Core Fellows

电子游戏软件的核心电子游戏正规平台员项目为来自各个人文学科的早期职业学者提供了机会, social sciences, and natural sciences to develop their research and teaching potential. Core Fellows contribute to the Core Curriculum, the foundational, 所有电子游戏软件的学生都要完成15门文科课程,这是他们在耶稣会学院接受本科教育的一部分, Catholic institution. Salary and research support are competitive. 首次任命的任期为一年,经有利审查可延长至三年.

During one semester, each Core Fellow teaches hands-on, project-based labs for interdisciplinary Complex Problem courses, team-taught by Boston College faculty. 他们在气候变化等主题上与经验丰富的教学导师一起工作, race and gender, migration, and design and innovation. During the other semester, 每位核心电子游戏正规平台员设计并教授一门与另一位核心电子游戏正规平台员教授的课程相匹配的“持久问题”课程. 核心电子游戏正规平台员也有机会在他们的领域教授选修课.

在第一年,核心电子游戏正规平台员参加培训并参加课程设计研讨会. Throughout the program, 他们还参加旨在支持他们的学术追求以及成为专注于全人教育的杰出教师的会议. Required specializations vary from year to year. 候选人应表现出杰出的跨学科电子游戏正规平台和教学技能, display a capacity for originality and innovation, and be open to teaching undergraduate students holistically.

Current Core Fellows


Courtney Humphries

Courtney Humphries

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

Courtney Humphries是环境电子游戏正规平台的核心电子游戏正规平台员/客座助理教授. She received a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Massachusetts Boston. 她的电子游戏正规平台重点是城市基础设施历史与当前气候变化适应规划之间的联系, particularly around the governance of waterfront development. During her PhD program, 她是麻省大学波士顿分校国家科学基金会资助的综合电子游戏正规平台生教育和电子游戏正规平台培训项目(IGERT)的电子游戏正规平台员,主要电子游戏正规平台海岸和社区, 也是波士顿公共图书馆利文塔尔地图和教育中心的公共电子游戏正规平台员. Courtney is also an award-winning science writer, journalist, 他曾为《电子游戏软件》等众多出版物撰写有关科学和城市问题的文章, the Atlantic, Science, Nature, Technology Review, Harvard Magazine, and Nautilus. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Washington and an M.S. in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is also a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.


Vena Offen

Vena Offen

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

Vena Offen是环境电子游戏正规平台的核心电子游戏正规平台员/客座助理教授. She received a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Connecticut. 她的电子游戏正规平台考察了人类与沿海环境之间的相互作用, focusing on marine pollution and commercially important shellfish. During her Ph.D. 她是美国环保署STAR电子游戏正规平台员和法国夏多布里昂STEM电子游戏正规平台员,因为她对新兴污染物的电子游戏正规平台, including the effects of nanoparticles on the development of oyster larvae. 目前的项目包括塑料污染对牡蛎和贻贝生理的影响. Vena also holds a B.S. in Biology from Pacific University, and a M.S. 俄勒冈健康与科学大学环境科学与工程学士学位.


Luke Perreault

Luke Perreault

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering

Luke Perreault是一名核心电子游戏正规平台员/工程客座助理教授. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University (2021), and a B.S. (2015) and M.Eng. (2016) in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research intersects biomedical engineering and cellular agriculture, through development of sustainable, plant-based biomaterials for engineered tissues. During his Ph.D. he was an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow, 电子游戏正规平台心脏组织重塑中与年龄相关的变化可能为治疗发展提供信息. He was also a fellow of the Tufts Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT), training in interdisciplinary teaching and pedagogy. 

Luke之前在BC大学工程系做博士后, under Department Chair Prof. Glenn Gaudette, 开发将农业废弃物重新利用为养殖肉类生产的可食用支架的方法. 倡导该部门致力于以人为本的工程方法, 他喜欢帮助学生追求自己的想法和科学问题, 同时强调工程师在相互联系的全球社区中考虑其工作的更广泛影响的重要性.


Héctor E Rodriguez-Simmonds

Héctor E Rodriguez-Simmonds

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering

hsamctor E Rodriguez-Simmonds是工程学院的核心电子游戏正规平台员/客座助理教授. Hector received his PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue University. Hector参与了计算机工程领域的各种电子游戏正规平台项目,学生的工程身份,以及指导学生选择工程专业的价值观. Hector is driven by the tension between human & 社会关注和技术焦点传统的工程问题解决方法. 赫克托尔利用关键的方法论和方法来进行和分析电子游戏正规平台, and exploring embodied cognition.


Hongyan Yang (杨鸿雁)

Hongyan Yang (杨鸿雁)

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in History

Hongyan Yang (杨鸿雁) is a Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in History, (Digital) Humanities, Comparative Migration and Ethnic Studies. Trained as an urban planner, cultural geographer, and architectural historian, 她的跨学科电子游戏正规平台考虑了亚裔美国人经历中未被探索的空间和物质维度. Intellectually invested in ethnic foodways and immigration history, she explores how Asian immigrants’ culinary traditions, cultural sensibilities, 复杂的身份为美国的文化景观赋予了新的意义. She is currently working on several research projects, 包括她的第一本书手稿《电子游戏软件》, 这是一个博物馆项目,与建筑历史学会(Society of Architectural Historians)和库珀休伊特博物馆(Copper Hewitt)合作,记录华裔美国建筑师的贡献, Smithsonian Design Museum, and an oral history project, “Places of Their Own,由美国国家人文与口述历史协会资助. In addition to her research, 她发展了以社区为中心的亚洲和亚裔美国建筑教学, as well as professional practices in historic preservation. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Sophie Coe Prize Honorable Mention, the Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassadors Award, 以及美国太平洋海岸地理学家委员会区域电子游戏正规平台优秀奖. 她最近的作品被刊登在《电子游戏软件》(2020)和《电子游戏正规平台》(2019)上。. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture in the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Program from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.


John Yargo

John Yargo

Core Fellow • Visiting Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities

约翰·雅戈是环境人文学科的核心电子游戏正规平台员/客座助理教授. His dissertation, Saturnine Ecologies: Environmental Catastrophe in the Early Modern World, a study of literary and artistic representations of sea storms, earthquakes and forest fires during the little Ice Age, won the 2023 J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize. 约翰在马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校获得博士学位,在米尔萨普斯学院获得古典电子游戏正规平台和英语学士学位. His scholarship has been published in Shakespeare Studies, Early Theatre, Studies in Philology, and the Journal for Early Modern Studies. Before receiving his PhD, 约翰曾在约旦科技大学担任和平队志愿者,在清迈大学担任讲师.


Previous Core Fellows have moved onto:

Babson College

Barnard College

Boston College

Columbia University

Davidson College

Denison University

Duke University

Loyola University Chicago

Miami University, Ohio

U. S. Naval War College

The Ohio State University

State University of New York, Potsdam

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Dallas

Virginia Tech

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