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Welcome wagon

audio slideshow from @BC

With handcarts, humor, and heavy lifting, 250 student volunteers move in 2,000 freshmen.

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Special friend

slideshow from @BC

Images from 1966 to 2008 recall the long and wide-ranging relationship between Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Boston College.

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Upbeat assessment

Boston College Chronicle

"Stronger and more competitive" is how President William P. Leahy, SJ, characterized the University in his September 9 Convocation address.

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Milton marathon

Boston College Minute

Paradise Lost reading, Hovey House library, May 6, 2009.

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Googled: Laura Sen '78

research from @BC

The new CEO guides BJ's Wholesale Club through a challenging economy.

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Red bandanna

video from Boston College Chronicle

Dan Ponsetto, director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, remembers 9/11 hero Welles Crowther '99, for whom the annual Red Bandanna 5K Run is named.


Reconnect

website from the alumni association

At the first-ever AHANA reunion, more than 600 alumni, family, and friends celebrated the Office of AHANA Student Programs' 30-year history. View photos from the weekend, along with articles, recollections, and other archival materials.


Picturing America

article from Boston College Magazine

The McMullen Museum's current exhibition of Civil War–era drawings demonstrates how artists reported the news—or tried to—in the years before photography.


Confidence game

video from Front Row

Edward Altman, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, discussed global credit markets in his keynote address at the 2009 Center for Asset Management Conference.


NEWS ROUNDUP

From The Office of News and Public Affairs

Finance professor Edward Kane urges greater accountability for financial regulators New York Times

McMullen exhibition presents vivid and evocative Civil War drawings Daily News Tribune, Boston Globe

Public service announcement highlights University's innovative approaches to student formation Office of News and Public Affairs

Lynch School professors Dennis Shirley and Andrew Hargreaves urge "bolder path" for federal education policy Boston Globe

Marketing professor Henrik Hagtvedt's study suggests consumers still want luxury Office of News and Public Affairs

University physicists develop metamaterial that steers light beams Nanotechnology Now

Law professor Intisar Rabb named Carnegie Scholar Office of News and Public Affairs

Emotions effect visual perception, according to psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett Science News

The Lynch School's dean Joseph O'Keefe, SJ, envisions Catholic school improvements U.S.Catholic

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