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Boston College celebrated interdisciplinary research and innovation, and the breadth of scholarship within the University community, at Boston College Research Day, held October 13 in Hayden Hall.

The daylong event, co-hosted by the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, included talks by 自慰视频 administrators, keynotes by Nobel Prize winner Moungi Bawendi and Science magazine Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp, and faculty and student presentations.
In his welcoming remarks, Dunwei Wang, interim Seidner Family Executive Director of the Schiller Institute, noted that the event held special significance, serving as a prelude to the inauguration of 自慰视频鈥檚 new president, John T. Butler, S.J., which took place October 15-17.

Winston Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley noted that he had pitched the 鈥淏ack to the Future鈥� idea of a Research Day to Wang and Deluca Chair of Biology Thomas Chiles to 鈥渆ngage with the spirit of those advancing research and scholarship on campus,鈥� similar to an event that had been organized during 2014-2016.

鈥淭his day is a way of marking this moment in the University鈥檚 and the institute鈥檚 history by linking with the spirit of the Inauguration Celebration,鈥� said Quigley. 听鈥淭hat sense of generative possibility鈥攊magining the frontiers of research鈥攊s the hope, and that spirit is very much in play today.

鈥淭he work and value of the research university animate our vocational commitment to push on the frontiers of science, is what holds us together as an academic community. The question then is how do we chart a course at 自慰视频 to emerge as an even stronger research university over the next few years?听 Doubling down on our commitment to research, to engaging with scholarship for the common good, has never been more important.鈥�

自慰视频 School of Social Work Dean Gautam Yadama, Associate Professor of Economics and Schiller Institute core faculty member Edson Severnini, and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Yi Ming, a Schiller Institute professor of climate science and society, also were part of the leadership for Research Day.

Chiles introduced Bawendi, best known for his breakthrough research that made it possible to alter quantum dots according to size, allowing them to achieve predictable properties. This paved the way to the development of large-scale technological applications such as light-emitting diodes (LEDS), solar cells, photodetectors, photoconductors, lasers, and biomedical imaging.

鈥淲e are where we are today because of the curiosity and innovation, and the relentless progress of basic science over the last century,鈥� said Bawendi. 听鈥淚f you look at any field of science, and you think about where we were 20 years ago, it鈥檚 unbelievable. As was noted earlier, basic science is under assault, but progress rests on basic science. If we don鈥檛 keep investing in curiosity-driven science, the pipeline of progress will run dry.鈥�

Bawendi, the MIT Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry, outlined his team鈥檚 work on advances in the chemical production of high-quality quantum dots, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023. He offered a simple and clear message for students: 鈥淪tay curious, keep learning, be flexible, don鈥檛 give up, and enjoy what you鈥檙e doing.鈥�

Thorp, a professor of chemistry and medicine at George Washington University, encouraged those present not to despair about the political and social turmoil facing science nowadays.

鈥淚t鈥檚 easy to get down in the dumps about how people have lost confidence in science because we see people who don鈥檛 want to get vaccinated, and who still don鈥檛 think that climate change is real,鈥� said Thorp. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 a small portion of the American public who feel that way. Seventy-six percent of adults still have confidence in scientists to act in the best interest of the public.

鈥淎ttacks on science are being used as leverage to attack universities: 70 percent of Americans think that higher education is going in the wrong direction. If we don鈥檛 solve the problems facing higher education, science will continue to struggle. But my message to students is, keep science going, even when it鈥檚 difficult.鈥�