November 7: Former U.S. Senator from Maine George Mitchell (center) talked with provost David Quigley (left) and vice president for human resources David Trainor in Connolly House before delivering the keynote address on the opening day of International Education Week, a 16-year-old nationwide initiative of the U.S. Department of State that, at Boston College, is organized by the Office of International Programs. In 1998, Mitchell was the architect of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland.

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November 11: Members of the Joint Services ROTC Color Guard—from left, Matthew Kenny ’20, obscured (Army), Jack Thompson ’20 (Army), Dean Hochman ’20 (Navy), Kaitlin Kowker ’20 (Navy), and Michael Buzy ’18 (Army)—during the 16th annual Boston College veterans remembrance ceremony on the Burns Library lawn.

Photograph by Frank Curran

November 15: At the dress rehearsal for the theater department production of Molière’s satire The Misanthrope (1666) were, from left, Noelle Scarlett ’18, Brett Murphy ’18, Sarah Lambert ’18, Nick Swancott ’19, and Julia James ’17. Theresa Lang, a lecturer in theater, directed.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

November 16: Daniel Chou ’17 worked the Greek station for Dining Services in the Stuart Hall dining room during International Food Night, part of International Education Week. He prepared the “Greek Festival Wrap,” a pita with tzatziki sauce, feta cheese, diced tomatoes and onions, and a choice of chicken, beef, pork, lamb, or grilled vegetables.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

November 17: Eric Butler, MBA’12 (right), founder of the New York-based theater investment company Final Bow Productions, was one of 21 alumni at the annual Career Night for the Arts networking event in the Heights Room. Speaking with him are (from left) Cassie Pearson ’20, Ryan Gardner ’19, Margaux Villeneuve ’18, and Elizabeth Bennett ’18.

Photograph by Frank Curran

November 17: Members of the Boston-based Noor Ensemble performed during Campus Ministry’s annual Multifaith Thanksgiving Celebration in the Heights Room.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 17: “The 2016 Election: A Faculty and Student Discussion” featured panelists (from left) Rhonda Frederick, associate professor of English; David Hopkins, assistant professor of political science; Cynthia Lyerly, associate professor of history; C. Shawn McGuffey, associate professor of sociology; and Juliet Schor (not shown), professor of sociology. Associate professor of history Julian Bourg moderated the conversation held in Devlin 008.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 17: More than 100 students attended “The 2016 Election: A Faculty and Student Discussion” sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs. Students’ questions touched on topics ranging from third parties to minority rights to the role of media to how best to be politically involved. Start with local government, suggested more than one faculty respondent.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 18: At work in the ultra clean laboratory in Devlin Hall are (from left) Anne Haws ’19, earth and environmental sciences department chair Ethan Baxter, graduate student Thomas Farrell, and Justin Mistikawy ’17. The facility is part of a new center for isotope geochemistry.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 29: The 15-person hip-hop dance group Phaymus—including, from left, Shea North ’18, Elliot Na ’20, Akeda Riley ’18, Euna Lee ’20, and Katie McGirney ’18—ran through a routine in the Brighton Dance Studio during Week of Dance, which featured 10 student-run workshops and performances by 16 student troupes.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

November 30: Loretta Sweet Jemmott, vice president for health and health equity at Drexel University, delivered the Connell School of Nursing’s fall Pinnacle Lecture in the Murray Room. Her topic was effective nurse leadership.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

December 5: The annual symposium “Advancing Research and Scholarship at Boston College” focused this year on “The Environment and Society.” Nathaniel Stinnett, JD’05, founder of the Environmental Voter Project, gave the keynote in the Heights Room, followed by faculty and student presentations. A panel discussion on environmental justice included (from left) Tiziana Dearing, professor of macro practice in the School of Social Work; Juliet Schor, professor of sociology; Judith Vessey, the Lelia Holden Carroll Professor in Nursing; Holly VandeWall, assistant professor of the practice of philosophy; David Deese, professor of political science; and Corinne Wong, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

December 5: Nathaniel Stinnett, JD’05, of the nonprofit Environmental Voter Project, described the historically low voter turnout among citizens who claim the environment as a top priority. The “Advancing Research” symposium was hosted by the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties and the Vice Provost for Research and Academic Planning.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

December 5: One of nine students who presented at the symposium, Samantha Dow, a graduate student in earth and environmental sciences, exhibited her research on “Sediment mobilized during the 20th century in the South River watershed, Western Massachusetts.”

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

December 6: The undergraduate group BC Bells performed “O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and “For Boston” at the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony, held on O’Neill Plaza.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

December 6: The Heightsmen a capella group made an appearance at the tree lighting, as did Santa Claus (and Baldwin dressed as Santa) and a sculptor who carved a block of ice into a replica of Gasson Hall. Students drank cocoa and wrote cards to children hospitalized for the holidays.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

December 6: At 6:00 p.m., University President William P. Leahy, SJ, threw the switch to light the tree, pictured against the backdrop of Gasson Hall.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

September 8: Members of the Class of 2020 assembled by residence hall on Linden Lane for the annual First Flight procession to Convocation at Conte Forum.

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September 8: First Year Academic Convocation speaker Steve Pemberton ’89, H’15, talked with students following his address in Conte Forum. The vice president of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance, Pemberton is also the author of the memoir A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home, which the University distributed last summer to all members of the Class of 2020.

Photograph by Suzanne Camarata Ball

September 8: University President William P. Leahy, SJ, celebrated the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, which marks the beginning of the academic year, on O’Neill Plaza. Also at the altar were vice president and University Secretary Terrence Devino, SJ (left), and vice president for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, SJ.

Photograph by Yiting Chen

September 9: Students regarded Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Articles from the Apostles’ Creed, a Belgian tapestry dating to around 1500, at the McMullen Museum of Art’s new home on the Brighton Campus. More than 600 attended Art After Dark, the first in a series of events planned for students in the newly remodeled building at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue. The museum’s current exhibition, Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, runs through December 11.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

September 9: Aaron Horne ’17 and Felida Milhomme ’17 pored over the exhibition catalogue on the second floor of the McMullen Museum.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

September 12: University Health Services staff in their new headquarters, located in the south wing of Thomas More Apartments, the new undergraduate residence hall at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue. From left are staff nurses Maureen Mullowney and Caroline Faherty; nurse manager Madelyn Rivera, ANP; staff nurse Theresa Barba ’80, MS’02; medical aides Angie Paulino and Yojaira Gonzalez; physician Amy Costa, MD; nurse practitioner Constance O’Connor, ANP; University Health Services director Thomas Nary, MD; and staff nurse Cathy McCassie. The 12,000-square-foot facility includes a 10-bed healthcare unit.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

September 13: Lindsay Brown ’18 talked with Steve Walker of the U.S. Navy Systems Civilian Workforce during the Career Center’s annual Fall Career and Internship Fair in Conte Forum. The fair drew more than 2,000 students, along with recruiters from more than 140 potential employers.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

September 16: Dancing on O’Neill Plaza marked the start of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15), as did an outdoor buffet of quesadillas, empanadas, maduros, and more. The Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center continued its annual series of lectures (which this year included Mexican Consul General Emilio Rabasa and TV producer Pili Montilla ’00) and panel discussions (e.g., “The Fight For Civil Rights, Social Justice, and Labor Equality,” on October 11) and sponsored a student art exhibition in O’Neill Library.

Photograph by Christopher Huang

September 21: Priya Atiyeh ’18 (in pea costume) talked with Amanda Ilaria ’20 and Brendan McInerney ’20 on O’Neill Plaza during the annual Healthapalooza. Food tastings, massages, and information about health and well-being programs on campus were provided by the Office of Health Promotion, a division of Student Affairs.

Photograph by Frank Curran

September 26: Mexican Consul General Emilio Rabassa discussed “U.S. and Mexico: A Strong and Profitable Partnership” in the Fulton Honors Library. His visit was cosponsored by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, the Office of International Programs, Boston College Law School International Programs, the International Studies Program, the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, and the undergraduate, student-run Latin American Business Club of Boston College.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

September 26: Thomas Mogan, associate vice president and dean of students, and Kathleen Sullivan, assistant director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center, paid a House Call to freshmen Sofia Farhadi (center left) and Cheuk-Lam Lo (center right) of Xavier Hall. This is the second year of the initiative sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Students, in which University staff and administrators—100 volunteers in all—fan out through the freshman residences to welcome new students.

Photograph by Frank Curran

September 28: Craig Ford, a Ph.D. student in theology, and Isra Hussain ’17 were among the four student panelists at “Speak, Stand, Sit or Scream: How Young People Engage Politics and the World in 2016,” sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and held in Fulton 511.

Photograph by Frank Curran

September 29: Speaking in Robsham Theater, actor Chris O’Donnell ’92 opened the 10th season of Agape Latte, a student-run series supported by the Church in the 21st Century Center and the Office of Campus Ministry, in which University faculty, staff, and alumni share personal stories of faith and formation.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

September 29: The University Chorale, joined by students from the St. Columbkille Partnership School (pre-K through eighth grade), and led by director John Finney, performed at a dinner celebrating the successful conclusion of the University’s Light the World campaign that brought in more than $1.6 billion in gifts. The event was held in a pavilion erected next to the new McMullen Museum of Art on the Brighton Campus.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

September 30: Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth headlined the 24th annual Pops on the Heights Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala in Conte Forum, accompanied by the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Student performers included the University Chorale and the Screaming Eagles Marching Band.

Photograph by Rose Lincoln

September 30: The Pops on the Heights gala raised a record $9 million for undergraduate financial aid.

Photograph by Rose Lincoln

October 4: John W. Padberg, SJ, delivered the second annual Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies. His talk, in the Boston Room of Corcoran Commons, was titled “And Then What?: The Jesuits after their Restoration (1814 . . . ).”

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

October 6: University President William P. Leahy, SJ, with Newton mayor Setti Warren ’93 and Newton commissioner of health and human services Deborah Youngblood in the Yawkey Center at the launch of Economic Growth For All, a program that pairs Boston College faculty with Newton city officials to explore issues of income inequality.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

October 6: Donna Brazile (left), interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Mary Matalin, a former Republican presidential advisor, discussed “Women in Washington: Political Leadership Today” in Robsham Theater. Paula Ebben ’89, an anchor for CBS News Boston, served as moderator. The conversation was sponsored by the Council for Women of Boston College.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

March 18: Peace Corps executive director Carrie Hessler-Radelet and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts (whose great-uncle President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in March 1961), spoke in the Heights Room at a celebration of the volunteer program’s 55th anniversary. Current Peace Corps volunteer Anne Gillian Freedman ’13 addressed the audience via Skype, from Peru.

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March 19: Maura Lester McSweeney ’17 (seated, center) was awarded the 2016 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship, which provides up to $25,000 of senior-year tuition to a junior who has “demonstrated superior achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the Hispanic/Latino Community.” McSweeney’s parents, Anne McSweeney ’79 and Mark Lester, are seated at left. At right is her roommate, Jacquelyn Andalcio ’17. In line to congratulate McSweeney are (from left) fellow juniors Maria Fernanda Castillo, Danielle Harrington, Kim Zakka, and Alexandra Quiñónez.

Photograph by Justin Knight

March 22: Paul Farmer, physician and cofounder of Partners in Health, delivered the inaugural lecture of the University’s Park Street Corporation Speaker Series in Health, Humanities, and Ethics. His topic was “Universal Health Care? From Slogan to Mantra.” The event took place in Robsham Theater.

Photograph by Frank Curran

March 22: At a Lynch School of Education (LSOE) symposium in the Murray Room, Boston’s Superintendent of Public Schools Tommy Chang talked about his first 100 days on the job and joined LSOE professors (from left) Maria Estela Brisk and Mary Walsh for a discussion. Also on the panel were Catherine Wong, director of LSOE’s urban outreach initiatives, and Abidemi Oyedele ’04, M.Ed.’07, Ed.D.’12, leadership effectiveness director of the Lynch Leadership Academy, Boston College’s training program for local principals and aspiring principals.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

March 23: Gregory Fulgione, P’86 (wearing hat), with his arm around Eagle EMS volunteer Nicholas Favazza ’18, one of three student EMTs who helped save Fulgione’s life when he went into cardiac arrest during a football game in Alumni Stadium last fall. Also in attendance at the event in the Heights Room honoring first responders were (standing, from left) EMS volunteers Andrew Bourque ’18 and Kevin Zirko ’16; and members of the Fulgione family, including (standing) Lynne-Ellen (Fulgione) Garcia ’86.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

March 29: The Boston College Chorale performed four songs, including the Irish national anthem in Irish, at a presentation of music, dance, and verse held in Gasson Hall’s Irish Room to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916. Pictured (from left) are Jacob Harcar ’17 (partially obscured), James Breen ’17, Andrew Goodwin ’18, Abigail Kopec ’16, Michael Rolincik ’16, Thomas Hull ’18, and Kyung won Seo ’17.

Photograph by Justin Knight

March 29: Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, associate vice president of alumni relations, led a roundtable discussion in Vanderslice Hall’s Cabaret Room as part of “Rise,” a mentoring program that pairs small groups of senior women with female faculty and staff. At left is Leslie Carandang ’16, and at right Anne Flick ’16.

Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham

March 31: BIRDS (Boston Inter-Religious Dialogue of Students), a student organization at the School of Theology and Ministry (STM), hosted local chaplains—from left, Rabbi Elyse Winick, Jewish chaplain at Brandeis University; Swami Tyagananda, Hindu chaplain at Harvard; and Amira Quraishi, Muslim chaplain at Wellesley College—in the STM chapel for a conversation on “What I Cherish about my Faith.”

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

April 1: At the ninth annual Boston College Relay for Life, an all-night fundraiser for the American Cancer Society held in the Flynn Recreation Complex, cancer survivors—from left, Zack Skarka ’15, Tricia Desrocher, P’18, and Evan Smith ’16—led the first lap. Some 1,500 members of the Boston College community participated, raising more than $133,000.

Photograph by Frank Curran

April 7: The Lynch School of Education (LSOE) held its annual Nelson Chair Roundtable, a “think tank” gathering of local community-support leaders. In the Heights Room, from left, are LSOE professor and roundtable chair Anderson Franklin; Kathryn Lembo, president and CEO of South Bay Community Services (back to camera); Sheena Collier, director of the Boston Promise Initiative; Juan Leyton, executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative; and Mauricio Torre, youth and family development director of SBCS.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

April 8: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke in Robsham Theater during a two-day conference on economic inequality, sponsored by the Jesuit Institute. The conference featured presentations by scholars from colleges and universities including Brandeis, Brown, the University of Chicago, the Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Duquesne, Emmanuel, Fordham, Georgetown, the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Northeastern, Notre Dame, St. John’s, Tufts, Virginia Commonwealth, and Yale, as well as Boston College.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

April 14: Capping a daylong symposium on “The Calling of a Public Intellectual,” Howard Gardner, the Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (left), joined political scientist Alan Wolfe, founding director of Boston College’s Boise Center for Religion and American Public Life, in Gasson 100 for a public conversation. The event, hosted by the Boisi Center, was held to celebrate the research and writings of Wolfe, on subjects ranging from moral freedom to “The Transformation of American Religion.” Wolfe is retiring at the end of the semester.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

April 15: Mary Jane Charette, who helped raise 237 foster children over a period of 40 years, and her adopted son Eric Charette, MSW’16, participated, along with some of Eric’s siblings, in a panel discussion on “Adoption and Foster Care: Re-envisioning the Family,” in Higgins 521. The event was moderated by Adam Pertman, president and founder of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, and was sponsored by the School of Social Work.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

April 15: Raymond Santos ’16, a member of the undergraduate comedy troupe Committee for Creative Enactments, performed in Robsham Theater during “Stand Up for a Cause,” an evening of humor hosted by the Carroll School of Management’s Jenks Leadership Program. Performers included members of the student groups Ready Set Punchline, Shovelhead, and Asinine, as well as Boston-based comedian Dana Jay Bein ’01. Proceeds from the evening went to the national organization Prevent Child Abuse America.

Photograph by Peter Julian ’16

April 20: The topic of the School of Theology and Ministry’s Dean’s Colloquium on Religion and Public Culture was “The Theology of Pope Francis: Real Reform or Window Dressing?” Participants in the Heights Room included, from near left, Mark Massa, SJ, dean of the School of Theology and Ministry (STM) and event moderator; STM professor of moral theology James Bretzke, SJ (partially obscured); Susannah Heschel, professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College; and theology professor Kristin E. Heyer.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

April 22: At an Earth Day display on Stokes Lawn, John MacDonald, energy manager in Facilities Management, talked with neighbors of the University about next-generation light bulbs.

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April 26: In the McElroy Commons kitchen, Tim Fonseca, executive pastry chef of Boston College Dining Services, instructed members of the undergraduate Baking Club in the art of cupcake decoration before a Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer fundraiser. Clockwise, from left: Daniella Rizos ’18, Michelle Peffen ’18 (partially obscured), Mary Ladesic ’18, Hannah Ladesic ’18, Yoonseo Zoh ’17, Helen Au ’18, Dining Services director Elizabeth Emery, and Victoria Rizos ’18.

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April 26: In all, 11 students decorated more than 300 cupcakes, which sold out in the Chestnut Hill, Newton, and Brighton campus dining halls on April 27. Proceeds went to the Dana Farber Foundation for Breast Cancer. The sign atop each cupcake was edible.

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February 17: To fulfill a promise tied to the outcome of the 64th Beanpot tournament’s championship game, in which the Eagles men’s hockey team defeated the Terriers of Boston University 1-0, the latter institution’s dining services delivered and served more than 400 pieces of Raising Cane’s chicken fingers (with secret sauce and fries) to Boston College students in the lobby of McElroy Commons.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

February 22: At the invitation of the Irish Studies Program, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh ’10 spoke in Gasson 100 about the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. U.S. Representative Richard Neal of Massachusetts, seated in the front row, fifth from right, also addressed the theme.

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March 1: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, filmmaker, and immigration-reform advocate Jose Antonio Vargas delivered the Spring 2016 Chambers Lecture in Gasson 100. The program was sponsored by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and the Carroll School of Management.

Photograph: Justin Knight

March 2: As part of the Ignatian Society’s Lunches with Jesuits program, Mark Massa, SJ (seated, center), dean of the School of Theology and Ministry, hosted (from left) Tommy Borah ’18, chair of the student-led program, Faye Hubregsen ’17, Martha Veroneau ’17, Adelene Egan ’18, Greg Gaillardetz ’19, and MaryEllen Krah ’17 in the Jesuit dining room of St. Mary’s Hall.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

March 3: Sarah Rooney ’18 sang ‪Jon McLaughlin’s “Beautiful Disaster” at this year’s “Sing It to the Heights,” the American Idol–inspired competition that raises money for music programs at Brighton’s St. Columbkille Partnership School (pre-K through 8). Three Jesuits (from left), Ryan Duns, a Ph.D. candidate in theology, Fidele Ingiyimbere, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, and Campus Ministry’s Donald MacMillan, served as judges.‬‬

Photograph: Christopher Huang

March 3: William Supple ’19 took first place in the “Sing It to the Heights” contest with a rendition of the country tune “Tennessee Whiskey.” Supple, a member of the Bostonians a capella troupe, was accompanied by Colin Cross ’19. This year’s event raised $7,100 for the music programs at the St. Columbkille School.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

March 3: Wynnm Murphy ’18, winner of last year’s “Sing It to the Heights,” performed a mash-up of “Control” by Kevin Garrett and “Where Are Ü Now” by Justin Bieber. Ryan Bradley ’18 accompanied her on keyboard. Sponsors of the event included the Emerging Leader Program; the Office of Governmental and Community Affairs; the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs; and the Robsham Theater Arts Center.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

March 4: Diana Larsen, assistant director of the McMullen Museum, watches as a crew from the fine art handling firm Artex installs Christ and the Moneychangers, an undated oil painting by Washington Allston (1779–1843), one of more than 25 pieces from the University’s permanent collection that will be displayed in the conference center adjoining the Museum’s future home at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue on the Brighton Campus.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

March 4: The crew from Artex positions another painting from the University’s collection, S.S. Glenogle (oil on canvas, 1884) by Antonio Jacobsen (1850–1921), in a first floor stairway. The building will open in September.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

March 16: Marvin Chow ’95, senior director of marketing at Google Inc., delivered the keynote talk at a day-long, University-wide symposium titled “Advancing Research and Scholarship at Boston College—Big Data.” Speaking in the Heights Room, Chow offered Google’s self-driving car as an example of a recent evolutionary development in digital data—namely, machine-learning.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

March 16: In addition to 15 faculty and alumni speakers, the annual event dubbed Research Day highlighted 13 student projects involving this year’s Big Data theme—from tracking the genetic transmission of asthma to stock market forecasting. Computer science majors Ryan Reede ’16 (left) and Cameron Lunt ’17 (not shown) demonstrated the sensors used in virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift being tried out in the foreground.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

March 16: During the second of two sessions featuring faculty research, associate professor of economics Julie Holland Mortimer (right), spoke about the role of Big Data in analyzing the effects of social policy (e.g., advertising regulation) in a changing economic environment. Her fellow presenters were associate professor of computer science Sergio Alvarez, who talked about machine learning involving artificial neural networks as an emerging nexus in interdisciplinary studies; and psychology professor Elizabeth Kensinger, who described her work on neuroimaging of brain networks.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

March 16: The presentations concluded with a discussion of the ethical issues posed by Big Data, featuring (from left) Neal H. Patel, head of human/social dynamics at Google; David Johnson ’75 of the private equity firm Blackstone Group; James Keenan, SJ, Canisius Professor of Theology and director of the Jesuit Institute; and Kevin Swindon, M.S.F.’11, a supervisory agent with the FBI (not shown).

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

January 8: William Gross, superintendent-in-chief of the Boston Police Department, spoke in McGuinn 121 about community policing, at a conference sponsored by the School of Social Work. The theme of the conference was “Race and Justice.”

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

January 14: Actor, director, and musician Jere Shea ’87 talked in Gasson 100 with Margaux Villeneuve ’18, one of 188 sophomores who took part in Endeavor, a two-day career exploration program recently launched by the University’s Career Center. In all, 57 alumni spoke on panels and acted as coaches for the undergraduates, who subsequently visited area workplaces (among the options: the State House, a hospital, a law firm, a nonprofit, and a technology startup).

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

January 15: At a ceremony in Gasson 100 (front row, from left), University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh ’10 presented six organizations serving in nearby Allston or Brighton with grants totaling almost $450,000 from the Boston College Neighborhood Improvement Fund. The awards were outlays from the $2.5 million fund created by Boston College and distributed together with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the community-based Boston College Allston-Brighton Task Force. Seated to Walsh’s left were Massachusetts State Representative Kevin Honan, Boston City Councilor Mark Ciommo, and Jean Woods, the Task Force’s cochair.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

January 21: Among those attending the Unity Breakfast in the Murray Room to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. were (from left) David Quigley, provost and dean of faculties; Dan Bunch, director of the University’s Learning to Learn Program; Tracey West, associate dean of external relations, diversity, and inclusion at the Law School; and guest speaker Andrea Cabral ’81, a lawyer and former Massachusetts secretary of public safety. The event was sponsored by the Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

January 22: James Morken (second from right), the Louise and James Vanderslice and Family Professor of Chemistry, met with members of his research group—from left, chemistry Ph.D. candidates Gabriel Lovinger, Emma Edelstein, Adam Szymaniak, Liang Zhang, and Matteo Chierchia—in his Merkert laboratory. The group recently published an article in Science reporting their development of a type of “cross-coupling” chemical reaction.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

January 26: A lead investigator in a $1.2 million project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math learning opportunities for low-income students in elementary school through community college, Professor G. Michael Barnett (far right) of the Lynch School of Education has been working on ways to integrate robotics and coding into coursework. Testing ideas on a recent day were (from left) Rajeev Rupani, a 2015 M.Ed. recipient in secondary teaching in physics; Elisabeth Ryden ’17; and Anne Vera Cruz, a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

January 28: The Japan Club was among 134 undergraduate organizations signing up recruits at the Student Involvement Fair in Conte Forum. Here, Erika Osada ’19 and Dongkyu Lee ’19, seated in front of the laptop, are joined by, from left, Ken Leszkowicz ’16, Nuolin “Snow” Zhou ’19, Nima Boluriaan ’19, Guo Yu ’19, and Tom Foo ’16.

Photograph: Peter Julian ’16

February 3: Joseph Nugent, associate professor of the practice of English (standing), met in Connolly House with the team of students who designed and produced the multimedia digital guide for the McMullen Museum’s current exhibition, The Arts and Crafts Movement: Making It Irish. In spring 2015, the students—from left, Ryan Reede ’16; Patrick Synan, MA’16; Kaitlin Astrella ’16; and John McElearney ’16—were all members of Nugent’s class “Digital Text, Material Image.”

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

February 4: Auditioning (right) for Sing it to the Heights were juniors, from left, Bianca Francois, Amelia Parker, and Laura-Kay Demezieux. Members of the Boston College Emerging Leader Program (from far left) Eric Zhang ’18, Julie Ozmeral ’19, Madeleine Sullivan ’19, and Enzo Butrico ’19 served as preliminary judges for the American Idol-inspired event that raises funds for music programs at the St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton. The try-out took place in Carney Hall, in space now assigned to the Office of Student Involvement.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

February 5: Recent pruning has heightened the view down Linden Lane to Gasson Hall.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

February 16: At the 34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship award banquet, in Gasson 100, Sonia Okorie ’17 (in white), a student in the Connell School of Nursing, was named next year’s scholarship recipient. Following the award presentation, the finalists, all juniors, gathered for a portrait with University President William P. Leahy, SJ. From left are Joi Dallas, Osamase Ekhator, Fr. Leahy, Okorie, Jessica Stephens, and Jacquelyn Andalcio.

Photograph: Frank Curran

February 16: The former host of National Public Radio’s All Things Considered Michele Norris spoke in the Heights Room about her 2010 memoir, The Grace of Silence, and the Race Card Project, which she initiated at NPR. The worldwide conversation about race in the form of six-word essays earned a 2013 George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in electronic communications. Norris’s talk was sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

February 16: Cast members (from left) Jared Reinfeldt ’16, Julia James ’17, and Caroline Portu ’16 onstage in the Bonn Studio during the dress rehearsal for Learning How To Drown. The musical was written by the 2015–16 Monan Professor in Theater Arts, Patricia Noonan ’07.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

October 16: FISTS (Females Incorporating Sisterhood Through Step) performs in Gasson 100 at the closing ceremony of Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15). Established by President Ronald Reagan in 1988, the month begins with the independence anniversaries of seven Latin American countries and concludes after Columbus Day. Organizers of events on campus this year included the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, the Archbishop Oscar Romero Scholarship Committee, the Boston College Alumni Association, and the Latinos/as at Boston College Association. From left: Sammie-Marie Oluyede ’17, Danielle Patane ’18, Caitlin Tom ’16, Stephanie Delma ’16, Gabriella Facada ’17, Medina Geyer ’16, and Emily Janin ’18.

Photograph by Duncan Wilder Johnson

October 20: In the finale of Act One during the dress rehearsal for the theater department’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel in Robsham Theater, actors reprise the song “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over.” The show was directed by Michelle Miller ’98, the 2015–16 Monan Professor in Theater Arts. From left: Andrew Gaffney ’16, Olivia Koziol ’16, Jesse Lopez ’18, Jared Reinfeldt ’16, Amanda Melvin ’17, Chris Pinto ’16, John Robert Scordino ’17, Jenna Corcoran ’17, Sarah Whalen ’18, and Colin O’Neill ’19.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

October 21: Ta-Nehisi Coates, a 2015 MacArthur Foundation fellow, Atlantic national correspondent, and author of this year’s National Book Award winner Between the World and Me, addresses a capacity crowd in Gasson 100 for a Lowell Humanities Lecture cosponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts and the Winston Center for the Leadership and Ethics.

Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham

October 24: Runners wait at the starting line on Linden Lane of the 11th annual Welles Remy Crowther Red Bandana 5K, which honors the 1999 alumnus and equities trader who rescued a dozen people from the World Trade Center before he died on September 11, 2001. To the left of the banner is Crowther’s father, Jefferson, and to the right, his mother, Alison. More than 1,500 students, alumni, and community members crossed the finish line. Baldwin cheered for all. The race was organized by the University’s Volunteer and Service Learning Center and the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust.

Photograph by Peter Julian

October 29: Renowned Irish tenor Ronan Tynan instructs Ava Tessitore ’17 (standing, left) and Phoebe Lyons ’19 during one of his two vocal masterclasses in Gasson 100, sponsored by the music department. View a video from Tynan’s other masterclass.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

November 5: With the thermometer reading 76, classes take to the outdoors behind Stokes Hall.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 5: Brad Harrington, executive director of the University’s Center for Work and Family, presents research on the attitudes of Americans ages 18–34 toward work, during a conference in the Heights Room marking the center’s 25th anniversary.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

November 5: Phil Schiller ’82 (far left), senior vice president for worldwide marketing at Apple, Inc., takes part in a panel discussion in Robsham Theater after delivering the keynote address to mark the opening of the Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship at Boston College. Joining Schiller for talk of innovation and entrepreneurship are (from left) Nirah Shah, co-chairman, CEO, and cofounder of the home-goods e-commerce company Wayfair; Bijan Sabet ’91, general partner at the venture investment firm Spark Capital; and Jere Doyle ’87, the center’s executive director.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

November 11: During the Veterans Remembrance Ceremony in Gasson 100, Army cadets John Carroll ’18, at podium, and Nicholas Stiker ’18 (out of picture) read the names of the 209 Boston College alumni who died in military service to their country. Rev. James Hairston ’04, an Anglican priest who served in the Army Chaplain Corps in Afghanistan in 2011–12 and now is in the Massachusetts National Guard, stepped forward to honor those who fell in the Korean War.

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

November 16: Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP (center), widely regarded as the founder of liberation theology, receives the President’s Medal for Excellence from University President William P. Leahy, SJ, after addressing a packed Heights Room. Gutiérrez spoke as part of the “Our Faith, Our Stories” series sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center. Standing at left is Thomas Groome, the center’s director.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

August 25: The Office of First Year Experience held seven three-day orientation sessions during the summer for the Class of 2019. Here, the last group of freshmen meet in Robsham Theater on the final day of their session to receive their Superfan T-shirts.

Photograph by Robyn Gesek

August 25: The motto on the back of the T-shirt this year is “Together we are more.”

Photograph by Robyn Gesek

August 25: The freshmen exit Robsham Theater flanked by columns of orientation student leaders in black polos.

Photograph by Robyn Gesek

August 25: A send-off from orientation leaders, more than 50 in all.

Photograph by Robyn Gesek

August 26: Mary McCartney ’19 (left) of East Fishkill, New York, moves into Cheverus Hall on Upper Campus, assisted by her sister, Ellen McCartney ’09.

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August 26: With the aid of parents Tom and Dawn, Tom Mier ’19 of Yardley, Pennsylvania, moves into Medeiros Hall.

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August 26: Welcome Wagon volunteers Kailey Kowalski (left) and Carly Phillips (far right), both juniors, help Isabel Chin ’19 of Chatham, New Jersey, and her mother, Cathy, unload in front of Gonzaga Hall.

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August 26: Priyan Thurairatnam ’19 of Dover, Massachusetts, with his father, Vairamuttho, outside Medeiros Hall.

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August 27: Provost David Quigley speaks to the Class of 2019 at the University Welcome in Conte Forum. Behind him are fellow greeters Thomas Napoli ’16, president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, and Jack Butler, SJ, vice president for the Division of University Mission and Ministry. Barbara Jones (not pictured), vice president for student affairs, emceed the event.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

August 27: Members of the Class of 2019 watch a presentation on the Conte Forum jumbotron about student life. The film, which encouraged students to get outside their comfort zones and try new experiences, was narrated by eight upperclassmen.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

August 31: On the opening day of classes—the first pre-September start in a generation—students throng the walkway between O’Neill Library and Stokes Hall (right).

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September 2: Actor, writer, and producer Michelle Miller ’98, the 2015–16 Monan Professor of Theater Arts, sings for her class in the Bonn Studio Theater. Having asked students to perform at their first meeting, she said she felt it only fair to respond in kind. Miller will direct Carousel in Robsham Theater, October 21–25.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

September 4: Some 300 student organizations and University offices (e.g., the Office of Health Promotion) staffed information and recruitment “booths” at the annual Student Involvement Fair, held on Stokes Lawn.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

September 4: Seniors (from left), Courtney Hall, Kadiatu Tejan, Nehemie Auguste, and Stephanie Thermora represent the Multicultural Christian Fellowship club.

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September 4: Recruiters from the Heights, the University’s independent student newspaper, include, from right: photo editor Drew Hoo ’17, editorial assistant Juan Olavarria ’18, assistant photo editor Daniella Fasciano ’18, and metro editor Bennet Johnson ’17.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

September 4: Members of Outdoor Adventures, from bow to stern, Matthew Suzor ’17, Meghan MacDonald ’17, Leah Dixon ’17, Jacob Zurita ’18, and Paul Menker ’18, engage in some dryland training.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 25: Rachelle Simon (standing), a student in the School of Theology and Ministry’s master of divinity program, led a team-building exercise during the first meeting of the 2015–16 Appalachia Council, the student group that coordinates Campus Ministry’s Appalachia Volunteers program.

Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham

April 25: On a Whim, a band of freshmen—from left, Byung-Hun Kim, Emily Merino, Manny Opuku, and Violet Pappas—performed outside Boston’s Faneuil Hall as part of Break the Bubble, a festival featuring 27 Boston College bands and solo acts organized by the student-led Music Guild.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

April 29: Following the devastating April 25 earthquake in Nepal, students, faculty, and staff gathered on the Gasson Quad for a vigil organized by the undergraduate Buddhism Club.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

April 30: At its final Thursday liturgy of the academic year, the School of Theology and Ministry held a “Sending Forth” ceremony in St. Ignatius Church to celebrate its graduates.

Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham

May 7: Associate professor of theology Brian Robinette (right) and students in his “Introduction to Christian Theology” class practiced a meditation exercise at the labyrinth on the Burns Library lawn.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

May 13: Members of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC)—from left, Melissa Wanyoike ’18, Karryn Christiansen ’16, Jonathan Keedy ’16, and Rachel Newhall ’18—met outside Higgins Hall to discuss the Undergraduate Leadership Academy, a program that introduces freshmen to UGBC with the goal of developing future leaders.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

May 13: Undergraduate recipients of 2015 grants and fellowships included, from left, Corleone Delaveris ’15 (National Science Foundation grant for graduate chemistry study at Stanford University); Frank DiRenno ’15 (Fulbright Scholarship—postgraduate study in the United Kingdom); Alex Moscovitz ’15 (Fulbright—public health research in the Dominican Republic); Eleanor Hildebrandt ’15 (Fulbright—English teaching assistancy in Nepal); Cameron Givens ’15 (Fulbright—English teaching assistancy in Germany); Victoria Mariconti ’15 (Fulbright—English teaching assistancy and music research in Poland); and Enise Koc ’17 (Boren Scholarship—language study in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina). In all, nine Fulbright Scholarships were awarded to Boston College students, with an additional five students designated as alternates. Undergraduates also received three Benjamin Gilman International Scholarships, a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and a Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

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May 18: Students gathered on Linden Lane before assembling by school and proceeding to Alumni Stadium for the University’s 139th Commencement, at which 3,486 undergraduate and graduate degrees were conferred.

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May 18: Associate professor of accounting Billy Soo joined graduating students from the Carroll School of Management on Linden Lane.

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May 18: On the Commencement platform at Alumni Stadium were, from left, Marie Chin, RSM, Jamaican educator and honorary degree recipient; Michael Davidson, SJ, of Campus Ministry; Steve Pemberton ’89, author of A Chance in the World and an honorary degree recipient; John Mahoney, Jr. ’79, director of undergraduate admission; John J. Griffin Jr. ’65, the honorary chief marshal; and Ann Riley Finck ’66, H’14, president of the Boston College Alumni Association.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

May 18: Members of the graduating class of the Lynch School of Education celebrated as the school’s degrees were conferred.

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May 18: University President William P. Leahy, SJ (left), and chairman of the Board of Trustees John Fish presented the Edward H. Finnegan, SJ, Memorial Award to Carroll School of Management student Elizabeth Stief ’15. The highest undergraduate Commencement honor, the award recognizes the student who best exemplifies the motto “Ever to Excel.”

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

March 25: Former president of Lebanon (1982–88) Amine Gemayel spoke in McGuinn 121 on “Religious Pluralism in the Middle East: A Challenge to the International Community.”

Photograph: Caitlin Cunningham

March 27: At a senior thesis poster session held in the O’Neill Library reading room, Patricia Owens ’15 described her research on Tibetan poet Dondrup Gyal to juniors Lucas Allen (left) and Sean Sudol.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

March 28: Ricardo Alberto ’16 was chosen to receive the 2015 Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship, given to a junior who has “demonstrated superior achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the Hispanic/Latino community.” Sitting with Alberto at the event in the Murray Room was (left) Richard Paul, assistant director of the African and African diaspora studies program and Donald MacMillan, SJ, a member of Campus Ministry.

Photograph: Justin Knight

March 29: As part of BC Splash, a program in which University undergraduates teach classes of their own devising to local 7th–12th graders, Matthew Hession ’16 (left) and Ben Halter ’16, members of My Mother’s Fleabag, taught “Introduction to Improv Comedy” in a Stokes Hall classroom.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

March 31: Two Lynch School of Education students (from left), Morgan Grunat ’15 and Maggie Crowley ’17, ran along Commonwealth Avenue with Christine Goldman, a lecturer in chemistry, while training for this year’s Boston Marathon. The three ran the race as members of Team MR8 to raise funds for the Martin Richard Foundation, which honors the eight-year-old killed in the 2013 Marathon bombing.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

March 31: Sophomores in the Gabelli Presidential Scholars program—from left, Alexandra LaTorre, Isra Hussain, Mackenzie Arnold, Theresa Rager, and Jesse Mu—worked on a documentary film about mental health services in Boston that premiered on April 7 in Higgins Hall. The film was part of a yearlong project on social justice that all Presidential Scholars undertake in their second year.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 8: As part of the University’s Fiction Days program, the novelist Dinaw Mengestu—All Our Names (2014)—talked with students from English professor Elizabeth Graver’s fiction-writing class and from the department of African and African diaspora studies at 10 Stone Avenue, home of the University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 10: Members of Boston College Hillel hosted a Passover Seder in the Walsh Function Room.

Photograph: Christopher Huang

April 14: The University hosted “BC Strong,” a panel discussion in Robsham Theater featuring, from left, David Wedge ’93, author of Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy (2015), Brittany Loring JD’13, MBA’13, and Patrick Downes ’05. Both Loring and Downes were injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. WBZTV anchor Paula Ebben ’89 served as moderator.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 15: University President William P. Leahy, SJ, hosted “Wicked Winter,” a reception in the Shea Room to thank the many staff members who helped keep the campus running smoothly during record-setting snowstorms.

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April 16: Peggy Waldron of Gianfranco Pocobene Studio restored a painted wall in the Gasson Rotunda.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

April 23: On Day One of the annual three-day Arts Festival, members of the Bostonians, the University’s oldest a capella group, performed onstage at O’Neill Plaza. From left: Kelsey Woo ’15, Michael Scully ’15, Hannah Crowley ’18, Travis Russell ’18, and Cailin Cowley ’17.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 23: Also performing at O’Neill Plaza, the swing dance troupe Full Swing. From left: Brandon Bavier ’15, Harriet Rafferty ’16, Michael Hussey ’16, Pierre Leconte ’17, and Ilektra Andoni ’17.

Photograph: Robin Gesek

April 24: In a tent on the Stokes lawn, Sheila Gallagher, associate professor of fine arts, interviewed multimedia artist Chris Doyle ’81, this year’s recipient of the Arts Alumni Award, for Inside the BC Studio.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

April 24: Violinist Ye-One Chung ’16 performed with the Boston College Symphony Orchestra in Gasson 100. Chung was the co-winner of the orchestra’s 2014–15 concerto competition.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

February 17: Cai Thomas ’16 (left), a communication and film studies double major, was named next year’s recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship, assigned annually to a junior for “superior academic achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the African-American community and African-American issues both on and off campus.” Following the award presentation in the Heights Room, Thomas posed with (from left) finalists Afua Maiga-Laast and Elisa Bushee; guest speaker Valerie Lewis-Mosley ’79, director of religious education at the Church of Christ the King in Jersey City, New Jersey, and co-creator of the term AHANA; University President William P. Leahy, SJ; and finalist Julia Biango. Not shown: finalist Ronald Claude, who is studying in South Africa this semester.

Photograph by Frank Curran

February 19: Civil Rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin (center), the first person arrested—at age 15—in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to follow bus segregation rules, discussed her experiences before an audience of students and faculty in the Heights Room. Following her talk, which was sponsored by the School of Social Work (SSW), Colvin met up with her granddaughter Jennifer Colvin (left), a student in the SSW master’s program, and daughter-in-law Cheryl Colvin.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

February 20: Andrea Javel, senior lecturer in French (foreground), and fellow language instructors attended the Romance languages and literatures department’s annual pedagogy workshop, in Lyons Hall 202.

Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham

February 26: Associate professor of biology Mary Kathleen Dunn and associate professor of theater Scott Cummings were among the faculty meeting in O’Neill Library to discuss the innovative core curriculum courses that will launch in Fall 2015. The pair will teach an “Enduring Questions” course that links two distinct classes: Dunn’s “Epidemics, Disease, and Humanity” and Cummings’s “Devising Theater: Disease As Metaphor.”

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

February 26: Wynnm Murphy ’18 took first place with her rendition of “Baby One More Time” at “Sing It to the Heights,” an American Idol-inspired competition held in Robsham Theater. A panel of three Jesuits served as judges (Campus Ministry’s Michael Davidson and Don MacMillan and Mario Powell ’03, who is studying for his licentiate in sacred theology at the School of Theology and Ministry). The event featured 10 undergraduate performers chosen by audition and raised $6,350 for the music programs at the St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton. Sponsors included the Emerging Leaders Program; Office of Governmental and Community Affairs; Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs; and the Robsham Theater Arts Center.

Photograph by Caitlin Cunningham

March 10: “Legally Blind: Law, Ethics, and the Third Reich,” a two-day conference, included a panel discussion in the Heights Room with, from left, Donald Fishman, associate professor of communication; Timothy W. Ryback, cofounder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at Leiden University, the Netherlands; Raymond Helmick, SJ, instructor in conflict resolution in the theology department; and John B. Romeiser, professor of French at the University of Tennessee. Sponsors included the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics; Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy; Laura and Lorenz Reibling Foundation; fine arts department/film studies program; Jewish studies program; faith, peace and justice program; Woods College of Advancing Studies; German studies department; Center for Christian-Jewish Learning; and the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Photograph by Robyn Gesek

March 11: Novelist Dennis Lehane signed books after delivering a Lowell Humanities lecture in Gasson 100. The Lowell Humanities Series, which brings writers, artists, and scholars to campus, is sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Arts.

Photograph by Justin Knight

March 13: Heightsman Pat Fei ’18 (center) soloed on Alicia Keys’s “If I Ain’t Got You” during the a capella group’s benefit concert to support music director David Goebel ’16 (right) in his running of this year’s Boston Marathon for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Heightsmen’s show, which was held in McGuinn 121, also featured the campus hip-hop/rock group Juice. It raised $1,550.

Photograph by Christopher Huang

March 15: University provost David Quigley was the featured speaker in Conte Forum at the University’s 64th annual Laetare Sunday celebration marking the midpoint of Lent. A Mass was said by University President William P. Leahy, SJ.

Photograph by Justin Knight

March 20: A group of cancer survivors from the Boston College community led the way at the start of Relay for Life, an annual all-night fundraiser in the Flynn Recreation Complex. More than 1,500 students, faculty and staff, and local community members took part in this year’s walking relay, which raised $151,513 for cancer research. Contributions through the campus Relay exceed $1,000,000 since 2008.

Photograph by Christopher Huang

March 23: A 2014 Tony Award nominee for best actor in a musical, Bryce Pinkham ’05 (far right) delivered a DeVoy Perspectives on Theater lecture in Robsham Theater. Pinkham brought aspiring actors onstage from the audience—from left, Meghan Hornblower ’17, Brandan Ray ’15, and Ryan Cooper ’16—for an acting exercise involving musical chairs.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

March 24: The University’s inaugural Commencement Fair in the Murray Room provided graduates-to-be the opportunity to order class rings, yearbooks, and caps and gowns, and to meet with members of the Career Center. Seniors (from left) Genoviva Sowemimo-Coker, Rosmailyn Lantigua, Gabriella Vernace, and Ana Galan visited the Alumni Association table (staffed by Jake Robinson ’16).

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini