The exponential growth in SaaS (software as a service) data poses significant challenges for enterprises worldwide. In a new book, Simon Taylor, a research fellow in the M.S. in Cybersecurity Policy & Governance Program at the Woods College of Advancing Studies, offers an in-depth exploration into these complexities, discussing the vulnerabilities of existing data protection systems as the volume of data in SaaS applications expands. Through real-world illustrations involving renowned entities like the Boston Red Sox, Zebra Technologies, and Bain Capital, provides both illustrative warnings and demonstrative solutions. Taylor is founder and CEO of HYCU, the world’s leading multi-cloud and SaaS backup and recovery software businesses.
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Campus voices against violence
In Voices of Campus Sexual Violence Activists (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), BC Lynch School of Education and Human Development Professor Ana M. Martínez-Alemán and co-author Susan B. Marine share the stories and strategies of college student activists fighting to end sexual violence on campuses. In the book, Gen Z students describe how they use collective mobilization and activism through social media, in addition to long-established campus organizing techniques, in their efforts to eradicate sexual violence. This book highlights the experiences of prominent campus activists and their allies and the policy and practice implications of their movements for campus leaders. Martínez-Alemán and Marine conclude with recommendations for institutional decision-making and practices that incorporate the experiences and opinions of student activists. The authors discuss their book on this Student Affairs Now podcast.
Formative Theological Education
A new book from faculty members in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry offers a guide to the art of theological education from the perspective of formative education sensibilities and commitments. Formative Theological Education (Paulist Press, 2023), co-edited by Professor of the Practice of Theology Colleen Griffith and Associate Professor of Theology and Education Hosffman Ospino, was officially launched at a recent campus celebration that marked the STM’s 15th anniversary. In addition to Griffith and Ospino, the other STM contributors are John Baldovin, S.J.; Andrew Davis; Thomas Groome; Callid Keefe-Perry; Melissa Kelley; Rev. Richard Lennan; and Theresa O’Keefe. Read more about the book from BC News.
Beautiful noise
John Cage was a pioneering, inspiring composer who believed all sound—from the crash of a slamming door to the whir of a blender to the whoosh of the wind—was music. Boston College graduate Lisa Rogers introduces youngsters to Cage in the new picture book, Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage (Schwartz/Random, 2023). Cage was a nonconforming musician who found music was everywhere and stayed true to his artistic vision. The book is illustrated by Il Sung Na. Rogers is a children’s book author and elementary school library teacher whose previous publications include the award-winning 16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow” and Hound Won’t Go. She talks about how she came to write Beautiful Noise in this interview.
Disability justice
Persons with disability make up at least 15 percent of the global population, yet disability justice is an underdeveloped area of theological ethics, according to School of Theology and Ministry Professor of Moral Theology Mary Jo Iozzio, author of the new book, Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective (Georgetown University Press, 2023). Her book is a primer on disability ethics that offers practical strategies based on Catholic social teaching to inspire deliberate action for an increasingly inclusive and participatory Church and society. BC Libraries recently featured a video of Iozzio discussing her book.
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Theological Book of the Year
Ligita Ryliškytė, SJE, a visiting assistant professor of systematic theology in the BC Theology Department, was awarded Theological Book of the Year by the European Society for Catholic Theology. She was honored for her book, Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2023). In Why the Cross?, Sister Ryliškytė addresses what is arguably the most important and profound question in systematic theology: What does it mean for humankind to be saved by the cross? Offering a constructive account of the atonement that avoids pitting God’s saving love against divine justice, she provides a biblically grounded and philosophically disciplined theology of the cross that responds to the exigencies of postmodern secular culture. Her book reveals a Christology of fundamental significance for contemporary systematic theology, as well as for the fields of theological ethics and Christian spirituality. Sister Ryliškytė is a native of Lithuania and a member of an Ignatian community, the Sisters of the Eucharistic Jesus.
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Boston Ball
In his latest book, Boston Ball (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Boston College graduate Clayton Trutor tells the story of how Basketball Hall of Fame coaches Rick Pitino, Jim Calhoun, and Gary Williams—who collectively won six national championships and reached 13 Final Fours—cut their teeth coaching in the college gyms of Boston during the 1970s and early 1980s. Toiling in relative obscurity, Pitino (Boston University), Calhoun (Northeastern), and Williams (BC) played a significant role in the making of modern college basketball, igniting a renaissance of the “city game,” a style of play built on fast-breaking up-tempo offense, pressure defense, and board crashing. Trutor holds a Ph.D. in history from Boston College and teaches at Norwich University in Vermont. He writes about college football and basketball for SB Nation and is the author of the award-winning book Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports.
Political Heaney
Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole, an award-winning journalist, author, and leading public intellectual, will present “Political Heaney” at Boston College on November 16 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. O’Toole was recently appointed official biographer of the late Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. His talk will open “Seamus Heaney: Afterlives,” Boston College’s international symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the poet’s death. O’Toole is the author numerous books, including We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland; Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; and Ship of Fools: How Stupidity And Corruption Sank The Celtic Tiger. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a winner of the European Press Prize and the Orwell Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10,000 years, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. O’Toole’s lecture is presented by the BC Lowell Humanities Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the BC Irish Studies Program and with the support of an ILA Major Grant.
In the air and on the sea, pollution goes under the radar
International shipping and aviation stand as two major sources of global greenhouse gas emissions not governed by national inventories and the U.N. Paris Climate agreement. Since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, regulating greenhouse gas emissions from these two industries has been assigned to the International Maritime Organization in London and the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal. Yet, they have not met their mandates in the face of global pressure to act, concludes Boston College Political Science Professor and climate policy expert David Deese in his new book Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions: Governing the Global Climate Crisis (Routledge, 2023). Deese’s book reveals why these two U.N. agencies have largely failed in their efforts and highlights the most promising emerging and feasible technologies to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ships that ply the seas and aircraft that travel the skies. Read more on BC News.
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American Roulette
Eight authors have collaborated on a new novel that tells a story about gun violence and its aftermath in a unique way. American Roulette (Milford House/Sunbury Press, 2023) opens on one unremarkable day in an average U.S. town where a stream of people make their way to a mall to shop, work, keep appointments, or catch a movie. At 5:17 p.m., one person’s actions will change the lives of all the others. American Roulette tells the story of eight of the people involved. Each characters was created by one of the book’s authors—one of whom is Boston College graduate Pat LaMarche. LaMarche is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, author, and former Green Party vice presidential candidate. She is known for her advocacy work on behalf of those experiencing homelessness and poverty. Her previous publications include Still Left Out in America: The State of Homelessness in the United States and Daddy, What’s the Middle Class? Her writings have appeared in the Huffington Post, Bangor Daily News (Maine), and Bucks County Beacon (Pennsylvania).
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