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Upward Trend
Number of applications for Class of 2023 sets record; administrators tout academic strength, diversity
Embracing Hope
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Two students comforted one another at a candlelight community vigil last week on the Plaza at O’Neill Library, organized by the Muslim Student Association to reflect on and honor the victims of the March 15 massacre at two New Zealand mosques.
Boston College received 35,500 applications for the Class of 2023, the most in University history and a 14 percent increase over last year, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admission. The previous high-water mark for undergraduate applications was 34,061 for the Class of 2016. BC has extended approximately 9,500 offers of admission, representing an admit rate of 27 percent, compared to 32 percent two years ago and 28 percent a year ago. The average ACT score for admitted students is 33, while the average SAT score is 1465, up 17 points from last year.
‘There Has to Be a Better Way’ Compelled as much by family experiences as professional and academic interest, BCSSW’s Christina Matz seeks a new understanding of older adults’ physical and emotional health BY SEAN SMITH CHRONICLE EDITOR
Boston College School of Social Work Associate Professor Christina Matz only had to look within her own family to realize the problems facing older adults—and be motivated to do something about it. While she was in college, her grandfather died, after having spent practically all of his adult life as a greenhouse owner and wholesale plant and flower distributor. When Matz came home for the summer, she found her grandmother had deteriorated, becoming less active, more isolated and insular; less than a year later, she died. Her grandfather’s “work until you die” retirement plan, Matz adds, is the model for her father, also self-employed, and for Americans without employer-sponsored health insurance or 401(k) plans. “Defining ‘retirement’ is one of the great struggles of our time,” says Matz, who chairs the BCSSW Older Adults and Families concentration and is a research
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faculty member at the BC Center on Aging and Work. “In the past, we’ve associated retirement with leisure and dwindling activity, but that’s not sustainable in an era when people are living longer. And there are questions beyond how long someone
will have to work. A lot of us have stories of family members or loved ones who, when they became older, had a serious decline in the quality of their lives. “I just remember my grandparents and think, ‘There has to be a better way.’” These experiences and impressions have helped fuel Matz’s interest in exploring the connections between health, wellbeing, and engagement during later life. In particular, she focused on the role of social and productive activities such as work, volunteerism, and caregiving in helping to promote more fulfilling lives among people 60 or older. Now, Matz is involved in multiple research projects and other initiatives that she hopes will lead to a better understanding of older adults’ physical and emotional health, and policies and practices that can improve their lives. “Not surprisingly, we tend to see aging mainly in terms of disability and decline—and death. But this population has
Students admitted to the Class of 2023 represent all 50 states and Washington, D.C., as well as two U.S. territories and more than 70 countries around the world. More than a third are AHANA students. “Those admitted to Boston College’s Class of 2023 are the most academically gifted and diverse collection of students ever admitted to the University,” said Director of Undergraduate Admission Grant Gosselin. “All have demonstrated themselves as exceptional scholars and contributors to their communities. Boston College’s future is bright.” –University Communications
Faculty Promotions Boston College has announced promotions for 25 faculty members. See page 3.
INSIDE 2 Around Campus
Second “Envision” program for freshmen, sophomores; faculty, students prepare for ACCelerate Festival in Washington, D.C.
3 Migration Conference
Boston College to host major forum on migration issues April 11 and 12.
5 Burns Visiting Scholar
Q&A with Patrick Lonergan, who researches the interaction between drama and current events and societal trends.
8 Beckman Scholars
Two BC sophomores earn premier fellowships in the sciences.
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We’re not coming at this from the perspective that one great strike can change everything, but rather that a number of small projects developed with input from the community can make a difference. –Corcoran Center Director Neil McCullagh, page 4
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Envision: An Opportunity to ‘Embrace the Uncertainty’ Career Center program encourages undergrads to explore different paths in academics and careers Boston College freshmen and sophomores uncertain about their choice of major or career path will participate in the second annual Envision program on April 6 in O’Connell House. Organized by the Career Center, Envision offers students an opportunity to reflect on their time at Boston College and consider how their experiences could relate to a future career. The University Academic Advising Center, Office of Pre-Health Programs, Learning to Learn program, and Montserrat Office are partnering with the Career Center to present Envision. “We know that students experience a lot of changes and challenges early in the academic career, and that many of them are already feeling some stress and pressure related to career decisions,” said Rachel Greenberg, director of career education and strategy for the Career Center. “Envision provides a comfortable and fun space for first- and second-year students to hear from peers, reflect on their own BC experience thus far, and imagine what their future could look like if they truly consider what brings them joy and what they are good at.” Envision is among a suite of career planning and discernment programs created
in recent years by the Career Center with other BC offices. Others include Endeavor, an intensive career exploration program for sophomores studying the liberal arts, and Launch, through which juniors and seniors can explore their skills and values, understand hiring timelines for their fields of interest, and hear valuable job search insights and tips from recruiters and young alumni. At Envision, peer career coaches from the Career Center will lead small groups of fellow BC students in exercises pertaining to career exploration and personal goals and share stories about their own path to selecting a major or career. “We hope to encourage students to embrace the uncertainty they feel and use their curiosity to explore different paths,” said Katelyn Forrest ’19, a peer career coach and Envision leader. “Envision might help make them think about their personal career development earlier and start engaging with the Career Center earlier.” Participants will depart from Envision with new connections, a better understanding of the many resources and opportunities at BC, and a personal action plan they have created to guide them toward achieving their goals, according to organizers.
Students participating in the Envision program last year. One 2018 attendee reported that he “could not have been more satisfied” with the experience. photo by christopher huang
Gaven Giampalmi ’21, a participant in last year’s inaugural program, is thankful for his experience with Envision. “I wanted to take some time to reflect on what I really wanted to do with my life and that meant finding out what I liked, what I
was good at, and what the world needed. Envision provided this for me and I could not have been more satisfied with the program.” –Christine Balquist
BC Faculty, Students to Showcase Innovative Research at ACCelerate Boston College faculty and students will showcase some of the University’s most exciting research projects at ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival, which takes place April 5-7 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The ACCelerate Festival is an opportunity for the Atlantic Coast Conference’s member institutions to celebrate creative exploration and research where science, engineering, arts, and design intersect. Boston College initiatives to be featured at ACCelerate include JoyceStick—a 3-D “gamification” of the novel Ulysses that offers an immersive, virtual reality experience of the James Joyce classic—and EduScape, another virtual reality experience that connects users to the city of Dublin. Professor of the Practice of English Joseph Nugent and BC students have undertaken both ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
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projects. Nugent, who presented JoyceStick at the inaugural ACCelerate festival in 2017, said he’s excited to return. “We had an astonishing experience last time and we want to keep that up,” said Nugent. “This festival appeals to two different demographic groups and I hope
that we are able to connect with both children and adults. We’ll be bringing back our prior program with Ulysses, as well as EduScape, which we have designed to be something a bit more lighthearted.” The JoyceStick/EduScape team includes Austin Bailey, Alexander Kim, Ricky Yang, Maxime Gautier, William Bordman, Nick Waggoner, Peter Zogby, Josh Artman, and
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Anthony Marquette. Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor of Science Education Michael Barnett will lead an exhibit titled “Seeding the Future; Next Generation Learning,” featuring some of his National Science Foundation-funded innovations in science education, including projects that teach students to write computer code, examine soil biology, program environmental sensors, and participate in robotics. Barnett said the festival is a great chance to reach out to the public—both children and parents. “We like doing these events because it is a very different way of communicating our work to the public, instead of publishing in academic journals,” said Barnett. “You get to interact with parents, a lot of whom are voters. So you can have some impact on parents to recognize the value of
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funded programs to get kids interested in science—and keep them interested.” Barnett’s team includes Christian Asante, Pablo Bendrikson, Rajeev Rupani, Ekatherina Shlychkov, Megan McKinley, and Yihong Cheng. In addition, BC School of Social Work Dean Gautam Yadama will be among eight faculty members selected from the 15 ACC institutions for a series of interdisciplinary conversations called “Bridging Chasms.” The student jazz ensemble BCbOp! will also perform at ACCelerate. The 2019 ACCelerate festival is programmed by Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, the Smithsonian, and the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. For additional information, see www. acceleratefestival.com. –Ed Hayward
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BC to Host Conference on Migration Issues A two-day conference to be held next month at Boston College will examine the rise of exclusionary politics and policies against migrants around the world, and consider the most effective means to protect, and promote understanding of, the rights of non-citizens. The Boston College Global Migration Conference will take place April 11-12 at the Boston College Law School, which is co-sponsoring the event with the BC School of Social Work. Leading experts—academics, policymakers, activists, refugee rights advocates, and mental health experts, among them Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders, a former BCSSW faculty member—will speak on global trends and the tensions between inclusion and exclusion of migrants. Discussions will include a focus on whether current professional legal and social work
service models are sufficient to address issues of migration. BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau and BCSSW Dean Gautam Yadama will present opening remarks at the conference, which features a series of panels on different facets of global migration. A number of BC faculty will take part in these sessions, including BC Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom—co-director of the BC Center for Human Rights and International Justice— Associate Professor Katherine Young, and Immigration Clinic Director and Associate Clinical Professor Mary Holper; Salem Professor in Global Practice Theresa Betancourt, Assistant Dean of Global Programs Thomas Crea, Associate Professor Margaret Lombe, Research Professor Maryanne Loughry, and Associate Professor of Macro Practice Westy Egmont of BCSSW; Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor Brinton Lykes, co-director
25 Faculty Members Promoted University President William P. Leahy, S.J., has announced the promotions of 25 Boston College faculty members. Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences faculty promoted to full professor were Mehmet Ekmekci (Economics), Stephanie Leone (Art, Art History and Film), Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Communication), Devin Pendas (History), and Franck Salameh (Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures). Also promoted were Rui Albuquerque and Sam Ransbotham in the Carroll School of Management; Daniel Lyons of BC Law School; and C. Patrick Proctor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Faculty promoted to associate professor
with tenure were: Richard Atkins (Philosophy), Ryan Chahrour (Economics), Abhishek Chatterjee (Chemistry), John Christianson (Psychology), Aeron Hunt (English), Penelope Ismay (History), Brian Lehmann (Mathematics), Ann Lucas (Music), Michael Serazio (Communication), Jeremy Shakun (Earth and Environmental Sciences), and Jeremy Wilkins (Theology) in the Morrissey College. Also promoted to associate professor with tenure were Nailya Ordabayeva and David Solomon in the Carroll School, Kari Hong in BC Law, and Kristen Bottema-Beutel and David Miele in the Lynch School. —University Communications
Fr. Beaumier Featured Speaker at March 31 Laetare Sunday Event Vice President and University and scholarly symposia, and Secretary Casey Beaumier, S.J., offers a Certificate in Jesuit right, director of the Boston Studies program to foster leaderCollege Institute for Advanced ship at Jesuit institutions. This Jesuit Studies, will speak at spring, the institute will launch the University’s annual Laetare an online Jesuit bibliography Sunday event on March 31 in and will host a major conference Conte Forum. in June. Laetare Sunday marks the He also serves as director of mid-point of Lent, and this anBoston College’s Loyola House nual communion breakfast is residence for those discerning the Alumni Association’s oldest photo by lee pellegrini possible Jesuit vocations. tradition. The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. In 2017, Fr. Beaumier was named as with Mass, at which University President vice president and University secretary. William P. Leahy, S.J., will preside, folAmong other responsibilities, he is a liaison lowed by breakfast. to the Board of Trustees Committee on Fr. Beaumier, who holds a PhD in U.S. Nominations and Governance; hosts and religious history from Boston College, is coordinates visits of international academic, the inaugural director of the Institute for religious, and political leaders; and engages Advanced Jesuit Studies, established in in pastoral outreach to students, faculty, 2014 to serve as a resource on the history, staff, and alumni. spirituality, pedagogy, and educational heriFor more details, see www.bc.edu/laetare. tage of the Society of Jesus. The institute —University Communications sponsors courses, workshops, publications,
of the BC Center for Human Rights and International Justice; and Professor of Political Science Peter Skerry. “Global migration is a tremendously critical issue for our times,” said Betancourt, who serves as a faculty organizer for the conference along with Egmont, Holper, Kanstroom, Young, and BCSSW Associate Dean for Research David Takeuchi. “We currently are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with conflicts in Syria and Yemen, for example. The human rights and dignity of populations fleeing violence around the world require global and interdisciplinary dialogue. This reality is all the more compelling in light of the traumatic separation of children and caregivers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Stakeholders from all sides have an important role to play in addressing these global challenges. “It’s exciting that the BC School of Social
Work and the Law School have opened up this interdisciplinary space to have these conversations. We look forward to what is truly going to be a momentous event and an opportunity for BC to continue its work on these topics.” Other panelists include Boston Children’s Hospital Refugee Trauma and Resilience Center Community Relations Director Saida Abdi; Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan; Texas Law School Immigration Clinic Director Denise Gilman; Center for Migration Studies Director Donald Kerwin; and José Luis Rocha Gómez, senior researcher at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala and associate researcher with the University of Manchester Brooks World Poverty Institute. For more details about the conference, see http://bit.ly/global-migration-conference-2019. –Sean Smith
Morrissey College Senior Dies Patrick Gregorek, a senior in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, died suddenly at his home in Seekonk, Mass., on Sunday, the University announced. Mr. Gregorek majored in theology and economics, was active in the Liturgy Arts Group and the Sons of St Patrick, and participated in several programs within Campus Ministry. In a letter to the Boston College community, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Joy Moore said staff from Student Affairs, Residential Life, and University Mission and Ministry had reached out to Mr. Gregorek’s room-
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mates, and were in the process of connecting with his friends on campus to offer their support. Moore noted that counseling through University Counseling Services, and support through Campus Ministry, is available for all members of the University community. “In the coming days, I ask you to look out for one another and to provide support as needed,” said Moore. “We are a loving, caring community, and I know we will be there to help each other through this loss.” –University Communications
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The Career Center sponsored a Diversity Networking Night on March 19 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. The event featured an alumni panel discussion followed by roundtable networking for students of all majors and class years identifying as AHANA, firstgeneration, or financially in need.
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BC Sees Progress in Community Partnerships Corcoran Center looking to build on new service and outreach programs implemented in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood BY ED HAYWARD STAFF WRITER
The Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action has been building partnerships in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood for more than a year. Rather than imposing a preconceived program, Corcoran Center Director Neil McCullagh is asking residents what Boston College can do to help. Those efforts took another step forward last week, when representatives from neighborhood schools, non-profit groups, and community-based organizations met at the Mattapan Teen Center with representatives from the Connell School of Nursing, Lynch School of Education and Human Development, and BC School of Social Work. The school representatives discussed the work faculty can do, as well as student volunteers and students in clinical placements required to graduate or earn professional certifications. Lynch School Director of Practicum Partnerships and Professional Development Christine Power told the gathering that Lynch School students are available for clinical placements as they prepare for careers as teachers, counselors, and educational psychologists. Many undergraduates can volunteer for several hours a week. Students seeking professional licensure can fill placements that provided many more hours of learning and service time, she added. McCullagh says he wants to hear directly from neighborhood residents, businesses, non-profits, and schools about the types of support they need, rather than offer a one-size-fits-all approach to service in the neighborhood. “We’re not coming at this from the perspective that one great strike can change ev-
Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action Community Engagement Coordinator Vivien Morris spoke at a recent meeting of Boston College administrators and Mattapan community representatives. photo by ed hayward
erything, but rather that a number of small projects developed with input from the community can make a difference.” The project started last year, led by the Corcoran Center’s Community Engagement Coordinator Vivien Morris, who established an advisory council to help steer the Carroll School of Management-based center’s outreach to the neighborhood on Boston’s southern boundary, where BC has not traditionally had a large presence. In a little more than a year, the Corcoran Center has enabled new service and outreach that regularly brings about 50 students from academic and service learning into the neighborhood, along with four full-time summer interns, says Taylor Perkins, assis-
tant director of the Corcoran Center. In addition, there are 24 BC students in the Big Brother Big Sister program working with 24 students in neighborhood schools, says Kate Daly, associate director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, who also attended the meeting. Dorchester/Mattapan Liaison Roudnie Celestin, of the city’s Office of Neighborhood Services, attended the event and says Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to see Mattapan receive the support it needs to thrive at all levels. “I love to see people bringing energy and commitment into the community by sharing their expertise,” says Celestin. “Mattapan feels like it is playing catch-up in
terms of its growth and development and the mayor is eager to see Mattapan grow and see opportunity flourish here now and in the future. This meeting is a great start and I look forward to seeing these efforts progress.” Morris is a 30-year resident of Mattapan and a leader of the local organization Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, which focuses on healthy eating and lifestyle issues. She says it is critical to take input from residents and other stakeholders. “We are building trust that will strengthen ties between Mattapan and BC and connecting resources of BC to priority issues in the community that are under-resourced,” says Morris. The neighborhood, which surrounds Mattapan Square on Blue Hill Avenue, is home to predominantly African American and low-income residents, says Morris. There are many immigrant families as well. “This is another step in an ongoing process that we started last year to have the Mattapan community clarify issues that are important to them and to connect them with the resources available through the University and its programs,” says Morris. “Today, we’re finding new thinking and new projects and building on the relationships that have started to form.” Miatta Kangee, a school psychologist at the Young Achievers K-8 School, located in Mattapan, says she was impressed by the possible collaboration with the Lynch School. “This is phenomenal and really helpful,” Kangee says. “There are things that we need that the University could provide. That was great. I wasn’t expecting that.”
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incredible capabilities, expertise, and talents that have developed and been refined over many years. We need to drastically rethink how we view older generations, and what resources and opportunities can help them thrive and be active in their communities.” Critical to such efforts, Matz believes, is to have as comprehensive a picture as possible—quantitative and qualitative—of older adults’ everyday lives, and their attitudes and perceptions about themselves and their lives. One of her major activities has been Engaged4Life, a behavioral intervention designed to encourage communitydwelling older adults to embed physical activity, cognitive activity, and social interaction into their everyday lives in contexts that are personally meaningful and natural, via technology-assisted self-monitoring of activity levels, psycho-education, goal setting, and peer mentorship. The project has been supported by the Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions and the BC Institute on Aging. She also collaborated with BCSSW colleague Associate Professor Rocio Calvo in a study that examined older adults’ levels
of happiness and life satisfaction; the team found that immigrants, especially Hispanic, who had lived in the U.S. for an average of 30 years were more likely to report high levels of happiness and life satisfaction than their native-born counterparts. Another research project in which Matz
“In the past, we’ve associated retirement with leisure and dwindling activity, but that’s not sustainable in an era when people are living longer.” –Christina Matz
participated sought to determine the effect of volunteerism on older adults who had lost a spouse. The results showed those who had been widowed were able to reduce feelings of loneliness by volunteering 100
hours per year (approximately two hours a week). Matz and her colleagues received a Mather Lifeways Institute on Aging Award for the study. In a similar vein, Matz was part of a team that researched older adults’ use of mobile phone: Their findings revealed that those using mobile phones for sociability tended to feel less loneliness—especially where associated with increased face-to-face interaction—in contrast to those who utilized them for entertainment or passing the time, and had less face-to-face interaction. Matz’s activities also have involved outreach. This semester, she and Associate Professor of Sociology Sara Moorman organized campus events to celebrate “Careers in Aging Week,” including talks on social inequality in later life; current research and practices involving brain health for older adults; and the grassroots “Dementia Friend” movement that aids community members living with dementia. On still another front—with applications that go beyond her specific area of research—Matz is seeking to increase skill literacy for MSW students who lack train-
ing in research methods and statistics. Supported by an Academic Technology Innovation Grant, she is utilizing ecological momentary assessment (EMA), which relies on collecting data in real time and in natural settings; through EMA, the students are prompted via an app to collect data via surveys that ask basic yet revealing questions (“Where are you? Who are you with? How do you feel?”). “We can analyze the data and demonstrate to students certain concepts, such as measuring happiness,” explains Matz. Hard data, Matz believes, can provide the means by which to answer questions about aging that are often rooted in heart and soul. “People say, ‘I’ve invested so much in my family, my work, my community; now it’s my time,’” she says. “Some want to reimagine themselves, whether through volunteerism, education, even another kind of paid work. We need to look at the lives of older adults through their eyes, and help them address their questions and concerns about what comes next.”
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Q&A: Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Patrick Lonergan
Beyond the Footlights: Theater and the Wider World When he was in high school, Patrick Lonergan played the lead role in a production of “David Copperfield,” but this semester’s Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies pursued a career in academia, rather than on the stage. A professor of drama and theatre studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway—the first to hold such a post at the university—Lonergan has written or edited 12 books on Irish drama, exploring the interplay between theater and the wider world: How current events and societal trends influence the way drama is conceived, staged, and interpreted, and the impact this has on public views on political or social issues. He is one of the directors of the Galway International Arts Festival, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and sits on the editorial boards of Irish University Review and Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. At BC, Lonergan is teaching the course Theater and Globalization—examining how the growth of world theater has shaped the work of dramatists in an expanded literary marketplace—while utilizing the Burns Library resources for his research and writing. He is organizing a one-day conference on April 6 on advances in archival research and their effect on teaching and research in literature and the performing arts. On April 10, he will present the Burns Scholar Lecture, “Shakespeare and the Modern Irish Theatre: Staging Anglo-Irish Relations from 1916 to Brexit,” at 4:30 p.m. in the Burns Library’s Thompson Room. Lonergan recently spoke with Sean Smith of the Chronicle. Q: What was your interest in coming to BC as the Burns Visiting Scholar? Lonergan: The period in the 1990s when I pursued my master’s degree at University College Dublin was my introduction to Irish studies, and it was clear that Boston College occupied a very important place in the field, for its generation of new ideas and for the Burns archives, among other things. So I saw the Burns Visiting Scholar position as an opportunity to be part of this community, and to get to know the faculty and staff. It’s been interesting to see how Irish studies has evolved, in the context of discussions about the field and the direction it’s going, the challenges it’s experiencing. You don’t get to have an Irish Studies Program for 40 years without addressing those kinds of questions, so BC deserves a lot of credit for that. Q: When you joined NUI Galway in 2013, you basically had the opportunity to build its theater program from the ground up. How’s that been going? Lonergan: Very exciting. We have about 100 undergraduates and 25 post-grads, and we opened a new building in 2017. The aim of the program is not to train actors, although there are certainly students who may go on to have careers in the theater. We see theater as providing interesting, thoughtful content which can inform other facets of students’ curriculum: art and culture as a barometer for larger society; how to use archives; understanding the value of an ensemble, rather than focusing solely on the individual. It’s a very Jesuit sort of approach, and that’s where I first encountered theater,
in the Jesuit high school I attended. A big part of the theater program is to believe in ourselves as creators and in our ability to overcome difficulties. Students arrive with the idea of finding the “right answers.” Well, what we teach is “work with the confusion.” And if you’re an 18-year-old on the stage in front of an audience, and the other person forgets their line, that’s when you learn resilience and confidence. Q: Your lecture is going to delve into the connection between Shakespeare, Irish theater, and Irish-Anglo relations—can you explain what this involves? Lonergan: The last few years, there’s been a growing strain between England and Ire-
in your theaters is often as revealing as what you do. What’s been happening in the past four decades—since the outbreak of The Troubles—has been a gradual re-engagement with Shakespeare in Irish theater, which really accelerated with the Good Friday Agreement. This includes productions of “The Taming of the Shrew” and “Macbeth” in which the actors spoke in their own Irish accents, instead of affecting English accents. And now, in the present, there seems to be more Shakespeare than ever in Irish theaters—perhaps, as I said, to help sort out where the Irish-British relationship is going. Meanwhile, we’re also seeing English
“A big part of the theater program is to believe in ourselves as creators and in our ability to overcome difficulties...And if you’re an 18-year-old on the stage in front of an audience, and the other person forgets their line, that’s when you learn resilience and confidence.”
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land, what with Brexit and the questions it’s raised about national sovereignty. And this period has seen an uptick in Irish productions of Shakespeare, which comment directly or indirectly on contemporary political controversies. It may be that Irish theaters are using Shakespeare to think about what the future relationships between Ireland and Britain might look like. If you look back into Irish history, a fascinating picture emerges. Before 1916, Irish theater had been full of Shakespeare literally for centuries, resulting in some innovative productions and important figures in Irish theater. For a good portion of the last century, however, the Irish theater’s attitude toward Shakespeare has been ambivalent, insecure, even hostile—from the 1930s to the 1970s, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin basically banned Shakespeare. The impetus would seem to be the 1916 Easter Rising—ironically, on the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death—which precipitated a marked deterioration in Anglo-Irish relations. There were still productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Ireland, some of them involving famous international actors like Orson Welles, but there was a belief that Shakespeare didn’t belong on the Irish national stage. But there’s another aspect to this: If the Irish were ambivalent about Shakespeare, they also were aware that Shakespeare had been ambivalent about Ireland, going by some of the characters and references in his plays—like Rosalind comparing her lover to an Irish wolf in “As You Like It.” This mindset on Shakespeare might also suggest some Irish self-doubt as an independent nation, a society in transition. What you don’t stage
theaters reviving Irish plays, like Brian Friel’s “Translations” [which concerns the “anglicization” of an Irish village by English authorities in 1833]. What does this all mean? Maybe it’s a way to deal with issues surrounding Brexit. Q: It’s as you mentioned earlier: The idea is to look at theater as a barometer, a mirror, of larger social, political, and cultural trends taking place, right? Lonergan: Yes. During the “Celtic Tiger”
era [a period of rapid economic growth in Ireland during the late 20th and early 21st centuries], many of the plays that were staged at the Abbey suggested that materialism was not a good thing. But in the theater programs, there would be advertisements for the Anglo-Irish Bank urging everyone to “invest your money.” People would call the Abbey to get tickets for business clients they were trying to impress, and when they were told the cost they’d say, “Haven’t you got anything more expensive?” So the Abbey increased its ticket prices. The Celtic Tiger was a time when a lot of Ireland felt flush with cash—dubious as this might have been—and you could see evidence of that in how some people viewed theater in business or economic terms. Q: You also are the academic leader in a project to digitize the archives of the Abbey and Gate theatres, creating the largest multi-media digital theater archive. What are some of the items you’ve come across? Lonergan: We have some substantial video and audio content, scripts, correspondence, and other materials, and it’s quite fascinating. In one instance, we tracked the use of profanity or words with controversial associations in Abbey scripts over the years, like “divorce” or “homosexuality.” What we found was that, before these subjects were discussed in the Irish Parliament, they were being discussed in the Abbey Theatre. Another part of the project involved minutes from the Abbey’s board of directors, including the period in the 1930s when William Butler Yeats was on the board. During that time, which was when Ireland was broke, the theater decided to cut salaries—but they were going to implement a more severe cut for women than men. The male actors wouldn’t have it, they made a big protest about it, and Yeats agreed with them, so the theater’s managers backed down. These are the sort of things you can learn from studying theater: It’s at its best when it challenges society to be better.
STM Hosts Presentation on Resilience and Faith Tomorrow The School of Theology and Ministry continues its 10th anniversary celebration tomorrow with a talk by Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling Melissa Kelley on “Resilience, Faith and Religious Symbols.” The event will be held in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. In her presentation, Kelley will discuss how practices and symbols of the Christian faith can help to cultivate and sustain resilience among the faithful in trying times. “We are living in challenging times, and our sense of personal and communal peace and well-being may sometimes, or perhaps regularly, feel shaken or threatened,” said Kelley. “Resilience helps us to keep going and to live our lives in a fundamentally hopeful way. I hope this presentation offers an opportunity to take a break from stress and perhaps consider and/or reconnect
with some Christian faith practices and religious symbols that can help us to foster and sustain critically needed resilience.” Kelley, who holds a doctorate in pastoral psychology from Boston University, is certified by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and the Association for Death Education and Counseling, a national organization for bereavement researchers, educators, and clinicians. Author of the book, Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, Kelley teaches courses on Death and Dying, Pastoral Care of the Family, and Grief and Loss, and has served as a campus minister at BC and Emmanuel College. Registration for “Resilience, Faith and Religious Symbols” is required and is available at http://bit.ly/2rD2pVv. Contact stmce@bc.edu for more information. –Kathleen Sullivan
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He’s the Shea Center’s Start-up Guru Alumnus Duncan Walker returns to campus as entrepreneur-in-residence
Duncan Walker ’13 with Shea Center for Entrepreneurship Assistant Director Kelsey Kinton ’12. “There truly is no better time to start a company than when you’re at university,” says Walker, who co-founded Jebbit as a BC undergraduate. “You have so many resources, so much support. When I talk to students, I’m constantly trying to reinforce that, telling them to make the most of every day.”
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Five years ago, Duncan Walker ’13 was working 14-hour days as the co-founder of consumer data startup Jebbit. Now, as Boston College’s newest entrepreneur-inresidence, he’s helping current students navigate the ins and outs of starting and growing a business. This semester, Walker began holding weekly office hours at the Edmund H. Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, where BC students can pick his brain on everything from business concepts to customer strategy. “There truly is no better time to start a company than when you’re at university,” said Walker, who is originally from the United Kingdom. “You have so many resources, so much support. When I talk to students, I’m constantly trying to reinforce that, telling them to make the most of every day.” Walker’s own foray into entrepreneurship began during his junior year, when a friend came to him with an idea for a menswear startup that needed a website. Despite having no previous experience in software development, Walker agreed to build the e-commerce site, and taught himself to code. “I learned by sitting in my dorm room,
day and night, just Googling question after question trying to figure it out,” he recalled. “I posted on the BC class Facebook pages, ‘Hey, I’m trying to teach myself how to code. If you have something you’d like me to build, let me know; just understand it’s going to be really crap because I have no idea what I’m doing.’” To his surprise, the post resulted in multiple responses, including one from classmate Tom Coburn ’13 with an idea for a business that would ultimately become Jebbit. While he describes his introduction to Jebbit as “serendipitous,” looking back, Walker can identify specific attitudes and behaviors that contributed to his success. Those traits—initiative, adaptability, resilience, and self-awareness—make up half of what he’s labeled the “2M approach” to
entrepreneurship. “It’s a method and a mindset,” he said. “You look at most accelerator programs and they’re focused on the method, the process of building a business, but the mindset is what really makes a difference when you’re trying to be successful in the real world.” The early days of Jebbit were anything but glamorous, he said, especially when the team of co-founders, all BC students, graduated and suddenly found themselves responsible for their own survival. Still, crammed into a house with 12 other young people, Walker felt more fulfilled than ever before. “It was the time of our lives,” he recalled. “We just felt so empowered, passionate, and excited about what we were doing.” With financial backing from alumni entrepreneurs and mentoring support from Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Information Systems John Gallaugher, the Jebbit team honed its product and found success as a platform helping consumers and brands share data in a more open and trustworthy way. The
company now employs 55 people and is headquartered in Boston’s Innovation District. Walker is Jebbit’s vice president of research and development. In his new role at the Shea Center, Walker hopes to expand the University’s network of alumni entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth of undergraduates’ residence hall startups operating at BC. In many ways, it’s a continuation of the work he’s been doing as managing director of SSC Venture Partners, a startup accelerator and venture fund created by BC alumni to support students’ entrepreneurial projects. Walker’s dual experience as an entrepreneur and mentor is what prompted Shea Center Executive Director Jere Doyle ’87, P’15 to bring him on board. “He’s walked the walk and understands all the things that it takes to build a successful business,” Doyle said. “He’ll be able to connect with our students and relate to them in a very unique way.” Walker retains fond memories of his three years at BC. Originally enrolled at Durham University in England, he arrived at the Heights as a sophomore exchange student and later applied for regular admission. The process wasn’t easy, but Walker sensed that his experience at BC would be life-changing. He wasn’t wrong. “Whether it’s the things I did really well or the things I didn’t do well, I think back on BC as the time that has enabled me to do everything I’ve done since and everything I will do in the future,” he said. “It completely changed my outlook on the world.” —Alix Hackett is a senior digital content writer for the Office of University Communications
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John T. Driscoll; Was Vice President for Administration A Mass of Christian Burial was held on March 15 at St. Agatha Church in Milton for John T. Driscoll ’49, who served as Boston College’s first, and only, vice president for administration from 1988 to 1997, a period which saw several major campus construction projects come to fruition. Mr. Driscoll died on March 11 at the age of 93. Mr. Driscoll had led a distinguished 35-year career in public service when he accepted the newly created vice presidential position: state representative, state treasurer, and chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, a post he held for 24 years. The University, with an expanding financial structure and an accompanying need for major services to support its academic mission, saw Mr. Driscoll as the ideal person to direct construction management, campus security, dining services, and other functions. “John Driscoll brings the perfect combination of managerial expertise, personal qualities, and experience,” said then-University President J. Donald Monan, S.J., announcing the appointment. During Mr. Driscoll’s term, the Merkert
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Chemistry Center, the Law School library, and the Corcoran Commons dining hall on Lower Campus were completed, along with the Commonwealth Avenue and Beacon Street parking garages. In addition, Mr. Driscoll oversaw renovation projects to Campion, Fulton, and Devlin halls, the BC Bookstore, and a significant expansion
to Alumni Stadium. Elsewhere, Mr. Driscoll undertook a reorganization of such departments as Buildings and Grounds, the BC Police Department, Dining Services, and the Bookstore, and completed an extensive study of the University’s mail service, which resulted in several improvements. Mr. Driscoll had always remained close to his alma mater. Four of his sons earned their degrees at the Heights, and he was president of the BC Alumni Association for a year. But several months as VP for administration had transformed his view of BC, as he told the Boston College BiWeekly in October of 1988: “I’m seeing the University now in a totally different way than I’ve seen it in the past. I’m seeing it as an administrator, and I have a greater realization of the complexities of running a university than I ever would have realized from the outside.” When he decided in 1997 to take a new position as special consultant to University President William P. Leahy, S.J.—a reorganization of BC’s senior management shifted Mr. Driscoll’s former areas of responsibility to other vice presidential
divisions—Mr. Driscoll had accumulated many such impressions, and developed a great respect for other administrators and staff with whom he had worked. “One thing which has always distinguished Boston College is the excellence in its appointments, and the strong leadership the people in those positions demonstrate,” he said in an interview with Chronicle. “It was really a case of picking up and contributing what I could, rather than changing anything dramatically.” Mr. Driscoll was predeceased by his wife, Jean M. (Francis) Driscoll. He is survived by his children, John Jr., William, James, Jean, Paul, Maureen, and Robert; 21 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He was the brother of the late Nicholas J. Driscoll, Mary A. Cook, William P. Driscoll, and Helen C. Zona. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Jean M. Driscoll Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o Boston College, Office of University Advancement, Cadigan Alumni Center, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. –University Communications
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An Introduction to New Faculty at Boston College Gregory Fried Professor of Philosophy Morrissey College of Arts and Science DEGREES: Harvard University (BA), University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
WHAT HE STUDIES: Political philosophy; history of ethics; practical ethics; philosophy and law; ancient philosophy; philosophy and race; just-war theory; 20th century continental philosophy. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: Law and Interpretation, Philosophy of the Person, Liberalism and Its Critics.
As a philosopher interested in the contradictions between the founding principles of the United States and the historical reality of slavery and racism, you’re a co-founder of the Mirror of Race Project [mirrorofrace.org], which explores the meaning of race in American history via early photography as the departure point for reflection, research, and conversation. In what ways has the project provided opportunity for scholarship, dialogue, and reflection about the meaning of race, and what are the goals for the future of the project? “One of the most rewarding things I have worked on as a part of the Mirror of Race Project has been the film ‘Before the Trees Was Strange,’ a narrative documentary about family, forgiveness, and the differences in the social construction of race between the Bahamas and the United States. The film’s director, Derek Burrows, and I have been screening the film at colleges and townhall events to get audiences to tell their own stories about family and identity as way to bridge discussion between personal experience and our shared history of racial division. This connects with issues of engaged philosophy that I look forward to exploring at Boston College in fields such as the philosophy of law, the pedagogy of service learning in our PULSE program and, with colleagues such as Richard Kearney (Philosophy) and Sheila Gallagher (Studio Art), the relationship between narrative and justice in the process of social transformation.”
Danial Lashkari Assistant Professor of Economics International Studies Program Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences DEGREES: University of Tehran (BSc, Msc); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); Harvard University (PhD). WHAT HE STUDIES: Economic growth; innovation; international trade. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: International Trade
Evan HeplerSmith Core Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Science and Technology Studies Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences DEGREES: Harvard University (AB);
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Princeton University (PhD). WHAT HE STUDIES: History of global chemistry, information technology, and environmental health. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: Environmental Crisis: How Past Disasters Shape the Present; History of Biotechnology; Can Machines Think? A.I. in Historical Perspective; Drugs, Chemicals, and Health in Global History.
The classes you teach offer a “long view” on aspects of science and technology, e.g., biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and environmental health. How is this perspective helpful for students considering a career in STEM or related fields? “Often, the emphasis in STEM education is on innovation: How can we prepare students to take advantage of new scientific discoveries and transformative technologies? How can we equip students to help create them? And how can we help students cultivate the social and ethical awareness to consider the possible uses and impacts of new science and technology—for example, genetic surveillance technologies intended for catching criminals but also applied to oppressing ethnic minorities. “As a historian of science and technology, I have seen that these pressing 21st-century concerns have a long history. People have been worrying about how to create responsible technological futures for a long time, and many of the specific scientific principles, technological systems, and ethical conundrums at issue in cutting-edge research today have genealogies that stretch back decades or even centuries. Historical study helps us understand key episodes in the global past, from European colonialism to debates over Darwinism to the Cold War, that gave rise to the theories and gadgets that surround us today.”
Michael Teodorescu Assistant Professor of Information Systems Carroll School of Management DEGREES: Harvard University (BA); Harvard Business School (DBA). WHAT HE STUDIES: Machine learning; technology innovation and adoption; entrepreneurship. WHAT HE’S TEACHING: Analytics and Business Intelligence
You are a co-founder of the awardwinning startup SurgiBox (“an operating room in a backpack”). What lessons from that experience do you share with your students? “The key to building a product is to accept there’s a lot you don’t know. Your job as a team leader/manager is to surround yourself with the best at what you don’t know and to make sure they have the resources to succeed. In today’s technology-driven economy, few products are simple enough to be solvable with just one domain expert— don’t be afraid to seek the best expertise for the task.”
–Ed Hayward, Rosanne Pellegrini, Sean Smith
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Newly returned from the U.K., Prof. David Deese (Political Science) outlined the issues surrounding a physical border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, a chief stumbling block for Brexit, on New England Cable News’ “The Take.” While it is impossible to predict the future of Beijing’s higher-education relations with the rest of the world, there will be significant negative developments for the countries that have received the large majority of mainland students, according to Lynch School Center for International Higher Education Research Prof. Philip Altbach, who wrote about the topic in an op-ed for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post.
Hundreds of Boston College students
journeyed to some 40 U.S. locations during spring break to serve communities in need as part of the Campus Ministry Appalachia Volunteers program. Their activities were covered by, among others, WITN News (North Carolina), Greenwood Index Journal and WMBF News (South Carolina), and Huntington HeraldDispatch (West Virginia).
son (History) discussed the history of the Electoral College, and whether the reasons for its creation still exist. Facebook removed, then restored, an ad from Elizabeth Warren’s campaign that sharply criticized the social media giant and other tech companies. Assoc. Prof. David Hopkins (Political Science) appeared on NBC Boston to discuss the development and its impact. Libby Professor of Theology and Law Cathleen Kaveny wrote on Catholic moral theology’s “false crisis” in a piece for Commonweal. A recent study led by Prof. Rebekah Levine Coley (LSOEHD), and published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, which found that teens in states that have decriminalized or legalized medical marijuana, or both, are not smoking pot more than they used to received coverage from Reuters Health, Health Day, US News and World Report, San Francisco Chronicle, Daily Mail (U.K.), and Earth. com.
Appearing on New England Cable News’ “The Take,” Prof. Heather Cox Richard-
National Catholic Reporter ran a feature story on the Agape Latte faith program, launched at Boston College in 2006 by the Church in the 21st Century Center and Campus Ministry—and which now draws thousands of students to events on campus while serving as a model for 44 college and 13 high school programs across the U.S.
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Educators say Generation Z is uniquely bad at dating. Enter Philosophy Department faculty member Kerry Cronin’s widely-chronicled dating assignment, featured by The Wall Street Journal.
Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing Nailya Ordabayeva received the Early Career Contribution Award from the Society for Consumer Psychology at the group’s meeting in Savannah, Georgia. The award selection committee praised Ordabayeva for conducting “path-breaking research on inequality, conspicuous consumption, political ideology, and the factors that influence food overconsumption.” BC Law Professor Zygmunt Plater was the surprise recipient of an environmental award while he was attending the 37th Annual Public Interest Conference at the University of Oregon earlier this month. The Land Air Water Association, in consultation with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, presented Plater with the Svitlana Kravchenko Environmental Rights Award. Plater is the author of The Snail Darter and the Dam, which is being made into a documentary film series. He chaired a legal task force after the wreck of the M/V ExxonValdez and was a consultant to plaintiffs in the Woburn toxic litigation, the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action. [Read a BC Law magazine story about Plater’s honor at http://bit.ly/plater-receivesaward]
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: Leadership Effectiveness Director, Carroll School of Management Dining Temporary Pool, Dining and Catering/Auxiliary/Public Safety Assistant Director, Savings Research, Academic Affairs/Provost Stewardship Operations Assistant, University Advancement Development Assistant, Corporate and Foundation Relations, University Advancement Custodial Supervisor, Facilities/Trades Window Systems Administrator, Information Technology Events Assistant, Alumni Affinity Programs, University Advancement Senior Business Intelligence Analyst/Developer, University Advancement Assistant Director, Career Education: Science, Technology, and Engineering, Student Affairs/Residential Life Grant and Contract Post Award Administrator, Academic Affairs/Provost Fiscal and Grant Administrator, Academic Affairs/Provost
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BC Sophomores Savor Beckman Scholarships University to host Beckman Scholars Colloquium this spring BY ED HAYWARD STAFF WRITER
Biochemistry majors Kaitlin Malley and Patrick McGeoghegan have been selected as Beckman Scholars, a premier fellowship funded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to support outstanding undergraduate students in the sciences. The sophomores were selected by a faculty committee established as part of a three-year, $156,000 foundation program award which supports the selection of two scholars each year. Last year, chemistry major Enric Adillon and biochemistry major Eric Snow, now juniors, were chosen as Beckman Scholars. “It was a difficult decision given the high-quality applicants but we are excited to see the great work that Patrick and Kaitlin will be able to accomplish in the next two years as Beckman Scholars,” said Associate Professor of Chemistry Jeff Byers, a co-principal investigator on the grant and a member of the steering committee. As Beckman Scholars, Malley and McGeoghegan will receive financial support for their research for two summers and their junior years. Both will be paired with faculty mentors: Malley with Associate Professor of Chemistry Abhishek Chatterjee and McGeoghegan with Associate Profes-
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sor of Biology Michelle Meyer. The two students will attend the annual Beckman Scholars Symposium with their peers from around the U.S., as well as professional conferences in their respective fields. “It is a tremendous honor to be named a Beckman Scholar, as it will allow me to make connections within the scientific community and continue my research in the Chatterjee lab,” said Malley, of Grosse Pointe, Mich. “I am most looking forward to being able to develop my own research project where, for the next year-and-a-half, I will be able to focus my efforts in the lab.” The Chatterjee lab studies the incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins and the engineering of the genetic vectors and translational machinery involved in such processes, Malley said: “Proteins containing unnatural amino acids are used in a variety of contexts and provide many exciting opportunities for possible projects.” McGeoghegan, of Hingham, Mass., said he’s excited about both the research and the opportunities the national Beckman program offers to connect with undergraduates at other institutions. “This is an honor because the program offers two years of research with experienced mentors, but also allows me to get out of the lab and collaborate with undergraduates from all over the country,” McGeoghegan said. “I think this experience is going to give meaning to the research I conduct over the next two years and I’m excited about that.”
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Boston College Dance Ensemble presented “Premiere” at Robsham Theater March 15 and 16, with proceeds going to benefit the Boston College Campus School, which provides a personalized approach to special education for children ages 3–21 with multiple disabilities.
McGeoghegan plans to work with Meyer to research new antibiotic targets, known as RNA regulators. When these RNA regulators bind specific ligands, they can turn essential bacterial metabolic pathways on or off. Working with Meyer and Associate Professor of Physics Kenneth Burch, McGeoghegan will use graphene to determine whether or not certain RNA regulators bind particular ligands based on changes in electrical conductivity. BC was one of 12 colleges and universities chosen last year for Beckman Program
Awards. With additional funding from the University, the Beckman program has raised its profile on campus by hosting a Beckman Scholars Colloquium, bringing leading scientists to campus to give talks geared towards undergraduate students, and connecting with students interested in pursuing careers in chemistry and biology. The first Beckman Scholars Colloquium will be held on May 1, where Harry Gray from the California Institute of Technology will deliver a lecture titled “Fuel for the Planet from Sunlight and Water.”
“I am most looking forward to being able to develop my own research project where, for the next year-and-a-half, I will be able to focus my efforts in the lab.” –Kaitlin Malley ‘21
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“I think this experience is going to give meaning to the research I conduct over the next two years and I’m excited about that.” –Patrick McGeoghegan ‘21