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Election postmortems, a clean room, and bells—scenes from the past six weeks.

 

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.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

 

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

 

 

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Freshman faculty]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3725 2016-10-21T20:39:17Z 2016-10-21T14:45:56Z k

A sampling of the 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2016–17 academic year.

 

Hanne Eisenfeld
Position: Assistant professor of classical studies, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Ohio State University
Interests: Archaic and classical Greek poetry; Greek religion and myth
Representative publication: “Ishtar Rejected: Reading a Mesopotamian Goddess in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite,” Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2015

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

M. Bumin Yenmez
Position: Associate professor of economics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Stanford University
Interests: Matching theory, auction theory, mechanism design, and choice theory
Representative publication: “Ranking by Manipulability” (with Peter Chen, Michael Egesdal, and Marek Pycia), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2016

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Wan Sonya Tang
Position: Assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Yale University
Interests: Modern Spanish literature and visual culture, realism and the fantastic, women in the Spanish Civil War
Representative publication: “Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Narratives,” in The Sacred and Modernity in Spain: Beyond the Secular City (edited by A. Córdoba and Daniel García Donoso), 2016

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Fazel Fallah Tafti
Position: Assistant professor of physics, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Toronto
Interests: Superconductors, exotic magnets, more efficient thermoelectric and energy related materials
Representative publication: “Temperature-field Phase Diagram of Extreme Magnetoresistance” (with Q. D. Gibson, S. K. Kushwaha, N. Haldolaarachchige, R. J. Cava), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Timothy Mangin
Position: Assistant professor of music, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D.: Columbia University
Interests: Ethnomusicology, the intersection of popular music, race, ethnicity, religion, and cosmopolitanism in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Representative publication: “Cosmopolitan Routes: Jazz in Senegal,” in Begegnungen: The World Meets Jazz (edited by Wolfram Knauer), 2008

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Sokiente Dagogo-Jack
Position: Assistant professor of marketing, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: University of Washington
Interests: Nonconscious effects of brand identity elements
Representative publication: “Activating Stereotypes with Brand Imagery: The Role of Viewer Political Identity” (with Justin Angle, Mark Forehand, and Andrew Perkins), Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2016

Photograph by Tony Rinaldo

Yehua Wei
Position: Assistant professor of operations, Carroll School of Management
Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: Flexible manufacturing, service networks, risk mitigation
Representative publication: “Analyzing Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Approach with Partial Expectations” (with H. Bidkhori and D. Simchi-Levi), Operations Research Letters, 2016

Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Nadia N. Abuelezam
Position: Assistant professor of nursing, Connell School of Nursing
Ph.D.: Harvard University
Interests: Epidemiology, infectious diseases, social networks
Representative publication: “Can the HIV Epidemic Be Eliminated in South Africa Using Combination Prevention? A Modelling Analysis” (with A.W. McCormick, et al.), American Journal of Epidemiology, 2016

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Deoksoon Kim
Position: Assistant professor of teacher education/special education, curriculum, and instruction, Lynch School of Education
Ph.D.: University of New Mexico
Interests: Second language and bilingual processes, integrating instructional technology in teacher education
Representative publication: “One Wiki, Two Groups: Dynamic Patterns of Interaction in ESL Collaborative Writing” (with M. Li), Journal of Second Language Writing, 2016

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Cheryl S. Bratt
Position: Assistant professor of legal reasoning, research, and writing, Law School
Ph.D.: University of Michigan
Interests: Family law and education law
Representative publication: “Doing Like the Locals Do: Using the Legal Writing Classroom to Teach Local-Rule Practice,” Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 2014

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

Ryan Williams
Position: Assistant professor of law, Law School
Ph.D.: Columbia University
Interests: Original meanings of the Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteen Amendments, intersection of constitutional rules and civil litigation process
Representative publication: “Due Process, Class Action Opt Outs, and the Right Not to Sue,” Columbia Law Review, 2015

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Portfolio]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3731 2016-10-21T17:45:39Z 2016-10-21T14:44:40Z k
It’s tradition—new faces, new places, new starts. Scenes from the past six weeks.

 

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.

Photograph by Lee Pellegrini

 

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

 

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[O Pioneers]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3711 2016-09-27T20:59:57Z 2016-09-27T18:06:47Z k
On Thursday and Friday, August 25 and 26, Thomas More Apartments, the recently completed residence hall at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue (formerly the site of More Hall), welcomed its first residents. The five-story, 240,000-square-foot structure houses 490 students in four- and six-person apartments throughout three wings, and it is the University’s second largest residence in square-footage, after the revamped Reservoir Apartments at 2000 Commonwealth Avenue. The building contains three music practice rooms, 13 study rooms, and five open lounges. University Health Services is located on the ground floor of the south wing. Photographs by Lee Pellegrini.

Peter Dawson ’17 and his mother, Adriene, from Stamford, Connecticut, in the queue along Commonwealth Avenue, the principal staging point for moving into the building, on August 26.

 

Catherine Malcynsky ’17 (left) and her parents Jay and Joni, from Chester, Connecticut. The Residence Hall Association provided the red moving carts (for 30-minute intervals).

 

The Commonwealth Avenue entrance. Construction of the five-story, brick- and stone-clad building began in May 2014. Its completion coincided with the demolition on Lower Campus of Edmond’s Hall, a 790-bed residence dating to 1975. A new recreation complex is planned for the Edmond’s site.

 

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, native Emily Correia ’17 (foreground) and her sister Stephanie looked on as their father, Americo, retrieved items from the recesses of his truck.

 

Brittney Bentivegna ’17 (right) and her mother, Wendy, of Southport, Connecticut. The residence hall sits just across the town line from Newton, in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Members of the Boston Police Department were assigned to keep traffic flowing.

 

After a 17-hour drive from Chicago, Andrew Kelley ’17 and his father, Steve, made the final push to a waiting four-man apartment.

 

Fresh arrivals checked in with undergraduate resident assistants in the main lobby. The Commonwealth Avenue entrance can be seen just beyond the array of sofas and armchairs at right. St. Thomas More Drive and a courtyard facing Lower Campus are to the left.

 

Resident assistants signed in Christine Rotondo ’17, who was joined by Isabella Rosales ’17 (in Celtics jersey).

 

The Commonwealth Avenue entrance and adjacent seating areas, as seen from a second-floor lounge. High ceilings and glass walls in many of the public spaces give the building an airy feel.

 

As second-year law student Cusaj Thomas ’15, one of 10 resident assistants, looked on, James Hunker ’17 (left) and Alex Joyce ’17 lugged an extra sofa for their fourth-floor, four-person apartment. The common room in every apartment comes furnished with a sofa, two armchairs, a coffee table, and a dining table and chairs.

 

Victoria Mulkern ’18 and her mother, Diane, of Milton, Massachusetts, passed the Athletics Department’s Pom Squad practicing in a first-floor seminar room. The building also contains a 1,373-square-foot meeting room with catering and AV facilities.

 

Bridget Nolan ’17, of Winchester, Massachusetts, moved into her fourth-floor apartment with the help of her parents, Brendan Nolan ’85 and Susan Santonelli. The view out the window extends over the central courtyard toward Lower Campus.

 

Dominic Hardaway ’19, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, unpacked in his four-person apartment. In addition to the desk provided to each student, there are two or more study rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows on every level.

 

Elsie Guevara ’17 (red shirt) in her six-person apartment, assisted by her cousin Natalie. All apartments have a full kitchen.

 

A first-floor corridor in the building’s north wing. The central courtyard is visible in the background.

 

The lobby as seen from the Commonwealth Avenue doorway, with a second-floor lounge visible above. This shot was taken just before 4:00 p.m., when most residents had arrived and were settling into their new rooms.

 

The central courtyard and north wing of the building (left), photographed from St. Thomas More Drive.

 

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Going, going]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3715 2016-09-27T20:23:46Z 2016-09-27T18:05:25Z k

What it was: Edmond’s Hall was a nine-story, 790-bed residence on Lower Campus that housed some 30,000 students between fall 1975 and spring 2016.

Why it came down: To make room for a 240,000-square-foot recreation facility that will replace the 44-year old Flynn RecPlex in 2018.

Timing: August 5 to September 22, 2016. A camera mounted atop the Yawkey Center took a picture of Edmond’s once an hour from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., every day. (Drone footage was taken on August 8, and again on September 22.)

Phases: June and July—furniture removal. Washing machines, dryers, and ovens were crushed by an on-site excavator, and then recycled. Where feasible, beds and desks were redistributed to other residence halls. August and September—mechanical demolition. Working from the top story down, removal of brick façade, then steel framework, then floors. More than 98 percent of the building was recycled.

Equipment: Volvo EC700C high-reach excavator, Caterpillar 374D excavator, Kotmatsu PC360 excavator, Komatsu 470 wheel loader, and a Caterpillar 226 skid steer loader.

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Googled: Eric Nam ’11]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3705 2016-09-16T14:27:11Z 2016-09-14T17:18:32Z In the fall of 2011, Eric Nam was living in Hyderabad, India, helping establish low-income schools on an NGO fellowship, when he received an unexpected email. A television producer in Korea liked the karaoke covers of U.S. top 40 and Korean pop (K-pop) songs Nam had posted on YouTube while a Boston College student, and he was offering Nam an audition on Birth of a Great Star, the South Korean equivalent of American Idol. The son of Korean immigrants, Nam grew up in Atlanta, and speaks fluent Korean. He majored in international studies and was offered a job at a major business consultancy in New York City. But he thought, “You live once, you have the opportunity to pursue a dream, go for it,” as he recently told the fashion magazine Milk. He placed fifth in the competition, and in September 2012 the K-pop management agency B2M Entertainment offered him a recording contract. Each of the six singles he’s released to date—sugary, splashy love songs that mix Korean and English (e.g., from “Can’t Help Myself”: “숨쉴수가 없어 / I think I’m in too deep / Because of you / 말하고 싶어”)—have cracked the top 100 on Korea’s pop chart.

K-pop is a $4 billion global industry. Nam has toured throughout Asia, Canada, and the United States, and performed at KCON (in Los Angeles and New York), an annual celebration of Hailyu, the umbrella term for the expanding “Korean Wave” of music, television drama, fashion, and food. Between 2013 and 2016, he hosted 207 episodes of the popular Korean-language, internet-based talkshow After School Club.

This past summer, Nam released “Into You,” his first English single. “K-pop serves a very niche community,” he recently told the U.S.-based pop culture news network Fusion. “But I think it would be great to see Asian-Americans and Korean faces going beyond that.”

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Portfolio]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3683 2016-05-26T17:31:38Z 2016-05-26T17:30:54Z k
Scenes from the University’s 140th Commencement, on May 23, 2016.

 

Linden Lane, 7:45 a.m.: Students in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences begin to assemble. Coffee and a light breakfast was offered before the procession began at 8:45.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Biochemistry major Chuda Rijal ’16 with, from left, his brother, Yadap, mother, Devi, and father, Dilli. Born in a refugee camp in Nepal, the Bhutanese Rijal became a U.S. citizen during his freshman year, at a naturalization ceremony in Robsham Theater.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Communication major Julia Covino ’16 (left) and Lynch School of Education student Jace Eddy ’16, one of many with a personalized mortarboard.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Philosophy major Ellen Hedstrom ’16, with parents Tom ’77 and Jennifer.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Students gathered on Linden Lane before assembling by school and processing by several routes to Alumni Stadium. In all, 2,175 undergraduate and 1,330 graduate degrees were conferred.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

From left, John Fish, chair of the Board of Trustees; Ernest Moniz ’66, U.S. Secretary of Energy and the day’s Commencement speaker; and University President William P. Leahy, SJ, walk toward the platform in Alumni Stadium.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Some 20,000 family and friends attended. The temperature was 68 degrees as the ceremony began at 10:00 under a clear blue sky.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Moniz called on the Class of 2016 to reverse the trends of climate change and “lowest common denominator social and political discourse.” “Every skill set that you have acquired,” he said, “must be brought to bear to address these issues.”

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

 

Fr. Leahy and Fish award Marissa Marandola ’16 her degree as the representative of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Class of 2016. A 2015 Truman Scholar and editor of the undergraduate research journal Elements, the political science major also received the 2016 Edward J. Finnegan, SJ, Award, the University’s highest undergraduate honor. Marandola will attend Harvard Law School in the fall.

Photograph: Gary Wayne Gilbert

 

Accounting major Jose Alvarez ’16 and fellow graduates of the Carroll School of Management.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Graduates of the Lynch School of Education celebrate as their class’s representative, Patricia Garibaldi ’16, receives her degree.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

The ceremony concluded with “Hail! Alma Mater!” and “For Boston,” performed by the University Wind Ensemble and Chorale and accompanied by graduates’ and visitors’ voices. Then came a sing-along to Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” which played over the public address system.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Between the full University Commencement and the individual schools’ diploma ceremonies, families met up beneath the statue of Doug Flutie ’85 on the plaza outside Alumni Stadium.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Kadiatu Tejan ’16 with her family and friends on O’Neill Plaza after the Connell School of Nursing’s diploma ceremony.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

Connell School of Nursing graduate Alicia Vautour ’16 became the fifth child of Fred (right), a night-shift custodian at Robsham Theater, and Debbie Vautour to earn a degree from Boston College. Behind them, from left, are Alicia’s sister-in-law Lily Vautour, nephew Adam, and brothers Michael ’09 and John ’04.

Photograph: Lee Pellegrini

 

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Homeward bound]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3685 2016-05-26T20:50:22Z 2016-05-26T17:29:00Z k

Date: May 17, 2016, last day of final exams
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (deadline for departure, 4:00)
Location: Newton Campus, Keyes North and South residence halls
Tools: Laundry carts, duct tape, helping hands, spatial intelligence, brawn

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@BC http://at.bc.edu <![CDATA[Insider: The actors’ warm-up]]> http://at.bc.edu/?p=3678 2016-05-25T20:58:53Z 2016-05-25T20:53:12Z K

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