PRIMARY SOURCES

Reflections

Website from the Alumni Association

Fr. Michael Himes, professor of theology, leads an online Lenten retreat for alumni and friends of Boston College.

Solasta, chapter one

Article from Boston College Magazine

The life and times of an invention that was going to transform solar power (and may yet do so).

A new voice

Video from the Theater Department

Megan Crosby '12 talks about her one-act play, Chase 304, produced as part of the theater department's New Voices program.

Front-line science

Video from the Connell School of Nursing

Connell School professors describe their research projects, from parsing the neurobiology of eating disorders to identifying biochemical predictors of disease in premature infants.

Petersburg

Video from Front Row

In a Lowell Humanities lecture, Wesleyan University professor Richard Slotkin, who studies violence in American history, recounts the Battle of the Crater (1864).

NEWS ROUNDUP

From The Office of News and Public Affairs

BC students spend Spring Break in service with Habitat for Humanity. A glimpse at one site through Huntington, WV Herald-Dispatch photos: Gallery 1, Gallery 2, Gallery 3

Q&A: Law School Assistant Professor Intisar Rabb on Sharia, the ideal law of God according to Islam. Center for American Progress

Abstract art takes talent, according to study by BC psychologists. Sampling of coverage: Toronto Star, New York Times Arts Beat blog, Psychology Today

Two BC scientists named among the Top 100 experts in their fields. More

English Professor Paul Lewis writes on a Boston-based ABC pilot featuring Edgar Allan Poe as detective. Boston Globe article

Parents of NBC star, 1993 alumna Amy Poehler interviewed by the Wall Street Journal

Q&A: Carroll School Dean Andy Boynton, The Idea Hunter co-author, on successful innovation. Inc.

BC among Princeton Review's "100 Best Value Colleges" for 2011. USA Today, Princeton Review

Melanie Graf '11 one of two students nationwide named Hellenic Legacy Scholars. Greek Reporter USA

Contributions of long-serving EVP, the late Frank Campanella, highlighted. Chronicle of Higher Education

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