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Portraits of 29 men and women whose contributions—some public but most private—have wrought the sesquicentennial edition of Boston College
Last season, Steve Donahue coached a team of mostly freshmen
The dean of Boston College Law School reflects on how law schools—and the legal profession—can do better
After delivering their freshmen to orientation, mothers, fathers, and guardians enjoy a preview of the life and purposes of the University
How one high-octane Jesuit and thousands of ordinary Bostonians moved Boston College to high ground
Four young Boston College scientists are among those honored this year by the Sloan Foundation
Special report: Inside the 150th anniversary celebration
When he was 24, the author found his family
Student pursuits you may or may not know about
When Harvard declared its distrust of the Boston College degree, the Jesuits claimed religious discrimination. They may have been right, but there was more to it
Thirty years, eight lives
The dangers posed by Big Data are real. So is the defense inherent in liberal arts study
Inside the classrooms of six Boston College faculty
Five thousand objects and counting
How an advertisement in the New York Times changed legal history
Joe Morgan's life in baseball
The portrait assignment
Ten years after 9/11, we continue to misjudge our enemies and their motives. A fresh reading of evil is required, says the author—one that draws from religious understandings and political theory
Three memoirists of the family, on why and how they came to tell their difficult stories
When the Massachusetts legislature voted in 1966 to end the last all-out ban on contraceptives in the nation, it was with the approval and assistance of the Boston Archdiocese
An undergraduate’s solo journey overland from Istanbul to Kabul
The life and times of an invention that was going to transform solar power (and may yet do so)
In his talk at Boston College, a noted political theorist praises the liberal arts for compelling discipline and discomfort, experience and a certain kindness
Jane Jacobs distrusted academics about as much as city planners. When invited to leave her papers to Boston College, however, she warmly agreed
Each summer the Boston College Intersections program and the Volunteer and Service Learning Center send a dozen faculty and staff on a week-long 'immersion trip' to Nicaragua. To what end? The author, an English professor, offers this account
Guided by Professor Joseph Nugent, successive classes of students are building a potentially never ending, virtual tour of Joyce's Dublin
Will Europe become the "colony of Islam" that some predict? A hard look at the future
The road to Commencement
How to make a mathematician
In America, the living aren't always in charge
The questionnaire
For two years, they learned theory and practiced with mannequins. Now it’s time for Stacey Barone’s students to treat patients
Chuck Hogan '89 works eight hours a day, seven days a week. The results are explosive
The photography of Bobbie Hanvey
Lotteries once served to build this country. Today they tax the poor
Harry Markopolos, MS'97, began warning federal officials about Bernard Madoff in 2000. What went wrong?
A model life
Boston College's newest professional school, Theology and Ministry, began life with 130 years of experience
Are we helpless against addiction—is it truly a sickness? Searching for the roots of chemical dependence
How artists reported the news—or tried to—in the years before photography
The worth of a liberal arts education
Six conflicts, seven alumni
The artful windows of Boston College
An oral history of the Black Talent program
Part seminar, part artsfest, part rolling carnival and interreligious international engagement, Richard Kearney's Guestbook Project also happens to exemplify Boston College's efforts to bring serious and broad attention—and funding—to innovative humanities programs
The retirees, that is
Letters of a country lawyer
The business of public schools is to educate children. The business of the Lynch School's Boston Connects program is to enable that education
Ladies, Gentlemen, choose your weapons
When the earth quakes and the winds blow, who are you going to call? It's a political question
Boston College announces its $1.5 billion fund drive called Light the World
With $520 million accrued in gifts and pledges at the time of its public launch, the Light the World campaign has already stimulated serious new developments at Boston College
A passion for research is not born. It is nurtured. Stories from the summer of 2008
For a year the author aided illegal immigrants who found their way to Annunciation House
Elizabeth Yeats and her Dublin hand press
At age 29, the author placed the initials “SJ” after his name and assumed the life of a "resident stranger"
Job holders in the generation soon to retire will have to work longer than their parents did. How much longer?
Soon after World War I, America's lay Catholics claimed a new role for themselves, in their Church and in their country
Temporary art
When Mauldin met Patton
A report from limbo
Why the Iliad matters
Reality theater
Stories of a Cherokee childhood
Most contemporary philosophy stands above the fray—but not all of it
Gasson tower goes under the knife
The parallel language of fragile X
Catholicism built the labor movement. It must do so again
An exhibition of paintings said to be by Jackson Pollock will place the McMullen Museum at the center of an international conversation about authenticity—and the role of an academic museum
The graduates—then and now
A life in the fray prepared John McElroy for the start-up of Boston College
Ken Hackett '68 guides one of the country’s largest relief agencies through a world of need
The University sailors
The 17th-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher was said to possess universal understanding. He didn't, but he may have been the last man to come close
Dr. Philip Landrigan '63 has taken on lead, pesticides, and Twin Towers dust. Now he takes aim at all the avoidable illnesses of childhood
The freshmen faculty
For nine months in the formative post-invasion period, the author served in Iraq, a high-level civilian assigned to help the country rebuild. He had the best of intentions
Conversations on justice, power, and the U.S. Supreme Court
The Sweeney files
Notes from the positive laughter movement
What Americans on the left and right should agree upon
Six ways of viewing the possibilities
Do behavioral drugs make us better? Do they make America better?
Five days in the public life of Boston College's president
Summer school for researchers
A short story
Before there were blue states and red states, there was Boston's way of thinking and the South's
Should a 29-year-old petty criminal and recovering addict be deported to a country she fled as a child?
Artists at work
A memoir
In 1962, the author, a young American Army officer, served as a military advisor in a small civil conflict in Southeast Asia
Craig Finn ’93, of the Hold Steady, writes and sings rock-and-roll dime novels of pain and redemption at the junction of suburbia and the demimonde. He’s being described as the new Springsteen. He’s a happy man
In 1965 Congress enacted a revolutionary voting rights act. Do we still need it?
BC's new practice rooms are filled with the sounds of music day and night
Thirty years ago, one of the great ornithological mysteries was solved—as most mysteries are—with luck, lab work, and dogged deduction
The long, hot summer of Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole ’76
Michael A’Hearn ’61 hits his comet
Trial by jury is probably the worst way to administer justice, except all the others.
Inside the Persian carpet trade.
Some who graced the University's lecture halls during the past year.
How America came to back South Vietnam's despised and doomed president.
Stalking the country's great trees.
Three theologians and a Jesuit physician look beyond the Terri Schiavo case.
Student filmmakers get their reward.
A small theater can be a risky, lonely, and irresistible business.
The Vatican view of the United States incorporates respect, indifference, fear, and gratitude. All are reasonable responses
The art of the buzz-off, from the John J. Burns Library
The Bush administration has proposed to end chronic homelessness within 10 years. The author's research shows it can be done.
How the press, moral character, and enemies have influenced the American presidency.
My lifetime with Fernand Khnopff.
Inside the world of young consumers.
Connecting to BC's new campus.
Hospice stories.
Two conflicting views guide the Church's position on women, and have from the very beginning. And therein lies hope.
Winners of the 2004 flash fiction contest.
The court's decision was simply just. "Deliberate speed" was simply not.
A tour of the new Brighton campus
In BC's dining halls, campus conference rooms, and local eateries, finding food for thought
The uncertain journey of American Catholics.
An excerpt from the author's latest novel, Awake.
Twenty-five years after the rise of the 401(k), will the baby boomers—and their younger co-workers to follow—go bust?
The American Catholic Church remade childhood. That was a mistake.
Andrea Cabral '81 straightened out the notorious Suffolk County jails. Now she has to face the voters.
Dick Carpenter '55 is hand-drawing his way across 1946 America. And he's gaining a following.
Rediscovering a subversive prayer.
Dispatches from the new Higgins.
Distrustful of institutions, Americans have created their own intimate and distinctive religious associations.
Tom McCarthy '88 took just 15 years to achieve overnight success.
Black in the south, Irish in the north, the Healys slipped the bonds of race in Civil War America.
Five manifestations of the Muslim vision.
Confessions of a natural-born Catholic.
When he was eleven, the author left his mother and sisters and, with his rogue of a father, lit out for the West. Excerpts from Michael C. Keith’s memoir, The Next Better Place
To his followers, Bernard Lonergan, SJ, was the most important theologian, psychologist, economist, philosopher you never heard of.
The necessary art of doing nothing. An essay by Patricia Hampl
Ancient Britons took the calamitous story of Rome’s rise and fall to the grave.
R. Nicholas Burns ’78, U.S. ambassador to NATO, has served in one sensitive post after another—at the behest of both Republicans and Democrats. Profile by Charles Trueheart
The temptations of Catholic Lite.
In Weimar Germany, clothing manufacturer Siegbert Feldberg traded coats for self-portraits by so-called degenerate artists. His collection had its first American exhibition at BC’s McMullen Museum.
From cowgirl queen to beauty queen.
BC launches its initiative to consider the current crisis in the Catholic Church and the opportunities for reform and renewal.
A physicist writes on the importance of butterflies.
On its 90th birthday, and ideosyncratic tour of a few of the Tower Building's hidden treasures and untold stories.
Six comedians—one aspiring, four toiling, and one who left the business—recount the life in stand-up comedy.
The devilish, enduring "common music" of Robert Frost.
Good libraries embrace all of society’s frictions, and offer a healthy social life besides.
There’ve been nursing shortages before, but this one is different. A look at the new crisis in nursing, fanned by the baby boom generation.
Why teach at a Catholic university?
Voices from the Siege of Leningrad, newly translated.
Three writers speak of evil—Nathan Englander, Kathleen Norris, Joyce Carol Oates
The sport and show of women's boxing.
Fighting in Fairbanks.
The Catholic Jay Gatsby.
Essays by Andrew Krivak, Dennis Taylor, and Tim Townsend '91. Interviews with Erik Weihenmayer '91, Kelvie Pleas '01 and Mario Powell '03.
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