http://at.bc.edu Thu, 08 May 2008 20:22:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the biology department’s May 2 Undergraduate Research Celebration, Inna Grishkan ’08 (right) won the Grant W. Balkema Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher for her laboratory investigation of basic mechanisms for transmitting epigenetic information—information that controls gene expression. Selected by a panel of seven faculty members, Grishkan’s project, entitled “Nucleosome ... http://at.bc.edu/2008-05-02/ Film actor, writer, and director Thomas McCarthy ’88 (center) took part in three events at the University’s 10th annual Arts Festival. On the night of April 25 he spoke about his recent movie The Visitor (Overture, 2008) following its public screening on O’Neill Plaza. The next day he was interviewed ... http://at.bc.edu/2008-04-26/ Published in conjunction with the University’s 75th anniversary in 1938, Songs of Boston College contains 13 school songs, in “lead sheet” form, for voice and piano accompaniment. It was compiled and arranged by James Ecker, director of the Boston College Music Clubs from 1926 to 1936, and is dedicated to ... http://at.bc.edu/songsofbc/ http://at.bc.edu/portfolio/ @BC presents the final installment of profiles of the 10 men and 6 women who are new to the faculty this year. Among them are a classicist who describes how groups in Roman society—celebrity orators, doctors, and early Christians—were coping with the dynamics of membership and entitlement; a political scientist ... http://at.bc.edu/newfaculty208/ William Neenan, SJ, vice president and special assistant to the president, says that he became an avid general reader when he was studying economics in graduate school. “I started reading before going to bed because I didn’t want my whole life to be constrained by reading economics and math. As ... http://at.bc.edu/deanslist/ Michael K. Durkin ’77 is four months into his term as the new president and CEO for the Massachusetts branch of the country’s largest charity, the United Way. Described by colleagues as “someone who is as comfortable in a homeless shelter as in a corporate boardroom,” Durkin has been with ... http://at.bc.edu/googledmichaeldurkin/ Rev. Hubert Walters came to Boston College in 1982 to direct the vocal group Voices of Imani. (Imani means “faith” in Swahili.) His contributions to cultural life on campus “made Black Studies [now African and African Diaspora Studies] an emotional and intellectual home for black students, and gave them the ... http://at.bc.edu/2008-04-11/ A crowd of some 2,000 came to Conte Forum on the evening of April 14 for a rally celebrating the Boston College men’s hockey team, which won the NCAA championship on April 12 with a 4-1 win over Notre Dame. Happy fans formed a line that wound halfway around the ... http://at.bc.edu/2008-04-14/ Beginning with a worship service at the McMullen Museum’s exhibit Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire, the semi-annual student-faculty Shabbat celebration, sponsored by Hillel of Boston College, attracted some 70 participants on April 4. “This is one of those things that Boston College does best,” said museum ... http://at.bc.edu/2008-04-04/