By: Carolyn Freeman

The planet is close to its climate change tipping point, but three panelists hosted by BC Fossil Free on Feb. 26 in Higgins 300 led discourse on how divesting from fossil fuels could help reduce damage to the environment.

By: Nathan McGuire

Jessica Stevens, A&S ’14, and Joseph Palomba, A&S ’15, both staff members at the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), were invited to the White House last week to attend a round table discussion with the Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.

By: Nathan McGuire

Charles Baker, Jr., the leading Republican gubernatorial candidate and former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, delivered the keynote address on Monday at a health care forum sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW).

By: Connor Farley

At Tuesday’s UGBC Student Assembly (SA) meeting, the proposed agenda was centered on bringing to the floor and carrying out two primary functions: approving legislature on proposed amendments to the UGBC constitution and the first reading of two bills. The first bill aimed to reform SA Standing Rules, and the other addressed handicap access and disability awareness on campus.

By: Connor Farley

Assistant professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences Maksym Fedorchuk was recently awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship for his work in the field of algebraic geometry from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, named after the former president and CEO of General Motors.

Pope Francis and the ways in which his papacy is distinct from those of his predecessors was the focus of a panel Tuesday composed of Boston College faculty, the president of Assumption College, and the executive director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity.

By: Jennifer Suh

Eileen Searle, CGSON ’15, was given a grant by the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and named a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar.