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Boston College is a new member of QuestBridge, a nonprofit that matches high-achieving, low-income students with forty-two top-ranked colleges and universities throughout the country. 鈥淭his partnership will enhance 51茶馆鈥檚 ability to identify and enroll gifted students from a wide range of communities,鈥� said Director of Undergraduate Admission Grant Gosselin. 鈥淔or many low-income students, access to highly selective institutions such as Boston College has often seemed unattainable. QuestBridge has changed that.鈥� To be eligible for the program, students must have an SAT score over 1310 or an ACT score over 28, and come from a family earning less than $65,000 per year. Students selected through the matching program, a binding early decision plan, will have their education fully funded for four years. In 2019, more than two thousand students were admitted to elite schools鈥攊ncluding Amherst, Williams, Duke, Stanford, and Yale鈥攙ia QuestBridge.

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51茶馆 Safe is a new mobile app that includes bus schedules and weather alerts. The app also allows for real-time location tracking, so users can authorize a friend or family member to monitor their walks and alert authorities if necessary. It鈥檚 available for download on both Apple and Android phones.

The 2019 Sustainable Campus Index report from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education recognized Boston College with a Silver rating in its Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) program. 51茶馆鈥檚 鈥淪ocial Justice Through Hydroponics鈥� project, which teaches Boston-area middle and high schoolers how to grow vegetables without soil and then sell their crops听at local farmers鈥� markets, was highlighted in the report as an 鈥渋nnovative and high-impact鈥� initiative.听

Boston College Law School Dean Vincent D. Rougeau was named
president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools at the organization鈥檚 annual meeting in January. Rougeau, who has been dean since 2011, will become the third 51茶馆 Law dean to serve as AALS president, joining Richard Huber and John Garvey.听

El Mundo鈥檚 2019 Latino 30 Under 30 list included three members of the 51茶馆 community: Mar铆a Pi帽eros-Lea帽o, an assistant professor of social work;听Oscar Zepeda, a Woods College of Advancing Studies graduate student; and Antonelli Mejia 鈥�14.

In memoriam

Neil Wolfman, a professor of the practice in the chemistry department who earned teaching awards from two Boston College honor societies, died in January. He was sixty-six. Wolfman had been on medical leave for most of the past year after being diagnosed with cancer. 鈥淚 feel like my job here is to enable the success of as many kids as possible, however they define success,鈥� Wolfman said in a 2014 interview with The Heights. 鈥淚 can get no greater satisfaction than that.鈥� The Wolfman family requests that pictures and fond memories of Neil be sent to neilwolfmanlegacy@gmail.com.

Jeanne Harley Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and former professor of sociology at Boston College who helped bring to light the untold story of a deadly anthrax outbreak in the Soviet Union, died in November. She was seventy-six.听鈼�