“I never could feel sorry for myself as a result, because it was not really about what I had lost as much as it was about what I had the responsibility to give,” he said.
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Lykes Links Research and Storytelling in New Book
“There’s a tendency in feminist circles to say all women are victims of violence,” Lykes said. “And we were saying that actually, violence is different as it impacts different contexts, different communities, and it’s expressed in different ways.”
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Braun Named Recipient of Educational Research Award
“One of the initiatives in our department … is rethinking how we teach in light of the spotlight that we have on systemic structural racism,” Braun said. “However beneath the surface it might be, to what extent is that part of the way in which we teach quantitative methods when we think that well, quantitative methods are racist? … And so, [we’re] rethinking in a rigorous way our assumptions about what’s worth studying, how we study it, how we interact with different communities, and how we interpret and communicate those results.”
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Panagopoulos Pushes Liqueur Limits With KLEOS
Homer’s Iliad tells the story of mythic Greek soldiers like Achilles and Odysseus sieging the city of Troy in search of kleos—Greek for “renown” or “glory.” Homer’s exact birthplace is of scholarly debate, but some place it on the island of Chios. Now, roughly 29 centuries later, this same island is a key site in…
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Padhi Aids Trade Amateurs With Aventure
“I’m trying to close that round by the time I graduate, which is a little bit ambitious,” Padhi said. “In venture capital and in startups the saying is it always takes double the amount of money and double the amount of time to get anything done.”
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Hecht Spotlights Chicago Theatre’s History in New Book
Since the first theatre performance in Chicago in 1834, the Chicago theatre community has experienced various obstacles from auditorium fires to the cancellation of in-person performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among all of these challenges, something has remained constant—the community. Stuart Hecht, a professor in Boston College’s theatre department, believes theatre is about community,…
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The Power of the Peanut: Salem Tackles Malnutrition With Edesia
“[The social enterprise organization model] also makes you not choose between doing good and running a business,” Salem said. “It’s just run like every other business except our main metric is how many kids’ lives that we saved this year.”
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“Internet Imperialist”: Andrew Breaks Tech Industry Barriers With Her Art
“My work is very much about luxury and pools and champagne,” she said. “At the same time, it equally critiques these power structures that expose all of these differences. I think it gives permission especially to women to mold reality the way that they want it to be molded.”
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Sapsford Brings Classics Performances to Life in New Role
“It’s very rare that you will do a class where you get to read this stuff and then get some actual experience of going through it yourself,” Sapsford said. “It’s an exciting course.”
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Fay Brings Personal Experiences to New Novel
“Being successful in the publishing world requires an enormous amount of luck,” Fay said. “I personally know plenty of good manuscripts that have not been published, and we’ve all read terrible books that have made it through. I feel very lucky to have been able to have the career that I have.”
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