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University’s Endowment Reaches $2.4 Billion
INSIDE student veterans 2 •BC looking to network
Boston College’s endowment has reached $2.4 billion, the University announced on Sept. 29. The endowment grew by $205 million, led by double-digit investment gains and targeted contributions from fundraising, according to the University’s 2017 Annual Report. The University’s investment return of 14.9 percent for the year ending June 30 ranked among the highest in American higher education. The Annual Report stated that the endowment portfolio remains well diversified, with 51 percent in domestic and international equities, 8 percent in fixed-income securities, and 41 percent in alternative strategies, including absolute return funds, private equity funds, and real asset funds. Overall, BC’s net assets in fiscal year 2017 grew by $279 million to nearly $3.3 billion, a 9 percent increase over the previous year. –Jack Dunn
•Park Street Series looks at ‘Health of the Planet’ •Photos: University Mass for Puerto Rico
Applebaum to 3 •Anne speak at BC Oct. 23 •BC innovation on display at ACCelerate Festival •Photo: Gabelli Plazas dedicated Perkins is Joseph 4 •Pheme Prof. of Catholic Spirituality •Connell School to host homicide conference grants for BC 5 •Three physicist Zeljkovic
•DeVoy joins LSOE as associate dean College adds to 6 •Woods certificate offerings •City Connects program receives $2.5 million Additions; BC in 7 •Welcome the Media; job listings •McNair Program grant Moritz Ernst to 8 •Pianist present three concertlectures this month
The 25th annual Pops on the Heights Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala – featuring award-winning vocalist Jennifer Hudson (above) – raised a record-breaking total of more than $14 million for the University’s scholarship endowment. Read about the event at http://bit.ly/pops-2017. More photos on page 8. (Photo by Michael Manning)
‘Whole Child’ Education Is Focus of LSOE Events BY PHIL GLOUDEMANS STAFF WRITER
The Lynch School of Education will advance its distinctive focus on “whole child” education and universal student development by convening three groundbreaking conferences for education professionals, scholars and policymakers this fall. “Our distinctive vision of education encompasses the many dimensions of a student’s life,” says Stanton E.F. Wortham, Charles F. Donovan, SJ, Dean at the Lynch School. “Our fall colloquia will provide an opportunity to share that methodology with education leaders nationally.” “Comprehensive Services for Children in Poverty: Setting the Research Agenda for Integrated Student Services” (Oct. 18-20), organized by Kearns Professor of Urban Education and Innovative Leadership Mary E. Walsh, is the first conference to gather national and international leaders from the field of integrated supports for children. Funded by an American Educational Research Association grant, the invitation-only con-
ference will assemble experts in school-based approaches for lifting academic and non-academic barriers to learning. The conference’s goal is to establish new research priorities to advance the field, says Walsh, who is executive director of City Connects, the Lynch School’s research-based student support initiative serving nearly 29,000 students in five states. “Whole Child, Whole Person Summit: Redefining Achievement, Education and Well-being” (Oct. 21-23), the centerpiece of the three conferences, is expected to bring to campus more than 200 teachers, principals, superintendents and practitioners. Led by Lynch School Professors Andrew Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley in partnership with ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), the summit opens with a one-day, invitation-only pre-conference for 40 scholars and policymakers who are experts in the areas of emotional, social, and educational well-being, and wholechild/whole-person development. Continued on page 5
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Anderson Destine with his mother, Judith, following his surgery.
One Boy's Life
A young Haitian receives life-saving surgery thanks to a Connell School of Nursing professor BY KATHLEEN SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER
When Anderson Destine of Haiti and his family celebrated his first birthday this week, a nurse at Boston College marked the occasion, too, knowing she played a vital role in helping him reach that important milestone. Anderson was born last October in Bellevue, Haiti, with a rare skull defect that created a large sac on his face, composed of fluid buildup and herniation of the brain. What began as a small bump on his nose
at birth grew to be nearly the size of his entire face months later. The sac was obscuring his vision and partially blocking his nasal passages, forcing Anderson’s mother Judith to spend nights lifting the sac off of Anderson’s face so he could breathe. Untreated, Anderson’s condition would become fatal. Luckily for Anderson, he would soon encounter BC nurses. Last January, a team of Boston College nursing students, led by Connell School of Nursing CliniContinued on page 4
“Being part of a larger network that includes BC alumni, faculty and staff can, we hope, result in friendships and mentoring opportunities that make a difference in student veterans’ lives.” –BC School of Social Work student Lisa Smith, page 2
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A ROUND A WORLD OF CONCERN “The Health of the Planet” is the focus of this semester’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series in Health, Humanities, and Ethics, which got underway yesterday with a talk by groundbreaking environmental scholar Philip Landrigan ’63, MD. The series continues on Oct. 26 with “Rural Medicine: A South African Perspective” by Sally and Karl le Roux, at 7 p.m. in Devlin 101. Since 2006, this South African medical doctor couple has worked at a small rural facility, Zithulele Hospital, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. With an original team of only four doctors in an area devastated by HIV, the le Rouxs struggled to get through the massive daily patient roster. But they have drawn an ever-increasing number of doctors and allied health care workers to the hospital annually. Today, it is one of the best rural government hospitals in South Africa, with a team of 16 doctors and 20 healthcare workers. In 2016, Sally le Roux became the founding principal of the Zithulele Independent School, now teaching first and second grades in addition to her work in the Zithulele Paediatric HIV clinic. Since 2013, Karl le Roux has run longitudinal studies in the communities around the hospital to examine outcomes of babies born there, and their mothers, over time. This fall, the couple is teaching a policy task force about
Maternal and Child Health in South Africa at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Other Park Street Corporation Series events this fall: •“Food and Climate Change: A Conversation with Michael Pollan,” Nov. 2, 7 p.m., Gasson 100: The author of numerous bestsellers, Pollan has written books and articles for the past 20 years about places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs and architecture. He will be interviewed by Professor of Sociology Juliet Schor. •“Environmental Martyrdom and Defenders of the Forest,” Nov. 16, 7 p.m., Murray Function Room, Yawkey Athletics Center, with Rob Nixon: Nixon, who holds the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professorship in Humanities and Environment at Princeton University, is the author of four books, most recently the awardwinning Dreambirds: the Natural History of a Fantasy and Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. The Park Street Corporation Speaker Series is sponsored by the Park Street Corporation and Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. For more details, see www.bc.edu/offices/park-streetseries. –University Communications
The Boston College Arts Council has issued a call for nominations for its 2018 Alumni and Faculty Arts awards. All University faculty, staff and alumni community members may nominate candidates working in the performing, visual and literary arts; the deadline is Oct. 23. Student Award nominations will be accepted in the spring semester. “The Arts Council has recognized outstanding faculty and alumni in the arts since 1999,” said the group’s chair Crystal Tiala, Theatre Department associate professor and chair. “Please nominate a colleague you know who has made an outstanding contribution in an arts discipline. We would like them to receive the recognition they deserve.” These awardees – who are honored during the annual BC Arts Festival in the spring – serve as role models for aspiring student artists, organizers note. Details on the Arts Awards, including criteria, past recipients and nomination forms for both faculty and alumni, are available at www. bc.edu/offices/artscouncil/awards. For more information, contact Arts Council Program Administrator Sarah McDermott at sarah.mcdermott@bc.edu –University Communications ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Jack Dunn DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Patricia Delaney EDITOR Sean Smith
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C AMPUS PUTTING IT TOGETHER
Following a kick-off event late last month, an effort is under way to coordinate and bolster communication among graduate and undergraduate student US military veterans in the Boston College community. Leading the initiative is BC School of Social Work student Lisa Smith, a Connecticut native who served for four years in the Air Force. Smith sees an opportunity to build on the strengths of the BC Veterans Alumni Network (BCVAN) and the BC Veterans Affinity Group for faculty and staff, so that students who served – or plan to serve – in the military will have access to a broad array of resources and contacts. “A collaboration between student veterans and alumni, faculty, and staff veterans, as well as BC’s ROTC program, would enable a great foundation for our BC Veteran community,” says Smith. “This would create a supportive network for old and new veterans, across generations and even across professions. Knowing there are other people around who are, or have been, in similar situations as you help with the transition to college life.” On Sept. 28, Smith and other members of the new Student Veterans Group held a reception at the Cadigan Alumni Center, with the support of BCVAN, the Veterans Affinity Group and BC ROTC.
The Boston College Student Veterans Group kick-off event in the Cadigan Alumni Center brought together veterans from different parts of the BC community, including Thomas O’Sullivan ’68, left, and Patrick Farrell ’62. (Photo by Frank Curran)
“This was a very encouraging event, and we hope to make it an annual one,” says Smith, who estimated the turnout at around 70 people. “It was a call to action, telling people that we need them to step up, work together, and the message seemed to carry.” Smith says veterans who go directly from the military into college – as is increasingly the case – often face special challenges in adjusting. “Vets tend to move around a lot, so there’s that process of constantly having to reintegrate and find a social network,” she explains. “The other thing is, in the military almost everything is provided to you. But when you enter civilian life as an undergraduate, it can be a struggle to find the information and resources you need, whether it’s getting health insurance or
learning how you’re supposed to prepare for a job interview. “A Student Veterans Group identifies us as a population of students sharing a unique experience of service to our country and makes us a more visible part of the campus community. We know Boston College to be a caring place, so our hope is that this group will make it easier to match student veterans with the resources and services they need. “Being part of a larger network that includes BC alumni, faculty and staff can, we hope, result in friendships and mentoring opportunities that make a difference in student veterans’ lives.” For more information about the BC Student Veterans Group, contact Lisa Smith at smithazp@bc.edu. –Sean Smith Boston College held a Mass in St. Ignatius Church on Oct. 3 for the victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. There will be a collection at the Oct. 27 BC-Florida State football game in support of Puerto Rican relief. For more about BC efforts to help Puerto Rico, see http://bit.ly/ puerto-rico-aid.
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Pulitzer Winner to Speak at McMullen Journalist and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Anne Applebaum will discuss her newest book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, on Oct. 23 at 10:30 a.m. in the McMullen Museum of Art conference center. A Washington Post columnist, Applebaum is a London School of Economics professor of the practice and contributor to the New York Review of Books. Her books include Iron Curtain, winner of the Cundill Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Gulag: A History, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and a finalist for three other major prizes. Her campus appearance – which is free and open to the public – is sponsored by the Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures Department, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and the Heinz Bluhm Memorial Lecture Series. “We’re thrilled to bring Anne Applebaum to Boston College,” said Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer. “Her name is well known on campus, and her works are taught in a number of our courses, including [those] on European history and genocide and crimes against humanity. “A distinguished author and public intellectual, Applebaum has written with passion, lucidity, and intellectual honesty about some of the most shocking events and periods in the history of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union,” he said. “Her Pulitzerwinning book, Gulag: A History, opened the eyes of millions of readers to the death and suffering
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this event, an academic initiative, is meant to celebrate some of what’s happening on our campuses alongside our athletic programs.” –Vice Provost Akua Sarr
ACC Academic Showcase BC to showcase faculty and student innovation at the Smithsonian during the ACCelerate Festival BY ED HAYWARD STAFF WRITER
Anne Applebaum will discuss her new book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine.
of victims of Stalin’s regime.” According to event organizers, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine spans the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917, ends with the Ukrainian famine of 193233, and presents central clues for understanding today’s troubled Ukrainian-Russian relations. “Holodomor, the Great FamUse the challenges in life as fuel to move forward, adventurer Erik Weihenmayer ’91 H’03 – the first blind person to summit Mt. Everest, reach the Seven Summits, and kayak through the Grand Canyon – told Boston College students at a packed Robsham Theater on Sept. 28. “We are all struggling to find out which tools help us become the best version of ourselves,” he said, adding that “finding the light within us” can help to illuminate the murky, dark process of growth. Weihenmayer’s visit to campus opened the 11th season of
ine of 1932-1933, claimed the lives of millions and devastated the rural life in Ukraine. Applebaum draws the world’s attention to one of the lesser known genocides in modern European history,” Shrayer said. For information, contact the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at ext.23910. –University Communications
BC's popular faith story-telling program, Agape Latte, sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center and Campus Ministry. Read more at http://bit.ly/ weihenmayer-agape.
Mario J. Gabelli (center) and a host of students from the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program formally celebrated the opening of Gabelli Plazas on Sept. 28. The plazas – located on the Campanella Way and Beacon Street sides of Conte Forum – are part of a campus beautification project and were supported by a generous gift from the Gabelli Foundation. (Photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert)
Boston College faculty and students will showcase some of the University’s most innovative projects over the next three days in Washington, DC, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History during ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival. The ACCelerate Festival, which begins today, will celebrate creative exploration and research at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design. The event was developed by the Atlantic Coast Conference, partner ACC universities, and the Smithsonian Institution. It is presented by Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “This is an exciting example of collaboration with our Atlantic Coast Conference peers that showcases the kind of innovation happening at our institutions in technology, as well as the arts and sciences,” said Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Akua Sarr, who has coordinated BC’s participation. “Yes, the ACC is our athletic conference, but this event, an academic initiative, is meant to celebrate some of what’s happening on our campuses alongside our athletic programs. All of the BC faculty and students involved are looking forward to showcasing their work at the Smithsonian.” Boston College initiatives featured at ACCelerate are: The Guestbook Project – An online portal that encourages, rewards and publicizes the most innovative narrative models for advancing peace and reconciliation. Team: Associate Professor of Fine Arts Sheila Gallagher and Seelig Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney JoyceStick – a 3-D “gamification” of the novel Ulysses that offers an immersive, virtual reality experience of the James Joyce classic. Team: Professor of the Practice of English Joseph Nugent and BC students BusWays - A mobile app that notifies parents every time their child gets on or off the school bus and allows school systems
to gather live data about their bus fleets. Team: Carroll School of Management sophomore Pedro De Almeida and other BC students In addition, Gallagher and Kearney will perform “Twinsome Minds,” their re-interpretation of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin through a mix of storytelling, animations, music and poetry designed to mine what is often lost behind official historical accounts and acts of commemoration. Visitors to the festival will interact with leading innovators from ACC universities and engage with new interdisciplinary technologies that draw upon art, science, and humanities to address global challenges. Nugent said JoyceStick, which has been demonstrated internationally, is approaching a new phase. With students from the two-year course graduating, he hopes to “open source” the project and engage students from beyond BC to continue to refine the experience. He hopes the festival attracts the attention of students with an interest in virtual reality or Joyce, or both. It’s also an opportunity to showcase the new experiences and skills that await students in the humanities. “It’s very, very exciting for us to participate,” said Nugent. “At time when we see numbers in the humanities dropping, our relevance has to be all the more loudly stated. Students should know that if they take an English degree, for instance, they are learning a variable and adaptable discipline that opens up the world.” De Almeida, whose BusWays app has taken honors in two BC entrepreneurship competitions and won a spot in a start-up incubator, said ACCelerate will be a valuable opportunity to get more feedback about BusWays from parents, educators and the general public. “The team and I are looking forward to presenting to the people who will attend and getting their feedback,” said De Almeida. “It’s always great to get opinions. We are so into this project, that we miss some things. It’s great to have people point things out that you don’t see.” For additional information, see www.acceleratefestival.com.
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Theology Department faculty member Pheme Perkins, an internationally recognized New Testament scholar, has been named the University’s inaugural Joseph Professor of Catholic Spirituality. Perkins’ research and teaching interests are in Pauline epistles, Johannine writings and the Greco-Roman cultural setting of early Christianity. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (1985-86) and currently is chair of its executive board. She is an associate editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. “Professor Perkins is a highly accomplished Biblical scholar whose work on the Gospel of John, the Pauline letters, and the Gnostic tradition is widely acclaimed,” said Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Kalscheur, SJ. “Her prominence as a scholar of the New Testament and her distinguished service in the University and the wider world of Catholic Biblical studies make her a most appropriate selection as the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Spirituality in our Department of Theology.” Established in 2012 through a gift from an anonymous donor, the Joseph Chair in Catholic Spirituality supports a Roman Catholic pro-
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fessor in the Theology Department. “‘How can you be so smart and believe?’ is a question I hear at least once a week,” said Perkins, who has taught at Boston College since 1972. “Jesuit mentors and friends at various times connected with BC made that possible, especially Fr. Francis X. Weiser, SJ, when I was a teenager; Fr. Bernard Lonergan, SJ; Fr. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, SJ, my Harvard thesis director; Fr. George MacRae, SJ, and fellow grad students Fr. Daniel Harrington, SJ, and Fr. Richard Clifford, SJ, of our School of Theology and Ministry.” She is the author of many books, including Gnosticism and the New Testament, The Book of Revelation, First and Second Peter, James and Jude, and the award-winning titles Reading the New Testament and Peter: Apostle for the Whole Church. Her books have been translated into Italian, Japanese, and Korean. —Kathleen Sullivan
Connell School Hosts Forum on Homicide Tomorrow Boston College will host a daylong multidisciplinary conference at Newton Campus tomorrow, Oct. 14, which will bring together experts in the fields of forensics, law enforcement, criminal behavior, and criminal justice to discuss issues related to homicide. The forum is directed by Connell School of Nursing Professor Ann Burgess in collaboration with BC Law School and Northeastern University’s Atypical Homicide Research Group. The keynote speaker will be prominent forensic scientist Henry C. Lee, founder of the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science at the University of New Haven, acclaimed for his work in the OJ Simpson case and his reviews of the John F. Kennedy assassination and the death of JonBenet Ramsey. “At this multidisciplinary forum, students will have the opportunity to hear from investigative, forensic, and psychological experts about current issues regarding homicide as well as about prevention and legal interventions,” said Burgess, a renowned leader in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and
abuse who has worked closely with the FBI Behavioral Science Unit and offered expert testimony in several criminal cases. Burgess will give a presentation on an atypical serial killer. BC Law Associate Clinical Professor Sharon Beckman, director of the Boston College Innocence Program, will participate in a panel discussion with members of the Massachusetts State Police Detective Homicide Unit on “Use of Emerging Technologies in Homicide Investigations.” Other presenters include Jack Levin, co-director of Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern and Kevin Kosiorek of the Boston Police Crime Laboratory. Additional topics include the challenges of cold cases, elder sexual homicide, the MS-13 gang and the fungal meningitis deaths attributed to the New England Compounding Center. To register or to learn more, go to http://bit.ly/bc-forensics-conference. –Kathleen Sullivan
“No matter what happened to Anderson, I wanted that mother to know she had done everything she could.”
Helping Make ‘a Miracle’ Happen
Continued from page 1 cal Assistant Professor Donna Cullinan, conducted their annual community health clinics in Haiti. Every year, Cullinan, along with CSON undergraduates and graduate students and a couple of alumni, spend a week treating thousands of patients from sunrise to sunset in makeshift clinics in Leogane and surrounding areas. Judith brought Anderson to the clinic. Immediately, the CSON-Haiti team knew they had an extraordinary patient. “I didn’t know in the beginning if we would be able to help him,” said Cullinan. “But every mother wants to do the most she can do for her child and that is what drove me. No matter what happened to Anderson, I wanted that mother to know she had done everything she could.” The first step was to arrange for an MRI for Anderson — not a simple task in one of the poorest places on the planet. Back in the US, Cullinan and Anne Zlevor, a family nurse practitioner and BC alumna who was part of the CSON-Haiti team, paid for the MRI from their own funds and contributions from family and friends. Watson Drouillard, a local engineering student who has a longstanding relationship as a translator for the CSON-Haiti team, volunteered to escort Judith and Anderson to Port-au-Prince for the MRI. Once Anderson’s diagnosis was determined, Cullinan and Zlevor knew he would not be able to be treated in Haiti. He would need to come to the United States. Cullinan and Zlevor began reaching out to the medical community and finally connected with Calvin Babcock, chairman of the board of Baptist Hospital of Miami and also CFO of Living Hope Haiti Christian Mission, a nonprofit organization that serves people in northern Haiti. Babcock contacted Vitaly Siomin, MD, a neurosurgeon and medical director of the Brain Tumor Program at Baptist Health Neuroscience Center, who agreed to take the case pro bono.
Cullinan and Zlevor worked with Drouillard to obtain passports and visas for Judith and Anderson and arrange for the flight to Miami. Dr. Siomin and his Baptist Health team removed Anderson’s facial defect in a life-saving sur-
Cullinan’s intervention in Anderson’s case has been described as heartwarming and inspiring, but it is not at all surprising familiar with Cullinan’s connection and dedication to the people of Haiti. Cullinan, who is a BC alumna, has been regularly traveling to
Anderson Destine before (top) and after his operation, which was arranged with the help of Connell School Clinical Asst. Prof. Donna Cullinan (below).
gery on June 26. In July, they installed a shunt, a permanent device to drain fluids from the affected area. Cullinan and Zlevor were in constant contact with the medical team and Judith. According to Cullinan, Anderson will need plastic surgery and follow-up care but should go on to lead a normal life. “He certainly would have died without the surgery,” she said. “I feel like it was a miracle,” she added. “He really touched my heart.” Judith is extremely grateful for all the care her son has received. In an interview with a TV station in Florida, she tearfully recalled how she had been told to abandon her baby. “I am full of joy,” she said. “I always believed my baby would be saved.” Judith and Anderson are now back in Haiti, reunited with Anderson’s father Makeson and big sister Judiemarlie. Cullinan is arranging for Anderson to be seen by a neurologist in Haiti so he can have a baseline established. She looks forward to reuniting with Anderson and the Destine family when the CSON-Haiti group returns in January.
Haiti to provide nursing care since 2002. She often cites Dr. Paul Farmer, a cofounder of Partners in Health known for his humanitarian work in Haiti and other areas, as an inspiration. Said Cullinan, “I always keep in mind Paul Farmer’s quote ‘The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.’” She established the CSONHaiti community health trip in 2011 as a way to expose the next generation of nurses to the situation in Haiti. In addition to the thousands of patients they treat, the CSON-Haiti team visits orphanages in the areas and delivers extensive amounts of supplies. Cullinan strives to build a sustainable health care delivery system in rural Haiti. She and her nursing students have taught and supported students at Faculte Des Sciences Infirmiere, the nursing school in Leogane. Cullinan was honored by Boston College in 2011 with the University’s Community Service Award for her outreach to Haiti. “I really believe we are here for others,” she said. Contact Kathleen Sullivan at kathleen.sullivan@bc.edu
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Three Grants Aid Physicist’s Research Alumna Becomes Lynch BY ED HAYWARD STAFF WRITER
Three research agencies – the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army Research Office – have awarded Assistant Professor of Physics Ilija Zeljkovic early-career grants totaling approximately $1.5 million for his research into a unique class of materials known as topological insulators. The five-year, $650,000 CAREER award from the NSF will support Zeljkovic’s project “Nanoscale Synthesis and Imaging of Novel Topological Phases,” combining two advanced atomicscale techniques to create and characterize new topological materials. The project aims to provide a fundamental advancement in the understanding of topological materials, as well as to craft new materials for their eventual use in technology, such as in spintronics and quantum computing. The education goals of this project utilize Zeljkovic’s expertise in materials growth and microscopy imaging, and are targeted to impact a wide range of students, including middle school, high school, undergraduate and graduate students. “I am extremely grateful to the National Science Foundation and the agency’s support of my lab’s work,” said Zeljkovic, who joined the BC Physics faculty in 2015. “During the past two years, my students have worked very hard to set up a unique combination of growth and characterization experimental facilities in my lab, and obtain preliminary data demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed research. “I have benefitted immensely from the assistance of many of my colleagues here in the department, who provided advice and helped me shape the proposal both in terms of research and outreach activities,” he continued. “I am thankful to my faculty mentor and department chairman Michael J. Naughton, who offered encouragement and provided feedback during this process.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, awarded Zeljkovic a two-year, $500,000 Young Faculty Award for his project “3D Printing of Novel High-Temperature Superconductors.” The research focuses on creating new high-temperature superconductors using molecular beam epitaxy film growth and studying the materials using scanning tun-
neling microscopy and electrical transport. The award will support the addition of state-of-theart synthesis and characterization equipment, as well as two graduate students who will work on the project. “By stacking different two-dimensional materials with distinct properties, our project aims to create new systems with superior superconducting properties
Films.” The aim of the project is to engineer a topological superconductor by creating and optimizing interfaces between topological insulators and “conventional” superconductors. “We’re all very proud of Ilija he is the first faculty member in BC’s history to win three young investigator awards from our federal agencies, and I dare say he’s
Assistant Professor of Physics Ilija Zeljkovic studies topological insulators. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
that a single bulk material cannot achieve”, Zeljkovic said. “We are extremely grateful to DARPA for supporting this project and to Boston College for providing the necessary internal framework to jumpstart the project.” A three-year, $360,000 Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office will support Zeljkovic’s project “Nanoscale Engineering of Superconducting Proximity Effect in Topological Insulator Thin
not done yet,” said Naughton, the Evelyn J. and Robert A. Ferris Professor of Physics. “A great addition to this department and University, Ilija is an engaging teacher pursuing research on the fundamental physics of novel materials that is both careful and daring. Tunneling microscopy demands extreme patience and skill, and Ilija is among the best in the world at his craft.” Contact Ed Hayward at ed.hayward@bc.edu
The University’s annual Healthapalooza event took place Sept. 27 at the Plaza on O’Neill Library, providing the University community an opportunity to learn about various health and safety issues. Above, Blake Harvey ’18 learned how to put out a grill fire. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)
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Julia DeVoy PhD’06, an applied psychologist whose nearly 30-year career has encompassed social impact, social entrepreneur businesses and social justice work on a national and international basis, has been appointed associate dean of undergraduate students at the Lynch School of Education. DeVoy, who earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, an MTS from Harvard University and an MBA from Oxford University in addition to her doctorate in applied developmental and educational psychology from Boston College, has been affiliated with the University since 1998. Since 2000 she has taught undergraduate and graduate psychology and education classes; supervised doctoral-level instructors, master’s degree students, and undergraduates; and served as a mentor for numerous Ronald McNair Program, Community Research Program, and Advanced Study Grant scholars at BC. In 2016, she received the Ever to Excel Reverend John R. Trzaska, SJ, Award, presented to a faculty member who expanded the horizons, skills, and value systems of BC students by providing support and guidance outside of the classroom. While at Oxford, DeVoy was honored for best submission of an action-oriented, problemsolving project geared towards
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addressing the complex issue of fresh water scarcity. She was also awarded the Dean’s Prize for top MBA class GPA. Her research and teaching has concentrated on the relationship of social class variables to the human lifespan, with a focus on social mobility among low-income global citizens that examines personal aspects, as well as ecological contexts – such as family, faith, workplace, community and educational settings – that facilitate or constrain development. She is currently investigating how economically disempowered individuals develop dual class-based psychological identities to transition to elevated economic levels while maintaining healthy emotional well-being and relational support. In the field, she advises on the design of social impact initiatives as interventions for helping address systemic social inequities. –Phil Gloudemans
Lynch School Conferences Continued from page 1 Hargreaves, the Thomas More Brennan Professor in Education, said the pre-conference will shape the agenda for the field’s future research. The main conference will emphasize collaboration and discussion to expand the narrow definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores, and to embrace all spheres of students’ long-term development and success. The colloquia end on Nov. 15-17 with a first-of-its-kind conference and interactive workshop focused on strategies for measuring the impact of undergraduate education – particularly a liberal arts education – on students’ personal growth. Titled “Tracking Development Toward Living a Life of Meaning and Purpose: Addressing the Challenges to Measurement,” and led by Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy Henri Braun, the event will
seek to quantify what he describes as the ultimate outcome for undergraduate college students: a life of meaning and purpose. Funded by the Spencer Foundation, the conference will aim to establish new, interdisciplinary research agendas centered on assessing students across the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and ethical spectrum of “whole person” learning that a liberal arts education develops. According to Braun, developing a body of quantitative research is essential for liberal arts colleges and universities as they face increasing pressure to demonstrate value for cost; research resulting from the conference could help counter the push for a narrow, short-sighted definition of student’s success focused primarily on technical, job-specific skills. Contact Phil Gloudemans at philip.gloudemans@bc.edu
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IES Awards $2.5M Grant to BC’s City Connects
Woods Expands Certificate Offerings
The Institute of Education Sci- elementary schools since 2001. The ences (IES) has awarded a four- program addresses out-of-school year, $2.5- million evaluation grant factors that can affect students’ to City Connects, the award-win- ability to succeed and thrive acaning student support intervention demically. In practice, City Conprogram within the Lynch School nects offers a defined protocol for of Education. a counselor or school social worker The three-part study will be to collaborate with every teacher to conducted in 41 schools in ur- support every student with accomban districts in Massachusetts and panying tools to track the work, Connecticut, encompassing more understand student progress, and than 20,000 K-8 students. demonstrate effectiveness. “From the beginning, we have “City Connects is a national been committed to ongoing re- model for integrating comprehensearch to examine the efficacy of sive in- and out-of-school student our work,” said City Connects support, which exemplifies the Executive Director ‘formative,’ wholeCity Connects Mary E. Walsh, the person approach to Lynch School’s Daneducation we take at provides systematic, iel E. Kearns Profesthe Lynch School,” research-based supsor of Urban Educasaid Stanton E.F. tion and Innovative Wortham, the port to students in Leadership. “We are Charles F. Donograteful to IES for high poverty, urban van, SJ, Dean of the the opportunity to elementary schools. Lynch School. “The analyze student perIES-funded research formance in multiple will significantly ways, and ultimately, to strengthen deepen our understanding of the our case that City Connects plays program’s effectiveness, and create a crucial role in positive outcomes a prototype for replication nationfor students.” ally.” The Institute of Education The Institute of Education Sciences’ overarching priority is Sciences is the independent, nonresearch that contributes to im- partisan statistics, research, and proved academic achievement for evaluation arm of the US Departall students, particularly for those ment of Education. Its mission is whose education prospects are to provide scientific evidence on hindered by inadequate education which to ground education pracservices and conditions associated tice and policy and to share this with poverty, race/ethnicity, lim- information in formats that are ited English proficiency, disability, useful and accessible to educators, and family circumstance. parents, policymakers, researchers, City Connects has provided and the public. systematic, research-based support —University Communications to students in high poverty, urban
plex and face greater time constraints, the demands on today’s project managers evolve and expand, said Elisabeth Hiles, associate program director of the Woods New opportunities to gain College MS in Leadership and Adacademic credentials in the highministration program. demand areas of sustainability, “Organizations need leaders data analytics, and project manthat can effectively and efficiently agement are now available through manage financial and human capithe Woods College of Advancing tal, and nearly 6 out of every 10 orStudies. These certificates, which ganizations use project managers,” expand the school’s impressive list she said, adding that the program of short-term programs, are now continues to adapt to emerging accepting applicants for spring. needs. “At a recent advisory board The Certificate in Sustainmeeting for our MSLA program, a ability Science is a fully online Fidelity vice president said project undergraduate program, joining a managers who can use agile methWoods College portfolio that inodologies to respond to the uncludes eight other professional cerpredictability of the workplace are tificates at the undergraduate level critical to an organization’s success. — in accounting, communication, We have since designed an Agile criminal and social justice, finance, Methodologies course that human resources, informawill launch in spring 2018.” tion technology, manageEnrollees in Woods Colment, and marketing. Prolege certificate programs range fessional Studies certificates from working professionals to are open to students with a full-time BC undergraduates. high school or undergraduKara Kiely, an operations asate degree. sociate at Glouston Capital At the graduate level, Partners who is currently purthe Woods College has suing a graduate certificate in added Data Analytics, also human resources, finds the online, and Project Manprogram content valuable to agement, a hybrid program her current position. “I’m combining online and onconfident that I will complete campus coursework. These the program feeling as though programs add to the three Lee Pellegrini it was a great decision that Certificates in Advanced “Certificate programs offer students and will help further my career,” Graduate Studies currently working professionals a way to gain in- she said. in place at the graduate “Undergraduates find prolevel, in corporate com- depth knowledge of a subject area — for fessional certificate programs munication and marketing, personal enrichment, career advancecan be a good complement executive leadership and organizational development, ment, or as a step toward a degree — on a to a major,” said William Boozang, associate director of and human resources manschedule that meets their needs.” certificates and corporate outagement. – Claudia Pouravelis reach at the Woods College. All of the certificate proTom Hart, who graduated grams can be taken individually or school’s Master of Science in Apfrom the Woods College in 2017 applied to a related Woods College plied Economics program. “Our program provides a flex- with a bachelor’s degree in political undergraduate or graduate degree. “Certificate programs offer stu- ible, rigorous, and highly relevant science, earned professional cerdents and working professionals a dive into data analytics, equipping tificates in both management and way to gain in-depth knowledge students with tools they need to finance from the Woods College, of a subject area — for personal not only summarize and visual- and believes doing so opened the enrichment, career advancement, ize the data, but also to discover door to new career possibilities. “Most individuals are not in or as a step toward a degree — on meaningful relationships between a schedule that meets their needs,” data, build complex models and, management positions out of the said Woods College Associate ultimately, engage in predictive gate, but knowing what managers look for is very helpful for career Dean for Enrollment Management analytics.” The online format makes it the advancement,” said Hart, who reClaudia Pouravelis. “All Woods College certificate programs are de- perfect choice for working profes- cently accepted a job offer from veloped to reflect industry needs,” sionals, he said, and the high level Oracle. “The Woods College cershe said, “and the three launching of faculty engagement, combined tificate programs certainly helped this fall in particular respond to with constant, hands-on applica- my chances of landing this great tion of the material learned in class opportunity.” high marketplace demand.” For more information or to enThe online Professional Stud- will allow students to immediately roll in Woods College short-term ies Certificate in Sustainability — apply the material to their work. The hybrid graduate Certificate programs, see the Undergraduate overseen by program advisor Jennifer Cole, a faculty member at the in Project Management responds Professional Studies Certificates Harvard Graduate School of Sus- to a sector that is projected to grow and Certificates in Advance Gradtainability and former director of by six million jobs in the US by uate Studies websites. the environmental studies program 2020, and by an even greater numContact Patricia Delaney at at Northeastern University — will ber internationally. patricia.delaney@bc.edu As projects become more comfocus on both science and policy,
Caterine Lucero ’18 and Diego Chavez ’20 announced the winner of a raffle basket during the kick-off for Hispanic Heritage Month at BC on Sept. 15. The month of events and activities concludes tonight at 6 p.m. in Gasson 100. (Photo by Yiting Chen)
New short-term programs in sustainability, data analytics, and project management BY PATRICIA DELANEY DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
and enable recipients to demonstrate their competency in subject areas related to climate change, the effects of shifting population and demographics, and the limits of natural resources. The program has already attracted enrollees from a wide range of fields, Pouravelis said. “So many companies have or are developing a focus on sustainability,” she said. “This certificate will position students to meet an expanding need in the workforce.” Similarly, the online graduate Certificate in Data Analytics program “meets a growing need for data-driven professionals in a variety of industries, including government and non-profits,” said Woods College Associate Dean Aleksandar Tomic, who directs the
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BOSTON COLLEGE IN THE MEDIA An introduction to new faculty members at Boston College
Daniel Farbman
Assistant Professor Boston College Law School DEGREES: Amherst College (AB); Harvard Law School (JD) WHAT HE STUDIES: Legal history of radical reform movements in public law from an institutional perspective and the perspective of the practice of cause-lawyering. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: Resistance Lawyering: Legal Struggle to End Slavery; Constitutional Law What is resistance lawyering? “The seminar on Resistance Lawyering covers the strategies that abolitionist lawyers used to fight against slavery. Many of these lawyers understood slavery to be so deeply embedded in antebellum law and culture that they could not defeat it by traditional legal means alone and so they used their practice inside the courthouse to resist the system from within while also contributing to political and social movements outside of the courthouse. As we explore the strategies that these lawyers employed in the past, we are also looking to the present and thinking about parallels and differences between the strategies that cause lawyers are employing today in their struggles for social justice.”
Michael Hartney
Assistant Professor of Political Science Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences DEGREES: Vanderbilt University (BA); University of Notre Dame (MA, PhD) WHAT HE STUDIES: Education politics and policy, the interplay between political and educational inequality, American political institutions. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: Democracy and Our Schools; State and Local Government (spring) You recently co-published a study of school board elections in California that calls into question whether voter control of public school governance is a viable avenue to correct racial disparities in education. What are the most striking implications to you of this study? “By requiring that local school districts publicize student test scores by racial subgroup, No Child Left Behind tried to put greater pressure on local political authorities by giving citizens more information about inequities in the performance of their local schools. Yet, political elites basically overlooked whether local electorates – voters and in turn school board members – prioritize or even pay any attention to issues of education inequality. “Alarmingly, my co-author and I found that the performance of racial minority students did not seem to influence the decision of most voters in deciding whether to support the re-election of their incumbent school board members. Our findings suggest that the persistence of the racial education achievement gap in American education may, in part, be tied to the lack of electoral pressure exerted on public officials. This is an important finding because it calls into question whether small-d democracy is capable of promoting equality of opportunity in education and in turn raises a much larger issue concerning whether schools are better organized by politics or markets.”
Xuan Ye
Assistant Professor Carroll School of Management DEGREES: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BSc); Georgia Institute of Technology (MSc); NYU Stern School of Business (PhD) WHAT SHE STUDIES: Intersection of information systems and economics, particularly labor economics and organizational economics; impact of use of non-wage incentives on firms and workers involved in digital workplaces. WHAT SHE TEACHES: Computers in Management How has technology influenced the direction of your research? “Breakthrough technologies influence not only how we do business, but also how we manage our people and organizations. My research interests stem from my desire to understand the best practices for modern firms that face the challenge of making organizational transformations in the digital era.”
Benjamin Yost
Assistant Professor Carroll School of Management DEGREES: University of Virginia (BA, MS); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) WHAT HE STUDIES: Economic effects of taxes and corporate disclosures, especially effects of information externalities and their implications for regulation; link between managers’ personal tax incentives and corporate outcomes. WHAT HE TEACHES: Financial Accounting How did your prior career in the accounting industry influence your academic focus? “I worked as a CPA in the tax group for Ernst & Young for several years before starting a PhD program. I wrote my dissertation on the incentive effects of executives’ personal taxes in part because my working background is in the tax area. I think it’s important to understand how taxes affect individual and corporate behavior so we know how to design optimal tax policies.”
–Phil Gloudemans, Ed Hayward and Sean Smith Photos by Lee Pellegrini
Sports were already politicized before recent controversies in the NFL and elsewhere, and sports fans tend to harbor more rightleaning attitudes on economic and foreign policy issues, according to research co-authored by Asst. Prof. Michael Serazio (Communication), who discussed the findings in an op-ed for the Washington Post. BC Ireland Academic Director Mike Cronin provided a historical perspective on the current NFL protests in an op-ed for the Irish Times. In an update of their previous piece for The Conversation Carroll School of Management Assoc. Prof. Gil Manzon and parttime faculty member Tim Gray analyzed the plan released by President Trump and GOP leaders that would be the biggest overhaul of the tax code in decades.
Boston College was one of two schools highlighted by Inside Higher Ed for quickly hiring more faculty members from underrepresented minority groups without relying on hard numerical targets or costly initiatives. How will the rise of nationalism sweeping across many countries affect the efforts of universities to internationalize? Lynch School of Education Prof. of the Practice Hans de Wit and Research Prof. Philip Altbach wrote on the subject for University World News. In The Pilot, Prof. of the Practice Msgr. Liam Bergin (Theology) wrote on the papal document on the translation of liturgical texts. A nanometer-scale machine that can assemble molecules – long thought of as the stuff of sci-fi – has now been built, and might herald a new model for organ-
Colleary Becomes STM Assoc. Dean Maura Colleary was named associate dean of finance and administration for the School of Theology and Ministry effective Oct. 1, STM Dean Thomas Stegman, SJ, announced. Colleary was the interim director of finance and administration for the last year-and-a-half. She also served as director of service center and operations.
$1.15 Million Grant Supports University’s McNair Program The Boston College Learning to Learn Office has been awarded $1.15 million for five years to support the academic and post-graduate plans of first-generation college students through the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. Funded by TRIO grants from the US Department of Education, the McNair Program provides eligible participants with opportunities to enhance academic and research skills that will enable their matriculation at top graduate programs. The McNair Program prepares low-income, first-generation and underrepresented minorities pursue degrees beyond the bachelor’s degree with an emphasis on attaining doctoral degrees. The program provides academic services that include a summer research component, GRE preparation, graduate school application process, conference participation and faculty mentoring. Boston College in one of three universities in Massachusetts, and among 161 institutions across the country, to be selected for the McNair Program. In the 14 years since the University established its McNair Program, four BC alumni have completed doctoral degrees, and eight are currently enrolled in PhD programs. In addition, more than 60 percent of program participants enroll in graduate education. The program is named in honor of Ronald E. McNair, an American physicist and astronaut, and the second African American to go to space. McNair was one of seven crew members who died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger. –University Communications
ic synthesis, wrote Chemistry’s Vanderslice Professor of Chemistry T. Ross Kelly and Prof. Marc Snapper (Chemistry) in Nature magazine’s “News & Views.” Libby Professor of Theology and Law Cathleen Kaveny weighed in on nominations to the federal judiciary for Commonweal and The New York Times. Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor Carmen Ortiz discussed her high-profile cases as US attorney, including those of Whitey Bulger and the Boston Marathon bomber, and her role at BC Law School, in an interview with Bloomberg Baystate Business Hour. Irish Echo columnist Colleen Taylor praised “Nótaí/Notes: Music and Ireland” – a research symposium organized by the Boston College Center for Irish Programs and Boston College Libraries with the National University of Ireland Galway – for giving “the practice of Irish music its context and complexity again.”
JOBS The following are among the most recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr: Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications for Graduate Admissions, Academic Affairs/Provost Director of Development, Law School Assistant Director, Classes, University Advancement Campus Minister, University Mission and Ministry Associate Vice President, Principal Gifts, University Advancement Head Librarian, Academic Affairs/Provost Research Assistant, Academic Affairs/Provost Senior Philanthropic Advisor, University Advancement Third Cook, Dining & Catering Senior Unix Systems Administrator, Information Technology Field Education Program Assistant, Academic Affairs/Provost Utility Worker, Dining and Catering/Auxiliary/Public Safety Lead Special Education Teacher, Academic Affairs/Provost Director of Development, Carroll School of Management
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TONIGHT
HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH CLOSING CEREMONY
6-8 p.m., Gasson 100
In his first United States appearance, Moritz Ernst – one of the leading pianists of his generation – will present a series of three concert-lectures this month in Gasson 100 as an artist-inresidence at Boston College. Associate Professor of Music and composer Ralf Gawlick, who invited Ernst to the University, describes him as “an illustrious and acclaimed performer” renowned for “his advocacy and championing of works from the 20th and 21st centuries.” Ernst’s repertoire “includes both seminal and neglected works from multifarious aesthetic directions,” added Gawlick, whose works will be performed by Ernst in his final BC concert. “His concert programs and discography showcase the entire piano works of Arthur Lourié as well as the complete sonatas of Viktor Ullmann and Norbert von Hannenheim, two composers persecuted in the Third Reich. His enormous artistic breadth and versatility has garnered critical acclaim throughout Europe and Asia.” Each concert in the interdisciplinary festival titled “Keyboard Landscapes: Visions of Modernity” delves into different dimensions and profiles of 20th- and 21st-century composers via their sociopolitical, aesthetic and artistic relationship with their respective times. “Voices of the Avant-garde:
Artist-in-residence Moritz Ernst will present concert-lectures on Oct. 23, 24 and 29 in Gasson Hall.
The Composer as Revolutionary,” on Oct. 23 at 8 p.m., features works by such seminal composers as Boulez, Stockhausen, Schoenberg, Debussy and Bartok. Associated with the preand post-World War II avantgarde, the latter three also represent the three main aesthetic and compositional directions of music in the early modern era that challenged and broke with musical Romanticism: German atonality/12-tone, Impressionism/neoclassicism, and nationalism, respectively. The following day, also at 8 p.m., “Silenced Keys: The Composer as Victim,” showcases composers who were persecuted
under National Socialism – their music ridiculed, labeled and demeaned as “Entartete Musik” (Degenerate Music) and “Verfemte Music” (Outlawed Music). Viktor Ullmann and Karel Reiners were interred in a concentration camp; the former perished, while the latter survived. Norbert von Hannenheim was ostracized and ended World War II in a psychiatric institution. “Form and Dialogue: The Composer as Architect and Poet,” on Oct. 29 at 3 p.m., bookends novel compositional approaches to form and musical treatment that date from the early years of Modernism through the present. Varied designs of structural poet-
ry reveal quintessential 20th- and 21st-century aesthetics as “dominogenealogy,” quotation and integration. Composers include BC’s Gawlick, Ferruccio Busoni and Wolfgang Rihm. Pre-concert talks by Ernst and others, including Assistant Professor of Music Daniel Callahan, will present contextual perspective to the music. The accompanying lectures “will invaluably enrich the listener’s aesthetic experience since they assist in bridging the gap between theory and practice,” said Gawlick, “in order to elevate the audience’s understanding and critical appreciation of a neglected, oft misunderstood but strikingly engaging, original and relevant repertory.” Ernst’s ongoing projects include recording the complete sonatas by Joseph Haydn and the harpsichord works of Kent Olofsson, Gawlick notes. “In ad-
dition to playing the works of composers from the commonpractice period (1600-1900) – Gibbons, Bull, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, et al., to early modernists such as Debussy, Reger and Bartok – he regularly performs the works of Cage, Messiaen, Boulez, Stockhausen, Arnold as well as Rihm, Bhagwita, the microtonal works of Herfert and Pröve and new music for harpsichord by Henze and Ligeti.” [For more details, see Ernst’s website, www. moritz-ernst.com.] Ernst’s artist-in-residency is sponsored and supported by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Music Department. His appearances are open to the public, free of charge. For information, email concerts@bc.edu –University Communications
Harvest Fest
Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Academic Quad
A collaborative event hosted by EcoPledge and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, along with different environmental groups on campus, to raise awareness about conscious consumerism and the importance of buying food locally. Fresh produce, pumpkin-painting and educational activities will be among the attractions.
BC SCENES
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WEEKEND OF MEMORIES
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Parents’ Weekend 2017 – which took place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 – was full of Boston College family reunions (left) and a multitude of events and activities, including open houses with BC deans and (above left) a Sunday morning liturgy and farewell breakfast. A highlight of the weekend was the 25th annual Pops on the Heights Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala in Conte Forum, where guest performer Jennifer Hudson was the center of attention (above) during her concert with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. The gala also included presentation of the President’s Medal for Excellence (right) to composer and conductor John Williams, who was congratulated by President William P. Leahy, SJ. [Read about this year’s recordbreaking Pops on the Heights event at http://bit.ly/pops-2017.]