Freshman faculty
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A sampling of the 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2016–17 academic year.
O Pioneers
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Move-in day at the University’s newest, second-largest residence hall.
Poster season
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Topics ranged from machine learning to the Ottoman imperial harem as students showcased their independent research this spring.
First installment
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Eight-foot-tall residents are the first to settle into the McMullen Museum of Art’s new home.
Together again
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On Friday morning of Parents’ Weekend, photographer Gary Wayne Gilbert and his team invited families to pose for a picture.
Freshman faculty, part 2
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More of the 44 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2015–16 academic year.
Freshman faculty
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A sampling of the 44 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2015–16 academic year.
Views from the top
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Campus changes and enduring landmarks seen from the roof of the University’s newest (under construction) residence hall.
Close-up: St. Mary’s Hall
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The Jesuit residence reopened in January after a two-year renovation, with a complement of academic offices.
Common place
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Undergraduate history students curated an exhibition on Boston’s first public park.
Freshman faculty
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A sampling of the 44 faculty joining Boston College in the 2014–15 academic year.
Small wonders
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The seldom seen pagodas of the orphans of Tushanwan, from an exhibition curated by the history students of Jeremy Clarke, SJ.
Home for the holiday
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Faculty and staff welcomed international students for Thanksgiving.
Showtimes
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Spies, saints, and Russian siblings—scenes from three plays staged at the Robsham Theater this fall.
Incoming
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On August 29, more than 400 undergraduate volunteers welcomed some 2,000 arriving members of the Class of 2017.
Crowdsourcing
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Hundreds of University organizations were on display (and in costume) at the annual Student Involvement Fair.
The 137th
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From the student parade to Alumni Stadium to the awarding of degrees (and related joy), Boston College’s 137th Commencement.
Troupe maneuvers
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In high heels, sneakers, and work boots, student dance groups took to the boards at the 2013 Arts Festival.
Mile 21: The day after
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The evening following the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, students gathered in front of St. Ignatius Church, near Mile 21, signing get-well posters for two graduate students injured by the blasts. And the University held a Mass for Healing and Hope inside the packed church.
Anniversary moments
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From meals-to-go (bound for Burkina Faso) to a sing-along of “For Boston” at Symphony Hall, the 150th celebration is in full swing.
Freshman faculty
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A sampling of the 47 tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2012-13 academic year.
Caught on film
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An elusive photographer left enduring images of the early Heights.
Celebrate
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Boston College’s Sesquicentennial observance begins, with a Mass for some 20,000 alumni, students, faculty, and friends in Fenway Park.
How I will spend my summer vacation
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Interviews with faculty who will be making introductions, plotting, building bridges, and more, courtesy of University TAM grants.
Merit scholars
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On March 15, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, announced the names of 13 newly tenured faculty members.
Stage presence
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Since the Robsham Theater Arts Center opened in 1981, photographer Lee Pellegrini has been capturing dress rehearsals on the main stage. @BC presents a 30th anniversary review.
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A sampling of the 42 faculty who joined Boston College for the 2011–12 academic year.
Headmasters
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Urban principals—public and parochial—fill the inaugural class of the Lynch Leadership Academy.
Secrets revealed
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At the McMullen Museum, artifacts from a long-lost city offer an early view of multiculturalism.
Freshman faculty
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A sampling of the 31 faculty who joined Boston College for the 2010–11 academic year.
Freshmen faculty
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A sampling of the 41 new, tenure-track faculty who arrived at Boston College for the 2009–10 academic year.
Act four
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The arts took center stage at the close of Hispanic Heritage Month, October 16.
Honor role
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Scenes from the dedication of the campus’s new Veterans Memorial Wall, November 11.
Special friend
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Images from 1966 to 2008 recall the long and wide-ranging relationship between Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Boston College.
Freshmen faculty
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Two historians, an information systems specialist, and the new director of graduate programs in Hispanic Ministry are among newcomers who discuss their interests.
Freshmen faculty
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From transactions at a Vietnam farmers’ market to cardiac patients who don’t follow doctors’ orders, new faculty members discuss their interests.
Freshmen faculty
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Nine newcomers, including a statistician, a sleep study clinician, and a composer, discuss their work and interests.
Let the campaign begin
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Photos from the gala launch of Light the World on October 11
Freshman faculty
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Newcomers’ interests, from human–robot interaction to an 18th-century Damascus barber
When Boston burned
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Images of the “Great Boston Fire” on exhibit at the Burns Library.
Caught in the act
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Scenes from the creation of Ashley’s Purpose, a student stage production about a young woman who became a celebrity after being freed by an armed fugitive who kidnapped her.
Freshman faculty
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Newcomers, from a victims’ advocate to a chemist generating clean energy with nanotechnology
“Hail, Alma Mater”
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The sights and sounds of the University’s 131st Commencement exercises
Crunch time
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Students talk about study techniques and sleep deprivation as they prepare for final exams.
Hidden masters
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A curator’s tour of personal favorites from the McMullen Museum’s foray into a neglected sector of European art.
The art of football
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BC bowl posters from the 1940s and 1980s. The Eagles will go to their eighth consecutive bowl game on December 30.
Freshman class
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A synthesist, a catalyzer, a climatologist, and an appreciative interpreter of Islamic culture are among the 29 faculty who begin work at Boston College this year.
Daily grace
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The McMullen Museum’s exhibition of Islamic decorative art, Cosmophilia, features more than 120 objects from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries.
Inquiring minds
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Portraits of Scholars of the College and their faculty advisors, who talk about their students’ research topics, from Simone de Beauvoir to pterocellin A.
Dual purpose
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Highlights from Secular/Sacred, an exhibition of medieval art and objects, currently at the McMullen Museum.
Oft-told tales: How Gulliver grew
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From book to movies to tchotchkes, how Gulliver grew and grew and grew.
Card catalog
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The Cuala Press was a family-run business in Dublin for most of the 20th century. The family, however, happened to be named Yeats, and among their products was a series of Christmas cards that drew upon the talents of Ireland’s best writers and artists.
Warming up
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Sights and sounds from the University’s new music practice studios in Lyons Hall.
Celluloid dreams
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BC honors student filmmakers at the first annual Baldwin Awards.
“Accommodations of Desire”
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Images from the McMullen Museum’s exhibit of surrealist art from the remarkable collection of Julien Levy.
Mr. Shaw
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A new exhibition at the Burns Library reveals a willful, vegetarian, health-obsessed, literary dynamo whose wit still delights, even if his political theories no longer persuade.
A child is born
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From the McMullen Museum, Burns Library, and St. Mary’s Hall, nine portrayals of Mary and Jesus.
Family feud
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A review of highlights (and lowlights) of the BC-Holy Cross football rivalry, from its initiation in 1896, to its demise 82 games later in 1986.
Prime movers
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Reunion attendees recall (and are reunited with) faculty members who changed their lives.
The way we were
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A near-century of commencement snapshots from the Burns Library archives, spanning Henry V. Cunningham, who received BC’s first honorary degree in 1892, and Lionel Ritchie, who sang a hit single in Alumni Stadium in 1986.
Major concerns
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Fifteen faculty members who were promoted to tenure or to full professor this year answer the question: What’s on your mind?
Rock around the clock
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Part party, part endurance test, an 18-hour dance marathon organized by BC students wore out plenty of sneakers and raised thousands for Children’s Hospital Boston.
Inner fire
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Gargan Hall’s stained glass windows are resplendent with color and light. They are also by turns reverent, mysterious, and whimsical.
History lesson
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Boston College’s recent Reflections in Black exhibit attracted an unusually youthful museum audience.
Page turner
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Take a journey through Boston College’s two-millionth volume, a 1613 scientific treatise by Galileo Galilei.
Reflections in Black
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Selected images from the recent McMullen Museum exhibit of African-American photography.