Weeder are being inducted into the American Academy of Nursing. They are among the 2019 class of AAN fellows, selected because of their work to increase access, reduce cost, and improve quality through nursing theory, practice, and science.
BC has been named one of the nation’s prettiest campuses. TheTravel.com ranked BC seventh nationally, and tops in New England.
Law School student Risa Kuroda ’21 was one of eight students from across the country to receive a Diversity Scholarship award. The scholarship, typically $40,000, aims to promote diversity in the legal profession by supporting promising law students from underrepresented groups.
