Boston College
Boston College (BC) was founded by the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order, commonly known as Jesuits in 1863. Today, Boston College is known for its selective admissions standards and ranks fifth among other private institutions of learning in the ratio of applications/admissions. Boston College is comprised of nine schools and colleges. Among the colleges, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Carroll School of Management, Connell School of Nursing, Woods School of Advanced Studies and Law School are rated highly by national panels for teaching and student satisfaction. BC is noted by students as being a “Dream Campus”. BC is going through an expansion phase in the Chestnut Hill region of Boston, Massachusetts to increase its state-of-the-art buildings. BC has approximately 14,400 undergraduate and graduate student body with a committed alumni association.
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Office of Public Affairs, Boston College
14 Mayflower Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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News Office
ed [dot] hayward [at] bc [dot] edu
Phone
(617)552-3350
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(617)552-3959
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"Boston College" in the news:
High-quality child care leads to academic success for low-income kids
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2009 |
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For low income parents, finding high quality child care not only boosts the performance of their children in school, but actually combats the effects of poverty, according to a new study in the journal Child Development.
Enzyme may hold key to improved targeting of cancer-fighting drugs
May 29, 2008 |
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A critical enzyme used to prepare a powerful cancer-killing agent may be able to help drug makers better target the cells the natural product attacks, according to findings published in the May 23 edition of the Journal of ...
Nearly a century later, new findings support Warburg theory of cancer
Jan 12, 2009 |
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German scientist Otto H. Warburg's theory on the origin of cancer earned him the Nobel Prize in 1931, but the biochemical basis for his theory remained elusive.
Early protein processes crucial to formation and layering of myelin membrane
Nov 24, 2009 |
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New findings from an international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath were bolstered by the work of Boston College biologists, who used x-rays to uncover how mutations affect the structure of myelin, ...
New Metamaterial a 'Perfect' Absorber of Light
Jun 03, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from Boston College and Duke University has developed a highly-engineered metamaterial capable of absorbing all of the light that strikes it – to a scientific standard of perfection – ...
Scientists stretch carbon nanotubes at high temperature
Jan 18, 2006 |
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Physicists at Boston College have for the first time shown that carbon nanotubes can be stretched at high temperature to nearly four times their original length, a finding that could have implications for future ...
Team develops new metamaterial device
Feb 24, 2009 |
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An engineered metamaterial proved it can function as a state-of-the-art device in the complex terahertz range of the electromagnetic spectrum, setting a standard of performance for modulating tiny waves of radiation, according ...
The guiding of light: A new metamaterial device steers beams along complex pathways
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists have created a device to guide electromagnetic waves around objects such as the corner ...
Computation helps predict heat transfer in diamond
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researcher Derek Stewart and collaborators have calculated the exact mechanism by which diamond conducts heat, a breakthrough that could lend insight into many fields, including electronics.
Authors find social networking technology helps reveal what matters most in campus culture
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Facebook and other social networking sites aren't just online spaces where students can connect, they're the frontier of self-definition and identity to the first generation raised with the Internet, according to a new book ...
Boston College biologists build a better mouse model for cancer research
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Researchers at Boston College have developed the first laboratory mouse model that mimics cancer’s spread through the human body. Using their novel cell line, the team discovered one of the body’s primary defensive cells ...
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision (w/Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Inspired by the behavior of the human eye, Boston College computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double the accuracy and 10 times ...
The pseudogap persists as material superconducts
Jan 27, 2009 |
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For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries of superconductivity, where materials conduct electricity with zero resistance.
Innovative Composite Opens Terahertz Frequencies to Many Applications
Apr 17, 2008 |
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A frequency-agile metamaterial that for the first time can be tuned over a range of frequencies in the so-called “terahertz gap” has been engineered by a team of researchers from Boston College, Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Fathers respond to teens' risky sexual behavior with increased supervision
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 15, 2009 |
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Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they're 18. A new longitudinal study finds that when adolescents engage in risky sexual activity, fathers respond by increasing their efforts to supervise and monitor ...
