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INSIDE•Bridging the partisan gap, page 2

•BC version of ‘DWTS’ a real hit, page 2

•BC physicists shed light on insulators, page 3

•University ranks among Fulbright producers, page 3

•Heights wins award, page 3

•Rombalski steps down as Student Affairs VP, page 3

•Sesquicentennial Q&A with Robert Blute ’43, page 4

•Tremblay gets new post at Law School, page 6

•GrantScape will aid research funding, page 6

•Woods College prof. ends tour in Afghanistan, page 6

•Things to do and see on campus, page 8

By Ed Hayward Staff writEr

Five current and former uni-versity presidents joined Universi-ty President William P. Leahy, SJ, and a group of distin-guished scholars last week for a two-day symposium to discuss the place of religion amid the liberal aims of higher education.

Held as part of the Univer-sity’s Sesquicentennial Celebra-tion, “Religion and the Liberal Aims of Higher Education” took place Nov. 8 and 9 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons.

Panels brought together the leaders of religiously-affiliated institutions, as well as scholars from diverse backgrounds to dis-cuss what sets religious colleges

and universities apart from their secular peers who share the similar commitment to offering a liberal education.

“The question for me isn’t whether religion, theology and

belief have a place in the liberal university,” Fr. Leahy said in his closing remarks. “The question is how will they have a place in higher education in the

US, but also in the life of our society?”

To answer that and other ques-tions, Fr. Leahy was joined by Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins, CSC, Bryn Mawr College President Jane McAuliffe, Whea-ton College (Ill.) President Philip G. Ryken, Wake Forest Univer-sity President Nathan Hatch and retired University of Richmond

President Richard Morrill, who gave a keynote address on Nov. 9.

What religious and secular liberal arts institutions share is a commitment to educating the whole person, the panelists said. Where they diverge are the spiri-

By KatHlEEn Sullivan Staff writEr

Lynch School of Education As-sociate Professor G. Michael Barnett has been named the 2012 Mas-sachusetts Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Sup-port of Education (CASE) in recog-nition of his teaching excellence and positive influence on the lives and careers of students.

Barnett is the second Lynch School faculty member in the last four years to win the statewide hon-or, along with Associate Professor Audrey Friedman, the 2009 award-ee. The Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year award is the only national program that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching and men-toring.

Barnett’s focus is on urban sci-ence education, promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields to undergraduate edu-cation majors, and the youngsters they student-teach, through projects

that utilize technology and link to real-world issues.

In his teaching, Barnett uses in-novative tools such as indoor hydro-ponic vertical farms, where BC un-dergraduates work with their K-12 students to grow vegetables and then sell the produce at their own farmer’s markets. Through the project, which takes the participants from seed to market, his students learn about top-

By Ed Hayward Staff writEr

Entrepreneurship has taken root on the Boston College cam-pus, drawing on the expertise of faculty, course offerings, alumni mentors and competitions that give students a chance to test-drive their ideas and business plans in front of leading executives and venture capitalists.

Spurring the growing list of opportunities for students to study and engage in entrepreneurship is the expertise of the Carroll School of Management, which serves as the nexus of many of these efforts, but also attracts students from out-side CSOM who are just as eager to learn about what it takes to launch a business.

“Creating a culture of entrepre-neurship is important, but this is a piece of the broader culture of learning here at BC,” said CSOM

Associate Professor of Informa-tion Systems John Gallaugher. “That’s what makes the University so unique – the chance to bring people together to share and dis-cuss ideas. This is all part of that.”

Gallaugher has led the Carroll School’s TechTrek classes that conclude with visits to tech com-panies and venture capital firms here in Boston, the Silicon Val-ley and Asia. The courses attract CSOM students, but also students from the College of Arts and Sci-ences.

On an annual basis, new busi-nesses are emerging from the Bos-ton College Venture Competition, a six-year-old business plan contest that awards $15,000 in seed mon-ey. Gallaugher and recently re-tired CSOM faculty member Larry Meile launched the competition in 2007, with help from BC alumni and students.

Sesquicentennial Symposium

Weighing In on Religion, Higher Ed

University President William P. Leahy, SJ (top photo), presented closing remarks at the “Religion and the Liberal Aims of Higher Education” symposium, which included panel discussions with prominent education experts like (above, L-R) Nicholas Wolterstorff, Susan Jacoby, Eboo Patel and Mark Oppenheimer.

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“You can see there’s a culture of innovation across the University. BC fosters that culture of being open and sharing and helping out. People

are always willing to help you make a connection.”— Ashley Macaulay ’14

Entrepreneurial HothouseEnterprising students find that Boston College offers opportunities and support for starting up a business

“‘Dancing with the Scholars’ is an event that really bridges the BC community, by pairing people from a wide range of the facets of campus life.”—Cape Verdean Student Association President Rayana Grace ’13, page 2

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The lead-up to last week’s elec-tion has been called one of the more rancorous and divisive cam-paigns in recent memory, but a group of Boston College students were determined to end it as civilly as possible.

Several BC organizations pooled resources to hold an “Elec-tion Night Central” in the Vander-slice Hall Cabaret Room, offering students and others in the Univer-sity community of all political ide-ologies the opportunity to socialize as they watched election returns come in — and, organizers hoped, engage in spirited but not conten-tious discourse.

“We wanted to make the event a celebration of the election, not about party politics,” said Andrew Olson ’14, chairman of the BC chapter of the political bipartisan group No Labels, which sponsored the event along with the BC Eagle Political Society, Americans for an

Informed Democracy, the Under-graduate Government of Boston College and the “Nights on the Heights” program. “Even though individual members of the organi-zations might be on opposite sides politically, we were able to all work together to put on this event under the bipartisan banner.”

The event room set-up itself was a representation of the Ameri-can political-media landscape, fea-turing three big-screen TVs each set to a different network: Fox News on one side of the room, MSNBC on the other, and CNN in the middle. Snacks (including Georgetown “election cupcakes”), trivia games and discussions led by the organizers helped fill the time as election results began to trickle in, and the intensity level picked up — but with no evident nasti-ness among those in attendance, according to Olson.

“People were civil and respect- Carroll School of Manage-ment graduate students got to hear a post-Election 2012 per-spective from a leading figure in the nation’s financial system when Eric Rosengren, the presi-dent and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, spoke Nov. 7 at the Boston College Club.

“Providing our graduate management students the op-portunity to hear from and ask questions of leaders in industry is an integral part of graduate man-agement education at the Carroll School,” said CSOM Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Jeffrey Ringuest. “President Rosengren’s talk at the BC Club on the day after the election was a remarkable presentation on economic policy and the out-look for the economy. It gave our students a great perspective on what they will likely face as they prepare and return to the workforce.”

Rosengren has led the Boston Fed since 2007.

—Ed Hayward

An annual campus event that matches Boston College student dance troupe leaders with rep-resentatives of various BC orga-nizations has built a large fan following, much like the popular ABC-TV show, “Dancing with the Stars,” on which it is based.

The fourth edition of “Danc-ing with the Scholars” took place Nov. 2 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons, sponsored by the Cape Verdean Student Association (CVSA) — which originally launched the event — in partnership with the Under-graduate Government of Boston College-UNITY (United Nation-alities Integrated Throughout the Year).

“‘Dancing with the Scholars’ is an event that really bridges the BC community, by pairing people from a wide range of the facets of campus life,” says CVSA

President Rayana Grace ’13, who served as one of the event hosts. “We thank everyone who partici-pated and who came to watch the show.”

The competition paired 10 dancing duos, including represen-tatives of the dance groups AeroK, Dance Org, UpRising, Fuego del Corazon, Hawaii Club, BC Irish Dance, Masti, Patu, Phaymus and Synergy, and members of the Black Student Forum, Stu-dent Athletic Advisory Commit-tee, Student Admission Program and UGBC, among others. The Bostonians performed as the eve-ning’s opening act.

Serving as judges were Of-fice of Student Programs Assistant Director Karl Bell and from the Class of 2011, Phaymus alumna

Brandy Norton and Titciana Bar-ros.

The winning duo, cited by the judges for their energy and charisma, were seniors Nick Zwo-linski, president of the Bostonians and Gabriela Meija, captain and treasurer of Fuego del Corazon.

“We created the pairs by part-nering people that we thought wouldn’t have met each other otherwise and probably wouldn’t have much experience with the genre of dance,” says Grace. “We wanted to push the scholars to step out of their comfort zone and try something new.”

This year’s event, she noted, incorporated a greater element of Cape Verdean culture: Each team was given a Cape Verdean song to use as a bonus point option, if they so chose, in its performance.

“Dancing with the Scholars” has evolved and drawn an increas-

ingly larger crowd, Grace says, with 400 in the audience this year. She credits the work of her co-organizers, sophomores Stephanie Ng and Courtney Lawrence of UGBC-UNITY, and Emily Viega ’14 of CVSA, all of whom served as hosts.

“This was by far the best DWTS that we have ever had,” she says. “The turnout was phe-nomenal and the feedback we’ve received from both students and members of administration has been so rewarding. Everyone had a lot of fun and we hope to con-tinue to make this event grow and become more popular in years to come.”

—Rosanne Pellegrini

ed each others beliefs. During the period of the night when CNN was reading election results, both Democrats and Republicans were cheering for their respective can-didates. Although the crowd for Obama was larger, they respected the Romney supporters when they cheered when their candidate won a state. I saw students who I knew were from different parties sitting together talking about the elec-tion in an intelligent, fact-based

manner.” “Election Night Central” or-

ganizers say the event was part of an ongoing campus initiative in civic engagement they hope will promote the benefits of a more positive political atmosphere.

“Our aim was to start a dia-logue, and we accomplished that,

and it’s to the credit of the students who came out to the event,” said Olson. “Election Day is a great day for all Americans who get to exercise their right to vote, and, at the same time, it is the day of increased political awareness. It was really fulfilling to bring this event to fruition and have such a great turnout.”

—Sean Smith

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Returns of the day/night

Sophomores Taylor Eggleston (at right above) and Ben Sardinas kept track of the results at last week’s “Election Night Central” event held in the Vander-slice Cabaret Room. (Photos by Frank Curran)

Julia Hirsch ’15 (facing camera) led a group of students in a “Sunset Yoga” session at twilight recently on The Plaza at O’Neill Library. The event was sponsored by the Boston College Residence Hall Asso-ciation. (Photo by Sean Smith)

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Boston College ranks at 13 among US research universities in producing student winners of prestigious Fulbright fellowships for post-graduate study abroad, according to this year’s survey by the Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion.

The survey noted that BC had 18 Fulbright award win-ners, out of 64 applications, just behind the University of Minne-sota-Twin Cities (19 awards) and ahead of Michigan State Univer-sity (17).

The top producers of Ful-bright winners were University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (40), Harvard (31), Brown (29) and

University of Chicago (24), while University of California-Berkeley, Yale and Arizona State all had the fifth-highest total of awards with 23 apiece.

Other research institutions placing high in the survey in-cluded Stanford, Pittsburgh and UCLA (15 apiece), and American University, Duke, Georgetown, University of Maryland-College Park, University of North Car-olina-Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wash-ington University of St. Louis, all with 14.

For more on the survey, see http://bitly.com/U8sZvy.

—Office of News & Public Affairs

Patrick Rombalski, vice president for student affairs at Boston College since 2008, announced last week that he is resigning from his position.

“After four years at Boston College, I have decided to leave my posi-tion as vice president for student affairs to pursue broader interests in the field of higher education,” Rombalski said in a statement.

“In the near term, I will be attending to personal issues. I will also be consulting, as well as continuing my involvement in volunteer programs,” said Rombalski, who thanked University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and Executive Vice President Patrick Keating “for giving me the oppor-tunity to serve our students.

“I am particularly grateful to the staff in the Division of Student Af-fairs for their extraordinary contributions and for the progress we have achieved during this time.”

Keating will oversee the Student Affairs division until a successor is named. A search will begin this month.

—Office of News & Public Affairs

By Ed Hayward Staff writEr

The latest research by Boston College physicists Associate Profes-sor Vidya Madhavan and Assistant Professor Stephen Wilson offers fresh insights into topological in-sulators, a class of materials with unique properties that challenge some of the oldest laws of physics.

In the relatively new scientific frontier of topological insulators, theoretical and experimental physi-cists have been studying the surfaces of these unique materials for in-sights into the behavior of electrons that display some very un-electron-like properties.

In topological insulators, elec-trons can behave more like photons, or particles of light. The hitch is that unlike photons, electrons have a mass that normally plays a defining role in their behavior. In the world of quantum physics, where every-day materials take on surprising and sometimes astonishing properties, electrons on the outer surface of these insulators behave and look uncharacteristically like light.

These unique properties have piqued the interests of scientists who see future applications in areas such as quantum computing and spintronics, or other realms rooted in the manipulation of electronic properties. The early challenge to those researchers is to begin to un-derstand some simple ground rules for controlling these materials.

Madhavan and Wilson reported earlier this month in Nature Com-munications that the placement of tiny ripples on the surface of a topological insulator engineered

from bismuth telluride effectively modulates so-called Dirac electrons so they flow in a pathway that per-fectly mirrors the topography of the crystal’s surface.

According to Madhavan and Wilson, scanning tunneling micros-copy is capable of revealing the characteristics of these tiny waves as they rise and fall, enabling the researchers to draw a direct con-nection between the features of the ripples and modulation of the waves across the material’s surface.

Instead of exhibiting chaotic be-havior, the electrons flow in a path that mirrors the metal composite’s surface, the team reports in an arti-cled titled “Ripple-modulated elec-tronic structure of a 3D topological insulator.”

“What we’ve discovered is that electrons respond beautifully to this buckling of the material’s surface,” said Madhavan, the project director.

So harmoniously do the waves flow across the ripples – placed ap-proximately 100 nanometers apart – that the researchers say further modifications of the crystal’s “na-noscale landscape” could produce enough control to produce a one-dimensional quantum wire capable of carrying current with no dissipa-tion.

The rippled surface appears to

exert greater control and run less risk of creating imperfections than other methods, such as introducing chemical dopants, used in attempts to modulate the flow of electrons on the surface of other topological insulators, the researchers found.

Madhavan said the team had to provoke the electrons, which lay placidly atop the surface-state of the insulator, much like the glassy surface of an undisturbed lake. The team disrupted the electrons by in-troducing impurities, which had an effect similar to that of dropping a stone in a calm lake. This provoca-tion produced waves of electrons that behave like waves of light as they travel pathways that mirror the contours created in the crystal.

“We did not expect the elec-trons to follow the topography,” said Madhavan. “The topography imposes a sinusoidal potential upon the waves. The ripples create that potential by giving the electrons a landscape to follow. This is a way of possibly manipulating these elec-trons in topological insulators.”

In addition to Madhavan and Wilson, the project team included post-doctoral researcher Yoshinori Okada and graduate students Wen-wen Zhou, Daniel Walkup and Chetan Dhital.

For the second consecutive year, The Heights, Boston College’s independent student newspaper, has won the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Newspaper Pacemak-er Award for general excellence and outstanding achievement. The award, co-sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, has recognized gen-eral excellence in collegiate news-papers for 85 years and is consid-ered the highest honor in collegiate journalism.

One of just 12 national winners for general excellence in the cate-gory of non-daily newspapers from four-year colleges, The Heights was the only college newspaper in Mas-sachusetts to be honored for overall excellence.

Judges select Pacemaker win-ners based on coverage and con-tent, quality of writing and re-porting, leadership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth report-ing, design, photography, art and graphics. This year’s panel deemed The Heights “substantial” and “complete, deeply reported and professionally presented.”

In addition, Heights Assistant

Photo Editor, Graham Beck ’15, placed fourth in Photo Excellence in Sports Photography for one of his shots of former BC Eagle Chris Kreider from last year’s NCAA Championship hockey season.

The 2012 winners were an-nounced at the recent Annual ACP/College Media Association National College Media Conven-tion in Chicago.

“It’s such an honor to be recog-nized by the ACP with a Pacemak-er Award for the second year in a row,” said Heights Editor-in-Chief Taylour Kumpf ’13. “When so much of your energy is dedicated to putting out a substantial prod-uct, it’s an amazing feeling to have that effort rewarded. I’m just so in-credibly proud of my Heights fam-ily – the hardest working people I know – and I’m so blessed to be ending my tenure on such a posi-tive note.”

Added News Editor David Cote ’14, “It’s a great honor to be recognized with an ACP Pace-maker Award. I couldn’t be more proud to be a part of The Heights, and it’s a great feeling to have all of our hard work rewarded.”

—Jack Dunn

BC Among Best for Fulbrights

The Heights Earns Another ACP Pacemaker Award

Student Affairs VP Rombalski Resigns

Fresh InsightsPhysicists take look at unusual properties of topological insulators

Physics faculty members Asst. Prof. Stephen Wilson (center) and Assoc. Prof. Vidya Madhavan (right) talk with post-doctoral researcher Yoshinori Okada about findings from their recent project. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

Scenes from Monday’s annual Veterans Day ceremony, held at the Boston College Veterans Memorial on Burns Lawn.

Photos by Lee Pellegrini

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Dr. Robert D. Blute Sr. ’43 arrived at Boston College as a freshman in September, 1939, during the same week that Germany invaded Poland to ig-nite World War II. His four-year undergraduate career was one of accelerated courses, a constantly changing student population, the heartbreak of personal loss, and a greatly limited collegiate social experience, as America – and Boston College – prepared for the complex challenges of war.

As a pre-med major at BC, Dr. Blute was commissioned in the Army Re-serve and sent to Tufts Medical School to become a doctor. After military ser-vice in Germany during the Berlin Airlift, he returned to Massachusetts where he completed his medical training and became a noted surgeon and urologist, serving as chief of the Urology Department at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worces-ter and practicing his specialty for some 50 years until his retirement at age 78.

Dr. Blute, who is approaching his 92nd birthday, recently sat down in his Shrewsbury home with Chronicle correspondent Reid Oslin, and shared his memories, often referring to a well-worn and annotated copy of the 1943 Sub Turri yearbook. [The full version of the interview is available at www.bc.edu/chronicle.]

What was the environment on campus as America prepared to enter World War II?

We enjoyed it. The world was going to hell but the college seemed to blot it all out. Then some of the boys began to leave – the draft, the war was going on and some were joining the Army or Marines.

One of my cousins, Joe Blute, went into the infantry and was killed. His name is on the Veterans Memorial at the front entrance of BC. It was very depressing at the time, I thought – not only what was going on in the world, but then having your friends leave to join the service.

Was there any enjoyment of the college experience in those days? The day I arrived on campus, we were walking around and looking

things over. We were on Linden Lane, and we saw this man across the street with a whole bunch of young guys. He yelled, “Hey lads – come over here!” We walked over and he said, “I’m coach Frank Leahy. I want to introduce you to my football team. Now, I don’t allow people to watch my practice sessions, but you guys are different. You are the students. You can come any time you want.” I thought he was the greatest guy who ever lived.

BC was undefeated and got to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. We took a trip down for the game. We went down to Railway Express in the middle of November and worked nights to get the money. We went and we had a great time.

We paid for it, though. On the way home, the water on the train was contaminated. We had to offload two of our buddies in Washington, DC, with hepatitis. By the time we got to Boston, we had all fallen sick. I didn’t get back to the campus for two months. That was as sick as I have ever been or ever want to be.

What was it like when America entered the war?In 1941, the next big thing was Pearl Harbor. I was driving through

Kenmore Square. It was 5 o’clock when it hit the radio. We were waiting for the light to change when I heard “The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor.” There was some guy who stuck his head out of his car window and said, “Where the hell is Pearl Harbor?” Somebody else yelled, “You’ll find out.”

Everything then seemed to revolve around sports. In 1940, we were the national champs in football. In 1942, after the BC-Holy Cross football game, we parked our car in a garage in Boston and headed over to the Cocoanut Grove. We went by the front door and there was a guy stand-ing there who looked like he was drunk or something. He was moaning and groaning. He said, “The place is on fire.” We went over to the Statler Hotel where there was a BC dance. We stayed there all night watching them take out the bodies. It was a horrible, horrible thing. Several of my friends were behind those doors dead.

How has Boston College stayed in your life all of these years?I think about the effect of my BC education all the time. I often think

that if I had joined the service like I had wanted to, I might not have re-turned to college at all. The training and education at Boston College was superb — after having Jesuit teachers like Fr. Dorr and Fr. Tobin, I had no problem handling medical school.

I am very grateful for my BC education. It got me into medical school. Everything that has developed in my life started on registration day at Boston College.

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tual underpinnings of that educa-tion or a connection to an eccle-siastical body, like the Catholic Church.

School of Theology and Min-istry Dean Mark Massa, SJ, mod-erated a panel featuring Fr. Jen-kins, McAuliffe and Ryken, which examined the internal and external pressures on re-ligiously affiliated liberal arts institutions.

Panelists said that these institutions face the some-times conflicting forces of religious mission and minis-try and the broad intellectu-al aims of liberal education.

Ryken said it is possible to pursue both. “We want to be faithful and be humble, but we also want to do excel-lent academic work.”

Fr. Jenkins said it isn’t necessary – or remotely pos-sible – to require that all faculty or every student be Catholic. The challenge for Notre Dame, BC and other Catholic research universi-ties is to reach an “overlap-ping consensus” on the religious tenets that guide the university and the expansive nature of lib-eral intellectual inquiry.

It is important, Fr. Jenkins added, for Catholic institutions to communicate a broad Catho-lic vision that non-Catholics can relate to: service to others, eth-ics across the curriculum, and a commitment to the Catholic

intellectual tradition.The university presidents

noted that in addition to ques-tions surrounding mission, the institutions face external pres-sures from rising expenses and the high cost of tuition, rankings and accrediting requirements, as well as shifting cultural trends toward religion and spirituality.

Yet, as Ryken and McAu-liffe noted, as hundreds of col-leges and universities have moved away from the religious affilia-tions central to their founding, they have helped to make the approximately 250 religious in-stitutions stand out among the roughly 4,000 colleges and uni-

versities in the US.“The one thing that helps to

distinguish Christian institutions is the awareness of our history and the fact that we are now more distinctive than we were 50 or 100 years ago,” said Ryken.

“Now that is why students are coming to us, precisely for that distinctiveness.”

Returning to the increas-ing pressure on colleges to prepare students for the workplace, Morrill asked the audience to think about the very different defini-tions applied to the words value and worth. While they increasingly imply per-sonal wealth, he said they are now more important than ever when defined in moral terms.

“Just as we teach stu-dents how to think, we can teach them how to value,” said Morrill, who served as president of three different colleges and now heads the Teagle Foundation.

Without religion, theol-ogy and belief on college cam-puses, Morrill said, students would be left unprepared to an-swer some of the most important personal and moral questions they will confront across their lifetimes.

“Can it be that we would leave the most important ques-tions students must face in their lives to chance...to be answered simply by an advertising slogan?” he asked rhetorically.

More information on the sym-posium, and on other Sesqui-centennial Celebration events, is available at www.bc.edu/150

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Speakers at last week’s symposium included (above, L-R) Harvard University Professor of Education Julie Reu-ben, Columbia University Professor and author Andrew Delbanco and University of Notre Dame Professor of His-tory Mark Noll, and (right) University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins, CSC. (Photos by Caitlin Cunningham)

Teagle Foundation President Richard Morrill (right), shown with Boisi Professor of Educa-tion Henry Braun, gave a keynote address. (Photo by Justin Knight)

Contact Ed Hayward at ed.hayward@bc.edu

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ics such as environmental science, engineering, botany, nutrition, sus-tainability and economics. Barnett has set up vertical farms in Boston Latin School, Russell Elementary in Dorchester, New Mission High School in Hyde Park, Saint Co-lumbkille Partnership School in Brighton, and on campus at BC’s greenhouse.

Earlier this fall he received a $250,000 National Science Foun-dation grant to launch Boston’s largest indoor hydroponic garden-ing youth initiative. [see separate story]

“I try to get everybody excited about science, from K-12 students to college students to the general public,” said Barnett, who joined the Lynch School’s Department of Teacher Education, Special Educa-tion, and Curriculum and Instruc-tion in 2002.

A self-described “recovering as-trophysicist” from Kentucky, Bar-nett caught the teaching bug when he was tapped to teach a lesson about the moon to “immensely in-quisitive fifth-graders” while he was working on his PhD in astrophysics.

Barnett, who holds a master’s degree in physics, went on to earn a doctorate in instructional systems technology with an emphasis in science education from Indiana University. His work has been pub-lished in the International Journal of Science Education, Urban Education and The Journal of Career Develop-ment and is forthcoming in the International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education.

Lynch School Associate Dean Alec Peck nominated Barnett for Professor of the Year, calling him an “exceptional educator” and “one of the most creative instructors in the university and...especially dedicated to his work with undergraduate stu-dents. I am confident he has had a

transformative effect on hundreds of students and that the next gen-eration of STEM teachers could not have a better influence on their personal and professional lives.”

“Rock star” and “the most genu-inely inspiring role model of effec-tive instruction” are just some of the words students used to describe Barnett in his nomination papers.

“[Professor Barnett] loves edu-cating people on how to teach sci-ence. A self-proclaimed technical geek, he consistently encourages his students to find ways to put new technologies in the hands of their students, including some that I have incorporated in my high school classroom,” wrote former student Andrew Trossello, who now teaches chemistry and biology at a Boston-area high school.

Barnett has twice received a Bos-ton College Instructional Design and eTeaching Services’ Teaching with New Media Award for his innovative use of technology in the classroom.

Barnett is known for building collaborative relationships with oth-er departments within Boston Col-lege as well as with urban public and private schools, and other groups, all with an eye toward making sci-ence education the best it can be.

Associate Professor of Geophys-ics Alan Kafka, a collaborator of Barnett’s, said, “With science edu-cation faculty like Mike Barnett, we

are able to break down the barriers that typically exist between science departments and science education faculty and make a real difference in the careers of future teachers and the children they will teach.”

Barnett has dedicated countless hours to Saint Columbkille Part-nership School, where his work has been described as “instrumental in the transformation of [the] school’s science curriculum.”

“I like being interdisciplinary,” explained Barnett. “The real world doesn’t work in silos.”

Barnett says he is always looking for ways to engage students. “You have to reach students where they are,” he said. This philosophy has led him and his research team to develop a mobile app called “Touch Tree” that allows users to identify trees and their ecological value.

His teaching is about more than educating future science teachers: He wants to get non-science majors interested in learning about science.

A grant project to revamp his un-dergraduate course for non-science majors has recently been designated “recommended for funding” by the National Science Foundation. In the course, students will drop data eggs in some 50 public locations throughout the Greater Boston area, including Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Waltham, to collect information on air quality. The stu-dents’ reports will be publicly avail-able via touch foil interactive screens set up within the community. For example, a bookstore in Waltham will display the findings on their window.

“The point of this project is to get the science out into places where you usually don’t see it,” said Barnett.

“If I can get non-science majors interested in how science works and reading the New York Times Science section, then I consider that a suc-cess,” he added.

Other Boston College winners of the Massachusetts Professor of the Year honors have been Profes-sor of Economics Richard Tresch (1996) and Rattigan Professor of English Emeritus John Mahoney (1989).

In addition to his honor as Massachusetts Professor of the Year, Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Michael Barnett also has been awarded a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to support his work with inner-city youth on agricultural projects.

Barnett has partnered with the Salvation Army’s Kroc Center in Dorchester and the non-profit STEM Garden Institute to teach 450 Dorchester youths and teens how to use innovative, soil-free gardening technology to grow fruits and vegetables and then sell the harvest at local farmers’ markets.

The after-school initiative, which will serve 300 students in the fourth through sixth grades and another 150 high school students, is the largest of its kind for youths in the city’s history and promises to not only teach valuable lessons about science and health, but also give students the chance to earn a percentage of the proceeds.

This week, Barnett, the principal investigator for the NSF grant, the Kroc Center and the Boston-based STEM Garden Institute launched the out-of-school program using the latest technology, known as vertical hydro-ponic systems – in this case, multi-tiered plastic garden beds where ceramic beads anchor plants as they are nourished with water, fertilizer and grow lights. [For more, see “BC Newswire” at http://www.bc.edu/offices/pubaf]

—Ed Hayward

Just yesterday, two businesses launched by past BCVC partici-pants – NBD Nano and Wymsee – were among 12 presenters at Demo Day hosted by TechStars, among the most competitive start-up accelerator programs in the world.

Gallaugher says BC’s focus on giving undergraduate students the opportunity to explore entrepre-neurial projects makes it unique. But the ever-increasing momen-tum around the programs stems from fundamental changes taking place in the business world.

“I like to call this the Golden Age of Collegiate Entrepreneur-ship. It’s never been easier to cre-ate a technology-focused business

than it is now. Our first goal is to make sure they know they have this avenue available to them. Our second goal, if we do this right, is that quality businesses will rise to the top. I think that is what we are seeing right now.”

A number of BCVC-cultivated business plans have launched into companies that have raised at least $250,000 each. “I don’t know of anyone who has that track record at the undergraduate level,” Gal-laugher said.

CSOM Dean Andy Boynton said the University is in a unique position to give students the op-portunity to explore new ideas and take risks.

“Entrepreneurship is the un-leashing of the spirit and the intellect – two things that, un-fortunately, are often missing ingredients in large, established organizations,” said Boynton. “Entrepreneurship is also where the rubber meets the road with respect to one’s own effort having a direct impact on success.”

Alumni are playing an impor-tant role in the move to encourage student entrepreneurs by hosting company visits, mentoring teams and speaking on campus.

Earlier this year, BC hosted its

first Entrepreneurship Week. The event gave students the chance to meet with Bill Clerico ’07, co-founder with Rich Aberman ’08 of the group-pay start-up WePay; James Reinhart ’01, co-founder & CEO of thredUp; Peter Bell ’86 and Dan Nova ’83, partners at the venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners; and Pat Grady ’04, a partner at Sequoia Capital.

There are an increasing num-ber of students starting businesses while on campus, such as Jeb-bit – the 2011 BCVC winner that included Tom Coburn ’13, Chase McAleese ’13 and Jonathan Lacoste ’15 – which has already launched its brand engagement start-up.

Rounding out the key play-ers are alumni on the BC Tech Council and West Coast Tech Council, the student coordinators of BCVC and the BC Entre-preneur Society, which last week hosted the StartUp Scramble, an intensive start-up brainstorm ses-sion that drew 60 students.

CSOM junior Ashley Macau-lay arrived on campus this fall as a transfer student, concerned BC couldn’t offer entrepreneurship opportunities. She quickly learned otherwise. Now she’s working to-ward the launch this month of a social entrepreneurship initiative called Little Lux, which delivers toiletries to hospital patients.

Her 60-second proposal for Little Lux won the social inno-vation award in the fall Eleva-tor Pitch competition hosted by BCVC, and placed second overall.

“There are so many people here with great ideas,” said Macaulay. “You can see there’s a culture of innovation across the University. BC fosters that culture of being open and sharing and helping out. People are always willing to help you make a connection.”

Contact Ed Hayward at ed.hayward@bc.edu

Jebbit co-founders (L-R) Thomas Coburn ’13, Chase McAleese ’13 and Jona-than Lacoste ‘15 speak at “Young Entrepreneurship Day” earlier this fall. The trio’s firm won last year’s Boston College Venture Competition and was launched this past spring. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

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Assoc. Prof. G. Michael Barnett (LSOE): “If I can get non-science majors interested in how science works and reading the New York Times Science section, then I consider that a success.” (Photo by Ed Hayward)

NSF Grant Will Support Barnett’s Work

Lee Pellegrini

Barnett Is Prof. of Year

Student Entrepreneurs

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Boston College faculty have an innovative new tool to aid them in identifying and pursing private funding for their research.

Launched this week by Uni-versity Advancement’s Corporate and Foundation Relations Office, GrantScape is a searchable online database of private funding re-quests for proposals specially de-signed for Boston College faculty.

Private support is a vital part of Boston College’s research en-terprise, with approximately one third of the University’s external research funding coming from corporate and foundation funders, according to Advancement ad-ministrators.

“GrantScape will streamline the process of identifying and pur-suing private funding opportuni-ties and, hopefully, increase private research funding for our faculty,” said School Development and Organizational Giving Executive Director Ginger Saariaho, who led the effort to bring GrantScape to fruition along with her colleague Kathy Kuy, acting director of Cor-porate and Foundation Relations.

The database is searchable by keyword, funder, school, depart-ment, topic area, or investigator level. Listings have detailed information on each funding opportunity, including deadline, eligibility information, restrictions and names of previous BC recipi-ents. Corporate and Foundation Relations staff are available to assist faculty in the application process.

Saariaho said she had dreamed for years of a way to improve the cumbersome process of match-ing private funding opportunities with faculty research. Her office previously had sent periodic e-mails containing information on deadline-driven private funding to a list of faculty contacts.

About 18 months ago, a pro-posal by Saariaho and Kuy to modernize and overhaul the pro-cess was funded by Information Technology Services. GrantScape was designed by Advancement Information Systems with assis-tance from an outside developer. Restricted to the Boston College community, the database contains funding opportunities for early-career, mid-career, and senior fac-ulty as well as postdoctoral fellows. GrantScape is accessible from both desktop computers and mobile de-vices.

Faculty can not only search GrantScape, but also subscribe to it. There are two e-mail subscrip-tion services: GrantScape Bulletin, which disseminates all funding opportunities and deadlines five to six times a year, and Funding Alerts, which sends a notification whenever a new opportunity is posted that matches a user’s pre-selected criteria.

Listings on funding opportu-nities can be saved in folders or e-mailed to colleagues and col-laborators.

Saariaho said there are other search engines out there, but it is rare to find a research university with its own customized funding database. She said the function-ality and user-friendly design of GrantScape makes it a “best in class” example.

“GrantScape is an innovative tool that will enable faculty to identify and pursue private fund-ing. I’m pleased that CFR has spearheaded this initiative and hope that faculty will find this to be a valuable resource.” said Larry McLaughlin, Vice Provost for Research.

Project managers based the GrantScape design on extensive suggestions from faculty, who tested the database earlier this fall

and offered their assess-ments. Saariaho said she is grateful for the support provided by McLaughlin, Academ-ic Technology Execu-tive Director Rita Ow-ens, ITS Director of Research Services and Faculty Liaison Barry Schaudt, Slavic and

Eastern Languages and Literatures Associate Professor/Faculty Tech Contact leader Michael Connolly, Vice President for Development Thom Lockerby and the Faculty Technology Contacts group.

Currently GrantScape has in-formation only on cyclical, dead-line-driven requests for proposals, but Saariaho said she envisions future versions of GrantScape that include other more general types of private funding awards as well as possibly public funding oppor-tunities.

“I’m thrilled with GrantScape,” said Saariaho. “I’m really excited about sharing this new tool with the faculty.”

GrantScape will be demonstrated to faculty at an Instructional Design and eTeaching Services luncheon on Dec. 6. Find GrantScape at www.bc.edu/grantscape.

Boston College Law School has appointed Professor Paul Tremblay as its inaugural faculty director of experiential learning.

A member of the BC Law fac-ulty since 1982, Tremblay will be responsible for coordinating expe-riential learning throughout the curriculum to ensure that every student will have reasonable access to such opportunities.

Administrators say creating the faculty director of experien-tial learning position will help the school strengthen its established and nationally known in-house clinics, its growing externship pro-grams, and the increasing avail-ability of practicum and simulation opportunities in classroom courses. Students will have a wider exposure to the richness of the practice of law, alongside the critical doctrinal and theoretical training of which the school remains so proud.

“The Law School has been a leader in clinical education for many years,” said BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau. “At the same time, we recognize that legal higher education and the legal profession is changing, with a greater empha-sis on real-world experience for law students. We want to prepare our graduates for every aspect of the practice of law in our global com-munity. This new position is an effort to enhance our core mission, build upon our strengths, and lead us into an even stronger future.”

BC Law’s Legal Assistance Bu-reau (LAB) has been a model for other programs across the country since 1968. At LAB, students and their advisors represent clients with a variety of legal problems, in-cluding domestic violence preven-tion, family law, landlord-tenant disputes, Social Security disability appeals, as well as offering free legal services to small businesses, entre-preneurs, nonprofits, and first-time home-buyers through its Commu-nity Enterprise Clinic (CEC).

Administrators say Tremblay brings the perspective of both a clinical and classroom professor to his new administrative role. The founder of CEC, Tremblay is a leading authority on clinical educa-tion. He teaches clinical courses at LAB as well as classroom courses in legal ethics and professional re-sponsibility.

Tremblay has considerable in-terest in professional ethics, in-terdisciplinary collaboration, and legal services for the poor. He has been a member of the Boston Bar Association Ethics Committee since 1993, and has served on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Professional Respon-sibility.

He has published in several scholarly journals on matters of professional ethics, including ar-ticles on lawyers’ obligations with questionably competent clients, on rationing legal services for the poor, and on a method of ethical decision-making known as “casu-istry.” Tremblay is a co-author of Lawyers as Counselors, a leading textbook used in law school clinics, and is now completing, with Alicia Alvarez of Michigan, a textbook on transactional clinical practice.—Law School Marketing and Com-munications Director Nathaniel Kenyon

With the completion of a year-long tour in Afghanistan, Woods Col-lege of Advancing Studies faculty member Andrew McAleer ’90, above, is preparing to return to the classroom for the spring semester and resume teaching his crime fiction course.

A US Army sergeant, McAleer, son of the late BC Professor of English John McAleer, served as a combat historian with the 126th Military History Detachment in the Regional Command East in Afghanistan. Fewer than 100 historians are preserving that military branch’s history; McAleer, one of three in Afghanistan, went on missions to remote combat outposts.

“I really missed the classroom, but this deployment reminded me how indebted our nation is to academic freedom,” he said. “It is an honor to serve on the faculty of a leading university like Boston College.”

Since 2003, McAleer has taught The Master Sleuths, which examines forms of detective fiction. A prosecutor for the Massachusetts Department of Correction as well as a Woods College faculty member, McAleer also is a best-selling and acclaimed author, and released his fourth novel, the thriller Fatal Deeds, prior to his deployment.

—Office of News & Public Affairs

A group of Catholic and Protestant teenagers from West Belfast recently visited Boston College during their stay with the Boston branch of Friends Forever, a nonprofit organization that seeks to create trust, empathy, and friendships among cultures in conflict. The young leaders also made speaking presentations at local Rotary Clubs, got a tour of the State-house and South Boston with State Senator Jack Hart, and helped prepare and serve meals at a Haverhill soup kitchen.

Woods College’s McAleer to Return in January

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Law School Appoints Tremblay to New PostBC Launching GrantScape to Aid Faculty Research

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Assistant Professor of English Robert Lehman specializes in British and American modernism, continental Philosophy and visual culture. Lehman earned his PhD from Cornell University after earning degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Florida. He is cur-rently completing a book on modernisms critique of historical reason, The Impossibility of Being Modern: Time, Tradition and Event in Modernist Literature and Philosophy. He has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature, New Literary History and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Assistant Professor of Communication Matt Sienkiewicz teaches cours-es in global media cultures and media theory. He earned his master of arts and PhD in Communica-tion Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. His research focuses on the West’s invest-ment in Middle Eastern broadcasting initiatives as well as portrayals of race and religion on the Ameri-can screen. In addition to his work as a scholar, Sien-kiewicz is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and screenwriter.

Connell School of Nursing Assistant Professor Joyce Edmonds is an advanced practice public health nurse with addi-tional certification in public health from the National Board of Public Health Examiners. A former nurse consultant in the Oregon Department of Health, assistant chief nurse in the Georgia Department of Public Health and assistant professor at the Univer-sity of Massachusetts-Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Edmonds is currently pursuing research on the rising rates of cesarean sections and the influence of culture and social norms on childbirth decisions. She earned a doctorate from Emory University’s School of Nurs-ing and a master’s in public health from Oregon Health and Science Uni-versity. Edmonds has published articles in Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, and the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health.

School of Theology and Ministry Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling Philip Browning Helsel is an ordained minister of Word

and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He earned a doctorate in pastoral theology and a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. A pastoral theologian, his work has cen-tered on care of the dying, grief and caregiving and the sociology of family. Rev. Helsel has served as a chaplain in psychiatric hospitals, general hospitals and hospice settings. He has been published in the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Pastoral Psy-chology and the Journal of Religion and Health. This

semester, he is teaching Pastoral Care and Counseling and Trauma and Addiction.

—Michael Maloney, Melissa Beecher and Kathleen SullivanPhotos by Lee Pellegrini

“Welcome Additions,” an occasional feature, profiles new faculty members at Boston College.

The following are among the most recent positions posted by the De-partment of Human Resources. For more information on employ-ment opportunities at Boston Col-lege, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr/:

Technology manager, office of residential Life

HvAC mechanic, Facilities man-agement

Assistant manager, Dining Ser-vices

mcnair Administrator/Counselor, Learning to Learn Programs

Assistant Director, Graphic De-sign & Production, office of mar-keting Communications

Assistant Director, Housing As-signments & occupancy, residen-tial Life

Law Professor R. Michael Cassidy is one of 68 newly elected members of the American Law Institute (ALI), a diverse group of highly accomplished lawyers, judges and law professors.

Cassidy, who teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, evidence, and professional responsibility, is widely considered an expert on the subject of prosecutorial ethics. He provides training nationally to public sector attorneys on their responsibilities under the Rules of Professional Con-duct, and is a frequent media commentator.

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) named Graduate School of Social Work Professor Emeritus Elaine Pinderhughes as the 2012 recipient of the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award.

The award recognizes Pinderhughes for her longevity in the field of social work and her impact as a scholar, role model, and mentor to countless faculty and practitioners. Her textbook, Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power: The Key to Efficiency in Clinical Practice, substantially changed the language of multiculturalism and human be-havior in the practice arena and provided the rubric of culturally competent practice across human services disci-plines.

At GSWW, she helped establish the Pinderhughes Di-versity Lecture Series, which features a presentation by a leading expert on a topic related to issues of diversity and inclusion.

Professor of Mathematics Avner Ash was named to

the American Mathematical Society’s inaugural class of Fellows. The Fellows of the AMS designation recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. Among the goals of the program are to create an enlarged class of mathematicians recog-nized by their peers as distinguished for their contributions to the profession and to honor excellence.

The AMS is the world’s largest and most influential soci-ety dedicated to mathematical research, scholarship, and education.

A memorial service will be held this Sunday, Nov. 18, for English Professor Henry Blackwell, who died on Sept. 28 after a lengthy illness. The service for Professor Blackwell will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Gas-son 305.

The first African-American fac-ulty member in the BC English De-partment, Professor Blackwell taught for 32 years at the University. He specialized in African-American lit-

erature, American literature and cul-tural studies, with a particular interest in the works of Flannery O’Connor.

Contributions in memory of Prof. Henry Blackwell may be made out to “Prof. Henry Blackwell Me-morial Scholarship Fund” and sent to Prof. Robin Lydenberg at Bos-ton College, English Department, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02467

[Professor Blackwell’s obituary appeared in the Oct. 18 Chronicle.]

NewsmakersLynch School of Education Kearns Professor Mary Walsh, executive di-rector of City Connects, discussed with Education Week how the organi-zation provides additional supports for principals, students and teachers in Boston and Springfield schools.

The Wall Street Journal noted a study by Boston College Center for Retire-ment Research researchers Anthony Webb and Wei Sun that found IRS

rules for required withdrawals from retirement accounts could provide a framework for retirees’ annual with-drawals that minimizes the risk of running out of money.

America would benefit from a co-determination system such as that of Germany, where companies are required to elect half their board of directors by vote of employees, rather than of shareholders, wrote Prof. Kent Greenfield (Law) in the online journal Democracy. His piece was quoted by Washington Post.com and Slate.

Research co-authored by Carroll School of Management Cleary Pro-fessor of Finance Jeffrey Pontiff, which found that stock trading strategies adapted from academic re-search quickly lose their edge as more and more investors adopt them, was noted in the Chronicle of Higher Edu-cation and Dow Jones MarketWatch.

PublicationsAdj. Assoc. Prof. Michael C. Keith (Communication) published a short story in The Greensilk Journal.

Time and a HalfAsst. Prof. Maia McAleavey (Eng-lish) presented “The Improper End: Aurora Floyd and Jude the Obscure” at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

Recent campus events included (above) a seminar for students on the basics of smart financial planning pre-sented by Adj. Assoc. Prof. Michael Barry (CSOM) and (right), a Health Fair for fac-ulty and staff, at which Asst. Prof. Scott Easton (GSSW) received a flu shot from Connell School of Nursing se-nior Ann Harrington.

Photos by Caitlin Cunningham

Memorial Sunday for Blackwell

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By roSannE PEllEgrini Staff writEr

Campus cultural offerings over the next few weeks feature a va-riety of events and performances, from concerts and art exhibits to lectures by prominent authors and a film screening. Here’s a sampling (admission is free unless otherwise noted): “The Arabian Nights,” Nov. 15-18

Beginning tonight, the Theatre Department presents “The Arabian Nights,” Mary Zimmerman’s adap-tation of the ancient Arabic tales. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre John Houchin, it will be presented on the main stage of the Robsham Theater Arts Center.

For more details, including the performance schedule and ticket in-formation ($15; $10 for students, seniors and BC faculty and staff), see www.bc.edu/theatre or call the Box Office at ext.2-4002.

“The Spirit Lives On: St. Ignatius in Boston,” through Jan. 1.

This Sesquicentennial exhibit in the Burns Library Ford Tower high-lights the early champions of the idea of a Jesuit college in Boston, as well as books used in the Boston College 19th century curriculum, Catholic faith-focused student organizations, and the legacy of Boston College Jesuits.

According to exhibit organizers, “the Jesuits in New England faced opposition early on, but were stead-fast in their mission. Boston College, both in the early days and as the Uni-versity we know today, represents the spirit of St. Ignatius.”

For more information, see http://bit.ly/UwYsHU.

“The World Through Our Eyes,” through Nov. 30

As part of BC’s celebration of International Education Week — a nationwide initiative with the goal of fostering international education — this third annual exhibit features 70 photographs taken around the world, by 64 members of the BC community.

According to Jonathan Estwing, international systems administrator in the Office of International Students and Scholars, the subject matter was left up to the photographers, with the requirement that photographs be taken outside the United States (ex-cept for international student submis-sions), and that they have personal significance to the artist.

The exhibit is on display in the O’Neill Library Level One Gallery. For more information, see http://bit.ly/gAKIfD.

“Angle of Repose,” through Jan. 20 Another photography exhibit in

O’Neill, in its Level Three Gallery, features the work of Fine Arts Depart-ment adjunct faculty member Toni Pepe Dan.

“Absence and presence is a recur-ring theme within this series, imply-ing that each image works to refer-ence something beyond the frame,” according to Dan. “Photography best portrays this thematic approach since by nature photographs possess a fun-damental quality of absence. All of the elements within the frame — the props, costumes, and gestures prompt the notion and tangibility of loss and memory.”

For more information, see http://bit.ly/VJrPMG.

“Music in the Afternoon: Chamber Mu-sic Society,” Nov. 19

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mu-sic Sandra Hebert directs the Cham-ber Music Society’s performance of Brahms’s “Piano Trio in B Major,” and selections from “Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103.”

The concert will be held from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Gasson 100. For information, see http://www.bc.edu/music.

Symphonic Band concert, Nov. 27Conducted by David Healey, the

Symphonic Band will presents its fall concert: “Zadok!,” at 8 p.m. in Gas-son 100. It features the ensemble’s performance of the title piece, “Zad-ok the Priest,” by George Friedrich Handel, in addition to Lauridsen’s

“O Magnum Mysterium” and Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” For informa-tion, contact the BC Bands Office at ext.2-3018 or bands@bc.edu.

Lowell Humanities Series Anthony Grafton, Nov. 15; Jane Mayer, Nov. 28

The pursuits of Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Profes-sor of History at Princeton University, include the cultural history of Renais-sance Europe, the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education in the West from An-tiquity to the 19th century, and the history of science from Antiquity to the Renaissance. His books include two wide-ranging collections of es-

says, Defenders of the Text and Bring Out Your Dead. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Bal-zan Prize for History of Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation’s Distin-guished Achievement Award.

A writer for The New Yorker since 1995, Mayer is based in Washing-ton, DC, and writes about politics. She has distinguished herself with her coverage of the War on Terror, authoring the best-selling book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals, which was chosen by the New York Times, the Economist, Salon, Slate, and Bloomberg as one of the best books of the year. Currently she is writing about elections and campaign reform.

Both events, part of the Lowell Humanities Series, will be held at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100. For information, see http://www.bc.edu/lowell.

“Niños de la Memoria (Children of Memory),” Nov. 28

This film recounts the search for hundreds of children who disap-peared during the Salvadoran Civil War, many of them survivors of mas-sacres carried out by the US-trained Salvadoran army. Taken away from massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up in orphanages or were adopted abroad, losing their history and iden-tity. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. in Merkert Room 127, and its pro-ducer Kathryn Smith Pyle will be on hand. To learn more about the film, see http://www.ninosdelamemoria.com.

For more Boston College events, see the University calendar at https://events.bc.edu

What to Do for the Rest of November? Some Suggestions

Photos from the exhibit “The World Through Our Eyes,” in the O’Neill Li-brary Level One Gallery through the end of the month.

Vanessa Omoroghomwan ’15 and Timothy Koch ’14 (photo at left) and Jennifer Mannion ’15 and Matt Hutchinson ’13 were among the duos competing in the Nov. 2 “Dancing with the Scholars” event in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Based on a popular TV show, the event paired representatives of Boston College dance groups with mem-bers of student organizations. See story on page 2.

Photos by Christopher Huang

TWO FOR THE SHOW

Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu