Kathy Lu

Kansas City

Learner, amplifier, success manifestor at Audiencibility! Past: @Amplified2020, a public media project; editress at @kcstar & @roanoketimes. Kitten fosterer😻

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Articles

Hello…Shovelhead! Delivers “Best Of”

2 months ago | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu

This Thursday, just minutes before the show’s scheduled start, Fulton 511 reached capacity as people struggled to find seats, resulting in all the walking room being occupied by standing audience members. Shovelhead’s “Best Of” show happens every three years, presenting the Boston College community with the group’s biggest and most popular sketch comedy pieces.
Energy and Sentimentality Define UPrising’s Annual Showcase

2 months ago | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu

On Saturday, UPrising Dance Crew hosted their annual showcase, the Waves Show, at the Robsham Theater. As audience members filed in 30 minutes before the show began, non-stop chatter and excitement followed. UPrising is focused on an urban, hip-hop influence, incorporating a variety of styles and elements of dance such as concepts, visuals, and acrobatic stunts.
Invest in your growth in 2025 by learning to lead with influence

Nov 14, 2024 | poynter.org | Kathy Lu

“Empowered. Confident. Optimistic. Supported. Recharged.” These are some of the words the October 2024 Lead With Influence cohort used to describe how they were feeling at the end of the four-week program. As the program lead, I was thrilled, because the words reflect some of the training’s main goals — to help participants feel empowered in themselves, to realize they’re not alone, and to return to their jobs re-energized with new skills to try.
BC A Cappella Groups Unite in Fall Showcase

Nov 3, 2024 | bcheights.com | Leah Stitzel |Kathy Lu

On Saturday, Nov. 2, the Robsham Theater Arts Center welcomed five of Boston College’s a cappella groups to its stage for the fall A Cappella Showcase. Despite a small turnout, the groups brought a warm, intimate energy to the theater, and the cheers of family and friends filled the space.
Maddie Mulligan is Chillin’ This Summer with Some Old Soul Music

Sep 8, 2024 | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu

Copy editor Maddie Mulligan and I are friends, but we never talk about music. We talk about Renaissance art—her favorite pieces when we went to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston together one weekend—photography, and occasionally the latest social media trends, but never our music tastes. As two active members of the weekly Sunday 1 p.m. arts-section staff meetings, we were peer pressured—I mean, inspired—by our fellow arts editors’ iEdits and knew we had to jump on this train.
How journalists can shape society through ethical storytelling

Jun 7, 2024 | current.org | Kathy Lu

In a time when Americans are more polarized by politics than ever, when people can access information more easily than ever, and when trust in media is at an all-time low, journalism has the power to be a healing and connecting force for our democracy. To do this, journalists first need to be aware of the power they have as narrators of our society. From story angles to how beats are chosen, journalists shape what audiences pay attention to, Minal Bopaiah says in our recent conversation.
Art Walk: An Open Space for BC Art Students to Share Their Creativity

Apr 28, 2024 | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu

The usually empty Robsham Theater lobby was filled with impressive art pieces from Boston College visual arts students over the weekend, as part of BC Arts Council’s Art Walk exhibition for its annual Arts Festival. “In regards to turnout, I’ve actually seen a lot of people every time I walk through Robsham,” said Brooke Olson, Visual Arts Rep. and WCAS ’25.
BC’s Best Hosts a Small, Yet Energized Audience

Apr 28, 2024 | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu |Sofia Torres

It’s all fun and games until talented bands and singer-songwriters get serious, competing to be crowned Boston College’s Best. Obstacle Monkey and Whistle Rock took home the win at this year’s competition in the band and singer-songwriter categories, respectively. BC’s Best is an annual music competition and a part of the Arts Festival. The competition was hosted in the Mod Lot on Thursday night with bands competing to be the opening act for Neon Trees at Modstock.
WZBC Hosts A Musical Evening at the O’Connell House

Apr 18, 2024 | bcheights.com | Kathy Lu

Cozy, moody, and embellished by twinkly lights, the O’Connell House hosted a spectacle on Thursday night. Boston College’s student radio station WZBC hosted its spring concert at the O’Connell House, featuring Shallow Alcove, Exit 18, and buffchick with her band. Audiences were welcomed into the O’Connell House with a warm fireplace and a merch stand that was selling graphic t-shirts, mug candles, and other merchandise.
Microstructure of stress‐induced martensite in micron‐sized zirconia single crystal spheres

Mar 29, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Deepak Dhariwal |Kathy Lu |Materials Engineering

Martensitic phase transformation of zirconia (ZrO2), when realized from the superelastic effect, has immense potential in energy applications, such as micro-actuation and high-energy dissipation/damping. In this study, martensitic transformation in ZrO2 is studied using a newly developed microscale phase field model, which is scale-independent and contains an averaged gradient term. The model is implemented using the FEniCS package in Python.