This past week, Boston College hosted several organizations looking for summer and fall interns at The 2012 Internship Fair. Held in the Heights room in Corcoran commons on BC’s lower campus, the fair was sponsored and organized by the Boston College Career Center and mostly featured organizations located in the Boston area. Spread out over [...]

Recently, Assistant Professor Eranthie Weerpana of the Boston College Chemistry department was awarded a pair of young investigator awards. According to Weerpana, “The new investigator awards that [she] received recognize young faculty that pursue innovative avenues of research in the biomedical sciences.” With the help of the funding from these awards, Professor Weerpana will, as [...]

On a recent weekend evening in Robsham Theater, Boston College’s male step team Sexual Chocolate held their 5th annual dance show. Entitled “A Christmas Story,” the show revolved around a Christmas theme, featuring bright lights, lit Christmas trees, and an extra special appearance by Santa Claus. In addition to Sexual Chocolate, the show featured performances [...]

Recently, BC Professor Suzanne Matson of the College of Arts and Sciences was made a 2012 recipient of the Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was given this award for an excerpt of a work of fiction in progress. Matson is a professor in the English Department and [...]

Recently, Reverend Arthur R. Madigan, S.J. of the Boston College Philosophy department was awarded the Albert J. Fitzgibbons Professorship in Philosophy. Established in 2007, the Fitzgibbons Professorship, named for a 1967 graduate of Boston College, is given to a professor in order to enable him to contemplate modern philosophical and ethical issues. Now chairman of [...]

This semester, the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College introduced over a dozen new faculty members to its various departments. The school wishes to provide these professors with a warm welcome by informing students of their specialties and origins, and has profiled five of these new faculty in order to facilitate their integration [...]

During a recent week, Boston College’s Women’s Resource Center worked together with several other organizations to present Love Your Body Week. According to Director of the Women’s Resource Center Katie Dalton, “The programs [offered] aim to give students the tools to recognize what characterizes healthy and unhealthy relationships with one’s body, to identify strategies and [...]

Professor John Michalczyk recently introduced his documentary entitled Kenya: Passing the Baton to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. According to Michalczyk, the film is “number 9 in a series on conflict resolution.” Along with its counterparts on international conflicts, the film aims to indicate “how reconciliation can take place.” Michalczyk has been a [...]

As the effort to expand the Atlantic Coast Conference continues, eyes remain on BC and other ACC schools as they choose the teams to join the conference. Particularly, attention has surrounded BC’s apparent resistance to extend to the University of Connecticut an invitation to become part of the ACC. According to The Boston Globe, “The [...]

Next semester, Professor Young plans to teach a graduate seminar in Social Psychology. Recently, Boston College Assistant Professor of Psychology Liane Young was awarded a 2011 Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Social Neuroscience. Young attended Harvard University for her undergraduate education and majored in Philosophy “in order to pursue [her] interest in [...]