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Graduating seniors, current students, and recent alumni of Boston College have earned Fulbrights, Borens, Gilmans, and other prestigious scholarships and awards.

Lighting the way for others In Pinnacle Lecture, Connell School of Nursing Dean Susan Gennaro offers thoughts on leadership, service, and the spirit of nursing With her last semester as dean of the William F. Connell School of Nursing drawing to a close, Susan Gennaro spoke about the lessons she has learned about leadership, service, and nursing at the Spring 2021 Connell School Pinnacle Lecture. During her March 30 talk, she shared how she decided to become the dean of the Connell School, a discernment process that reflected her Jesuit education. “It’s really about the mission and the va...

The whitewashing of Arab Americans impacted by Covid-19 is a catastrophic public health issue, experts say Dr. Raed Al-Naser was on the front lines at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego when patients first started coming in with symptoms of Covid-19. “The hospital was packed and the ICU was at full capacity,” the ICU pulmonologist told CNN. “And I saw a disproportionate number of Arab Americans in the ICU.” This realization, and a lack of public health data on the Arab American community, motivated Al-Naser to conduct his own research based on the patients he was seeing at Grossmon...

In Memoriam: Lynda Lytle Holmstrom Pioneering researcher in rape counseling and trauma whose interests also extended to other compelling social issues Retired Professor of Sociology Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, a pioneering researcher in rape counseling and trauma whose interests also extended to other compelling social issues—such as the challenges faced by two-career families and controversies surrounding intensive care for newborns—died on February 6. She was 81. The Sociology Department’s first tenured female faculty member, Dr. Holmstrom—who served as department chair for six years—t...

WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents—Jimmy and Anne Choy—in thei...