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SCIENCE
For the first time, Boston College has accounted for multiple
first-place winners in the Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit
Book Awards. Professor Paul Davidovits (chemistry) won for
Physics in Biology and Medicine, in the natural sciences
category, while Professor Peter Clote (biology and computer
science) cowrote the winning Boolean Functions and Computation
Models, in the mathematics and computer science category.
Photo: Davidovits (left) and Clote. By Justin Knight
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WHO’S TALKING
Speakers at Boston College this fall have included Jane Brox,
author of Five Thousand Days Like This One; Maria
Cirino, CEO of Guardent; John Feffer, author of North Korea/South
Korea; Steven Goldsmith, special advisor to President George
W. Bush on faith-based initiatives; Holly Metcalf, Olympic
gold medalist; Michael Moore, Academy Award–winning
director; Thomas Reilly JD’70, the attorney general
of Massachusetts; David Tracy, University of Chicago theologian;
Deborah Willis, curator of the Center for African American
History and Culture; and Robert Zemsky, CEO of the Learning
Alliance.
View recent BC lectures at Front Row
DEDICATED
On September 12, Boston College formally dedicated its school
of nursing in honor of the late William F. Connell ’59,
a 24-year member of the board of trustees. A symposium was
held in Robsham Theater on "Meeting the Nation's Need
for Nurses," featuring representatives from the nursing,
hospital, and insurance sectors and moderated by WBZ-TV HealthWatch
reporter Mallika Marshall, MD. Afterward, U.S. Senator Edward
M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) delivered the keynote address at a ceremony
held outside Cushing Hall. Present were Connell's wife, Margot,
and their six children, all BC alumni.
More on the dedication/view the symposium
NEW TRUSTEES
At the first meeting of the year, on September 26, the University Board of Trustees elected eight trustees to four-year terms: Patrick Carney ’70; Cynthia Lee Egan ’78; Mario J. Gabelli P’90, ’94, ’95, ’00; Paul F. Harman, SJ, ’61; Robert K. Kraft; Paula D. Polito ’81; Pierre R. Prosper ’85; and Scott Pilarz, SJ. Reelected for additional four-year terms were Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, ’64; R. Robert Popeo JD’79; and Marianne D. Short ’73, JD’76.
DR. SOPHOMORE
Boston College has joined Tufts and Brandeis universities in a new early-acceptance program that assures selected sophomore undergraduates a place at Tufts Medical School upon graduation. Candidates should have completed five pre-med science courses, achieved a minimum GPA of 3.5, and worked or volunteered in a health care setting.
 TORCH
PASS
Theology professor Thomas Groome has succeeded Associate Professor
Mary Ann Hinsdale, SHM, as the director of Boston College’s
Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry. After
a semester teaching at the University of Dayton, Hinsdale
will return to BC to teach in the theology department. Groome,
who has been at the institute for 28 years, began his term
on August 1.
Photo: Thomas Groome. By Lee
Pellegrini
Professor
Thomas Groome's biographical summary
Institute
of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry
VIRUS BUSTERS
During the height of the SoBig, Nachi, and Blaster virus attacks that began in late August, the number of e-mails handled weekly by the BC server jumped from 2 million to more than 13 million. Rather than close the system down temporarily, BC’s Office of Information Technology worked around the clock, handling a 65 percent increase in student requests for help while creating computer software patches and system filters and blocks. Newly developed diagnostic tools enable IT staff to check the anti-virus protection on 10,000 computers in the BC system.
More on the virus attacks
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short history of computer viruses
BALL, CAP, AND GOWN
The 95 percent graduation rate of Boston College football players is the best in Division I-A football, according to the NCAA. The ranking reflects data for students who entered as freshmen in fall 1996 and graduated within six years. Second and third in the rankings are Notre Dame (92 percent) and Vanderbilt (91 percent). BC’s graduation rate for all student-athletes, male and female, is, at 86 percent, the sixth best in the nation among Division I-A programs.
NCAA 2003 graduation rates report, Division 1
DEATHS
- John M. Corcoran ’48, University trustee from 1986 to 1994 and trustee associate since 1994, on October 22, at age 80.
- Laszlo Egyud, research associate at BC’s Sonntag Institute for Cancer Research from 1978 to 1980 and father of Matthew ’07, on August 18.
- Carol Gingola, BC housekeeping staff since 2000, on August 14, at age 55.
- Professor Emerita Mary Kinnane, Ph.D.’63, full-time LSOE faculty member from 1954 to 1990, on October 1, at age 79.
- Jaqueline Mann, secretary in the chaplain’s office from 1978 to 1984, on September 8, at age 79.
- Ambrose “Amby” Page, door attendant at the Flynn Recrea-tion Complex from 1981 to 1988, on September 6, at age 89.
- Kia Anice Rozier ’04, on October 29, at age 21.
- John P. Shanahan, BC mathematics professor since 1962, on September 11, at age 68.
- Peter Siragusa, director of bands at Boston College from 1955 to 1987, on September 13, at age 75.
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