Campus digest

Flour power

The undergraduate Baking Club of Boston College

Shared experience

In a pilot program, senior women gain mentors

Life with exabytes

Thinking big at the annual research symposium

Almost perfect

The year of women's hockey

Decision 2016

The candidates campaigned for laughs. Then fate intervened

Consumer insights

The marketing department's new research center

Close-up

Paint by numbers

From the 2016 Arts Festival

The Fall of Summer

The new necessities

A lifestyle brought to you by rare metals

White shadow

Ken Howard (1944–2016), a.k.a. Ken Reeves '64

The lady of the tower

Who was Margaret Elizabeth Ford?

Lost bards of Boston

Selections from a new volume of forgotten poems

On the cover: At the April 22 meeting of the Research and Science Strategic Planning Committee (from left): Ethan Baxter, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences; Michael Pimental, executive director of strategic services in the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment; and Kelli Armstrong, vice president for research, planning, and assessment. Photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

News from home

In 1916 an outrage in Dublin touched the Irish in Boston

by James M. O'Toole

Crowdsourcing

How the University makes its way—visits to five engine rooms

Photographs by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Unplanned

Life with George

by Dennis Taylor

The ‘op-ed’ pope

Three years into Francis's tenure, a diverse panel reflects on his theology

by William Bole

A Catholic Ireland?

Not for the first time in Irish history, Catholics are many in name, few in the pews

by Patsy McGarry

Behind right and wrong

A psychologist investigates the neuroscience of morality

Feats of clay

Ceramicist Isabelle Abramson '07

"History Lesson," "Men about Campus," "A Family Affair," "Dorm Master," "Shelf Life," "American Spycraft," "Sail On," "Taste Test"

Rules of order