From sunrise over the reservoir to the awarding of degrees, four graduating seniors capture Commencement Day. (video)
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- A Paradise Lost reading, in a Boston College Minute
- Inside the BC Studio with the poet Brendan Galvin '60
- "From Denial to Acceptance: Holy See–Israel Relations," a talk by Mordechay Lewy, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican
Reconnect 2009
Reader's List
Books by alumni, faculty, and staff
Headliners
Alumni in the news
BC Bookstore Connection
Order books noted in Boston College Magazine
Class Notes
Join the online community of alumni
Campus digest
Homecoming
An AHANA reunion
Rare scientist
The lone chemist among this year’s Guggenheim recipients seeks reasons for random events
Career counsel
Redefining the job hunt
Makings of a poet
Conversations with Brendan Galvin ’60 on the acoustics of bats, and the virtues of waiting
Milton marathon
Paradise lost and found
For the record
A banner year for Fulbrights
Advances
From the laboratories
Charitable outlook
Funders and fundraisers take stock
Extra innings
The longest game
From the Burns Library
Palm readings
Points of view
Across time and death, one philosopher befriends another
Katie’s song
How the national pastime got its anthem
Something happened
About to graduate into retirement, a longtime faculty member offers students a valedictory
On the cover: “Dedication of a Monument to the Memory
of the New Hampshire Regiment in the Battle of Winchester [Virginia],” drawn by sketch artist James E. Taylor, April 10, 1865. Graphite on wove paper. Courtesy of the Becker Collection, Boston, MA
Picturing America
How artists reported the news—or tried to—in the years before photography
Value proposition
The worth of a liberal arts education
War stories
Six conflicts, seven alumni
Looking glass
The artful windows of Boston College
Keeping the faithful
In Boston, as elsewhere in the United States, Hispanic immigrants arrive Catholic; they don’t necessarily remain so
A public affair
Israel and Rome in the time of Benedict
Coming events
A sample of programs scheduled for fall
Summer 2009
NEW FROM @BC
Blind runner Joseph Quintanilla '98 raises awareness of obstacles and opportunities for the visually impaired. (video)
NEW FROM FRONT ROW
Harry Markopolos MS '97 recounts his decade–long effort to lay bare the Ponzi scheme of investment manager Bernard Madoff. (video)
Bloomsday Boston 2009: Ulysses and the Common Reader
How technology can help readers of James Joyce's notoriously dense masterpiece—a talk by assistant professor of English Joseph Nugent. (Video)
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