BC in the Media

Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor of Law Patricia McCoy offered her expertise to numerous media outlets on the topic of bank failures and industry challenges, including The New York Times, The Hill, Marketplace Radio, ABC News, WBUR News, Reuters, CNN Business, and Bloomberg Law.

Millions of workers open retirement accounts, then ignore or forget about them, according to Center for Retirement Research Senior Research Economist Laura Quinby in an interview with The New York Times. The center’s research on retirement preparedness among baby boomers was cited by The Washington Post.

Assoc. Prof. Peter Krause (Political Science) provided comments to The Hill on Saudi Arabia’s embrace of Chinese diplomacy with Iran.

Prof. Rebekah Levine Coley (LSOEHD), director of the Boston College Institute of Early Childhood Policy, discussed the economic benefits of free or heavily subsidized high-quality child care with The Boston Globe.

Iran’s rulers now face a currency crisis, Asst. Prof. Mohammad Ali Kadivar (Sociology), who studies Iranian protest movements, told The New York Times.

Can Dominion’s lawsuit overcome the traditional free-speech defense for news media? Adjunct faculty member Jeffrey Pyle (Law) was among the legal observers who weighed in for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Prof. Carlo Rotella (English) wrote a piece for The New York Times Magazine on Nashville’s Shane McAnally, the songwriter behind many of country music’s No. 1 hits.

it broadly as an exemplar,” said Dwyer, who has professional connections with the Global Genomic Nursing Alliance, International Society of Nurses in Genetics, and the National Institutes of Health. “We want to change and shape clinical practice.

“That’s why it is really exciting to part of the Macy Faculty Scholars community. You’re able to draw on the knowledge and wisdom of these experts who can offer support, give critical feedback, and help you disseminate findings to increase the impact of your project.”

“With this faculty scholar support of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Dr. Dwyer will fundamentally reshape the future of nursing education to bridge disparities in genomic health care,” said CSON Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Chair in Nursing Christopher Sean Lee, who will serve as Dwyer’s institutional mentor. “This highly competitive and interdisciplinary funding will serve as a significant catalyst to further advance Dr. Dwyer’s impact in this area, and at the same time help raise to new heights the important research being done at the Connell School of Nursing.”

Other mentors and advisors for Dwyer’s project are BC Professor of Communication Ashley Duggan; Cassie Buck (Brandeis University); Mike Talkowski (Mass General Hospital/Broad Institute); Shoumita Dasgupta (Boston University School of Medicine); Marshall Summar (Children’s National Hospital); Kathy Calzone (National Cancer Institute); and Maria Katapodi (University of Basel, Switzerland).

“The 2023 class of Macy Faculty Scholars are exemplary educators with potential to positively influence the next generation of learners in the health professions,” said Holly J. Humphrey, M.D., president of the Macy Foundation, the only national institution dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals. “We are excited to see how this remarkable group, both as individuals and as a cohort, will shape the future of health professions education through their innovative work and promise as leaders.”

Lynch School of Education and Human Development Associate Dean Julia DeVoy—part of a research project that is assessing environmental impacts of textile waste, supported by a grant from the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society—was interviewed by NBC LX News.

Part-time faculty member Brian Bethune (Economics) gave a number of interviews regarding the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation, including with Reuters, The Boston Globe, The Hill, and MarketWatch.

Jobs

The following are among the recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources. For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/jobs or scan the QR code at right.

Staff Psychologist or Staff Clinician

Associate Director, Athletics Communications

Fiscal & Operations Specialist

Senior Events Specialist

Patrol Officer

Staff Nurse

Development Assistant

Associate Director, First Year Experience

Laundry Attendant

Head Librarian, Social Work Library

Associate Director, Graduate Admissions

Administrative Assistant, English

Associate Director, Student Affairs Title IX

Resident Director, Residential Life

Transitions & Summer Operations Assistant

Principal Data Architect

Social economist Prof. Juliet Schor (Sociology) discussed findings from her global research of the four-day work week in an interview with Boston 25 News.

“For My Daughters, on Yom Kippur,” a poem by Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Russian/English/Jewish Studies), was featured—both the text and his reading of it—in the magazine Vita Poetica. He also published an essay on living a translingual life, adapted from his forthcoming memoir, in Jewish Journal (which was picked up by Mosaic magazine), and a translation for Purim of “In the Basement” by Isaac Babel appears in Tablet magazine.

Manager, Financial Reporting

Quality Assurance Lead

Public Safety Dispatcher

Senior Applications Architect/Engineer

Software Release Analyst

Alumni Relations Assistant

Administrative & Programs Assistant, Philosophy

Dining Management Intern

Senior Research Associate, Connell School of Nursing

Post-doctoral Research Fellow (multiple positions)