Battle plans
Video from @BC
On November 21, the students in Jason Asprey’s “Theater Skills: Stage Combat” class took up arms.
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Christmas times
Audio slideshow from @BC
Holiday scenes across the University from recent years.
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Gabelli Presidential Scholars
Article from Boston College Chronicle
The 23-year-old scholarship program for the University’s most accomplished incoming students has been renamed in recognition of a gift from the Gabelli Family Foundation.
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Note worthy
Audio from @BC
T.J. Hurley, Class of 1885, gave the University “For Boston.” He also wrote songs about the baseball team, the local trolley, and spiritual succor. Here, music department students, faculty, and staff perform selections.
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Smarter in the City
Video from Boston College Law School
Boston College Law School students provide legal aid to tech entrepreneurs in the underserved neighborhood of Roxbury.
Research Day: Disease
Video from Front Row
During the University’s inaugural Research Day symposium on December 11—devoted, this year, to research with the potential to benefit global public health—biology professor Welkin Johnson, Ferris Professor of Physics Michael Naughton, and nursing assistant professor Melissa Sutherland discussed their respective disease-related studies.
eColloquia
Newsletter from the Lynch School of Education
Associate professor Katherine L. McNeill’s efforts to redesign science education; undergraduate research projects; and a speech by Joan Lombardi, M.Ed.’73, on the status of early childhood education are among stories in the Winter 2014 issue.
The Birth of Jesus: Two Gospel Narratives
Online course from the Church in the 21st Century Center and the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning
This free, self-paced mini-tutorial, written and narrated by Philip A. Cunningham, former executive director of the University’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, has been visited more than 100,000 times since its 2006 launch.
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School of Social Work: Governor-elect names Associate Professor Marylou Sudders health and human services chief. Boston Globe, more | Associate Professor Westy Egmont, Immigrant Integration Lab director, interviewed on immigration reform. CNN
Law School: ranks 17th on Business Insider list of Top 50 Law Schools in America. BC entry | Op-eds: Dean Vincent Rougeau writes in Ferguson aftermath. Boston Globe | Assistant Professor Kari Hong advocates abolishing grand juries. Boston Globe
Professor of Political Science Peter Skerry writes on what illegal immigrants want. Weekly Standard
Lynch School's City Connects program supports Boston students in and out of the classroom. Boston Globe
Q&A: Ferris Professor of Physics Michael Naughton, Ph.D. graduate, discuss their nanomaterials research. International Innovation (free registration required)
Canisius Professor, Jesuit Institute Director James Keenan, S.J., writes on conference organized by global network Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, which he founded. DotCommonweal
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