BC Receives $2.2M Grant To Promote Purpose and Engagement in K-12 Education

Mei Dasgupta • March 13, 2025

Boston College has received a $2.25 million, three-year grant from the Walton Family Foundation to fund an initiative aimed at increasing engagement and fulfillment for both students and educators in K-12 schools.

BC Professor Receives Grant to Research Role of Gut Microbes in Type 1 Diabetes

Karyl Clifford • August 31, 2023

The Beatson Foundation awarded assistant professor of biology Emrah Altindis a two-year, $275,000 grant to support his lab’s research on how gut microbes affect Type 1 diabetes. The grant is only awarded to five U.S. research teams each year.

Sen. Ed Markey Announces $6.2 Million BC Environmental Science Grant

Beth Verghese • April 3, 2022

United States Senator Ed Markey visited Boston College to announce a $6.2 million grant the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a team of BC researchers to study water quality and sediment transport in watersheds and along U.S. coastlines.

$3 Million Grant to Aid SSW Study on Intergenerational Trauma

Natalie Arndt • March 20, 2022

The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Boston College’s Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) a five-year, 3.3 million dollar grant that will advance the program’s research on the mental health effects of war on child soldiers in Sierra Leone, according to BC News.  

BC Creates Early Decision Admission for Class of ’24, Replacing Early Action

Jack Goldman • January 24, 2019

Boston College announced that the University is implementing an Early Decision (ED) admissions program to replace its Early Action (EA) program for Class of 2024 applicants.

Mahoney Promoted to Vice Provost of Enrollment Management

Jack Goldman • August 31, 2018

John Mahoney, BC ’79, who served as director of undergraduate admission for 28 years until his promotion in March to dean of undergraduate admission and financial aid, has been promoted to vice provost...

The Case for Creative Funding

Carolyn Freeman • April 6, 2017

"There could be many more Joycesticks, but nothing can grow in a desert. The future of the creativity of BC students rests on the willingness of the administration to plant some seed money."