The SERVPRO First Responder Bowl in Dallas, Texas, between Boston College and Boise State was halted after nine minutes and 52 seconds of football, due to lightning. The weather cancellation was the first in NCAA bowl history; the sponsor’s slogan said it all: “like it never even happened.” The Carroll School of Management (CSOM) reported that 645 undergraduates have chosen to minor in one of the school’s four new minors created for non-CSOM students: finance (331), marketing (222), accounting for finance and consulting (77), and accounting for CPAs (15). The preexisting minor, management and leadership, drew 270 students, bringing the total taking advantage of this initiative to 915. A Ph.D. candidate and four master’s students in the School of Social Work—members of the school’s Latinix Leadership Initiative—received minority fellowships from the national Council on Social Work Education, to continue their work on mental health and/or substance abuse issues within under-represented minority communities. Former governor of Connecticut Dannel Malloy ’77, JD’80, joined the Law School for the spring semester as the Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor. Malloy was an outspoken proponent of gun control after the 2012 Sandy Hook School massacre. For his stand welcoming Syrian refugees to the United States, he received the 2016 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Emily Prud’hommeaux, an assistant professor of computer science, has received a $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study speech patterns in adults with autism. She will lead a team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Oregon Health and Science University. The McMullen Museum of Art opened Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, an exhibition featuring the recently restored 19th-century bronze eagle that once perched on the column at the end of Linden Lane (the current raptor is a replica). In addition to the eagle, a masterpiece of Meiji-period artistry, the exhibition includes ceramics, paintings, carvings, and other bronzes from the Meiji and earlier Edo periods. Eaglemania will run through June 2. As the federal government shutdown entered its second month, Martin Jarmond, the William V. Campbell Director of Athletics, announced that federal employees were welcome, free of charge, at all games for the duration of the closure. Endawoke Yizengaw, a senior research scientist at the University’s Institute for Scientific Research, was awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Joanne Simpson Medal, given to mid-career scientists for “transformative scientific advances or breakthroughs in the earth and space sciences.” More than 270 sophomores in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences returned to campus prior to the spring semester to participate in the Career Center’s fourth annual Endeavor program. The three-day event explores the range of careers open to liberal arts students. Some 80 alumni volunteered as coaches and mentors. Ariel Belgrave Harris ’11, a senior project manager at Facebook, gave the keynote talk. Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, was on campus to address the annual Council for Women of Boston College Colloquium. On November 13, the Lynch School of Education’s Center for Optimized Student Support cohosted a forum on the importance of addressing the non-academic needs of K–12 students to narrow persistent achievement gaps. The event drew educators, researchers, and legislators from around the country to consider best practices in the emerging field. Boston College ranked seventh in The Daily Meal’s 2018 “Best Colleges for Food in America.” Mary Jo Iozzio, a professor of moral theology at the School of Theology and Ministry, received the St. Elizabeth Seton Medal, presented by Mount St. Joseph University to recognize women’s contributions to the field of theology. As part of the NBC pregame show for the November 4 New England Patriots–Green Bay Packers game, Sam Richardson, associate professor of the practice of economics, faced off against a colleague from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in a blackboard battle of statistics to determine whether Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers is the better quarterback. Mike Lupica ’74, columnist and best-selling author, was on campus for a three-day residency, lecturing, joining classes, and visiting with staff of the Heights, for which he wrote as an undergraduate. In the latest review of undergraduate business schools by PoetsandQuants.com, the Carroll School of Management ranked ninth. A display in the O’Neill Library marked Public Domain Day (January 1), the occasion when works of a certain age (those published in 1923 in this instance) no longer enjoy copyright protections. Among the examples featured were The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, Bambi by Felix Salten, and New Hampshire by Robert Frost. Also entering the public arena this year are works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, and Picasso.

—Thomas Cooper

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