The Heights

BC Declaration Urges UN To Curb Global Plastics Pollution

Annika Engelbrecht • December 8, 2024

At a Boston College conference that highlighted plastic pollution as a social justice crisis, participants presented a declaration to the United Nations advocating for a Global Plastics Treaty.

Baik Draws Attention to Enforced Disappearances and Human Rights

Ethan Ambrose and Nikita Osadchiy • October 6, 2024

State-sponsored abductions and political imprisonments remain serious violations of human rights warranting accountability, said Tae-Ung Baik, former director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii.

Why We Should Understand the Enemies of the Western World

Jose Garcia • February 28, 2024

The grand strategy of the world chessboard shifts and changes every day with the development of new interests and political campaigns. It’s foolish to dismiss attempts to understand fellow players because of a supposed moral high ground.

Brown Unpacks the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster

Mukund Rachakonda • October 27, 2023

The Chernobyl disaster triggered far-reaching social, political, and economic ramifications that shaped today’s world, according to Kate Brown, a professor of science, technology, and society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BC Invited to UN Conference on Climate Change

Julia Landwehr • October 24, 2021

For the first time in the school’s history, Boston College was invited to attend COP26, a two-week United Nations conference on climate change. A group of BC students and faculty will join 20,000 people from around the world in Glasgow, Scotland for the conference.

Rice Shares Family History, U.N. Experience

Rachel Phelan • October 14, 2019

Susan Rice said that it is rare for black women to ascend to the positions that she has held.

Former President of Ireland Lectures on Climate Change

Gavin Zhang and Sarah Mansky • September 15, 2019

Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, connected the fight against climate change to human rights in her Wednesday Lowell Series lecture.

Model UN Hosts In-Depth Look at Yemeni Civil War

Nate Hiriak • December 2, 2018

A panel discussed the humanitarian crisis evolving in Yemen as a result of the civil war between the Houthi movement and the Yemeni government in an event sponsored by Boston College Model United Nations (BCMUN) on Tuesday.

Observatory on Public Health Begins First Project

Owen Fahy • November 18, 2018

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Public Health has begun its first project, which will focus on the burden of disease caused by air pollution in India and will be completed in conjunction with 20-25 other scientists from around the world.

BC Launches Global Observatory on Pollution and Health

Owen Fahy • September 30, 2018

Boston College announced that it has created a Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to raise awareness about the problems surrounding pollution. The observatory will be directed by Philip J. Landrigan.

Samantha Power Outlines Four Premises that Influence Foreign Policy

Celia Carbone • March 24, 2018

“We need to bring in professionals from all walks of life—diplomacy can’t be left to just the foreign service types,” Samantha Power said.

Political Figures Samantha Power, Ed Markey to Lecture at BC

Colleen Martin • March 14, 2018

Samantha Power graduated from Yale University in 1992 and Harvard Law School in 1999, and Ed Markey, a Double Eagle, graduated from BC in 1968 and BC Law in 1972.