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CODE BREAKERS
The departments of computer science, biology, and mathematics have collaborated on a new concentration in bioinformatics for undergraduates. Bioinformatics is a growing scientific field that uses mathematics and computer programming to process and analyze biological information. The biology department is now accepting graduate students in the discipline.
» More on bioinformatics and computational biology at BC
UNION TALKS
Boston College has begun discussions with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a possible merger that would result in creation of a school of theology at BC. The school would likely be located at St. William's Hall on the Brighton Campus, and would include BC's Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry. Weston, founded in 1922, is one of two Jesuit theological schools in the United States, and enrolls some 240 students, half of whom are lay.
» Weston Jesuit School of Theology
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THE ETHICISTS
AUGUST CHAIR
Education professor Janet E. Helms, a research psychologist who studies racial identity, has been appointed to the University's Augustus Long Chair. Helms is the founding director of BC's Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture.
» Janet Helms's faculty page
» Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture
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GOLDEN YEARS
The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College has received $1.9 million in new funding from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to support research on retirement income issues—a 65 percent increase over last year's funding. Since the center's establishment in 1998, it has received $11.6 million from the SSA and another $1.6 million from corporate and foundation sources.
» Center for Retirement Research
» Partners in retirement research
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IRISH EYES
During the 2004 election, BC's Irish Institute was host to 10 journalists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The observers attended a seminar by political science professor Marc Landy, visited with writers and editors from the
Boston Globe
and
Boston Herald,
and met local and national political officials, consultants, and analysts. They watched the election at Boston's WCVB-TV studios, and then visited Louisville, Kentucky, to get a "heartland" view.
» Irish Institute
» Marc Landy's faculty page
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SILENCE MOVIE
Fine arts professor John Michalczyk's film,
Killing Silence,
had its world premiere last fall at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The film, directed and coproduced by Michalczyk, examines the Mafia's historic hold on Sicily and the efforts Sicilians have made since the 1990s to challenge it. Other BC community members credited in the film include faculty members Raymond Helmick, SJ, (theology) coproducer; Charles Meyer (studio art), associate producer, sound recordist, and still photographer; and Margaret McAllister (music), music producer; Paul Goudreau '88 served as associate producer, editor, and camera operator.
» View Killing Silence on @BC
» An interview with Michalczyk
» John Michalczyk's faculty page
DEATHS
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Grant W. Balkema, a member of the biology faculty since 1987, on November 24, at age 53.
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Robert L. Castagnola '51, MSW'58, a member of the Graduate School of Social Work faculty since 1962, on January 4, at age 75.
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Leah K. Deni, education program associate at the Urban Ecology Institute since 2002, on December 22, at age 25.
» More from BC's Urban Ecology Institute
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Albert J. Kelley, dean of the Carroll School of Management from 1967 to 1978, on December 8, at age 80.
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Francis McCaffrey, a member of the physics faculty since 1956, on January 13, at age 84.
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