Campus digest

All hands

Showcasing student playwrights

The resident

A three-day course in the facts of fiction

Portrait by numbers

The Class of 2014

Campanella’s way

Remembering Frank

Goal tending

Boston College's other winning hockey players

Love scenes

What Paris, New York, and Boston College have in common

Presidential award

White House honors physics professor Willie Padilla

State of the nation

Over two days, optimists, pessimists, and realists convene

From the McMullen Museum

Crossroads

Poor aim

How Dodd-Frank missed half the target

Excerpt: Politician priest

From a new biography of Robert Drinan, SJ

The prodigal

A once-ardent and high-profile advocate of charter schools and high-stakes tests explains her recent conversion

Cover photograph by Gary Wayne Gilbert

Solasta, chapter one

The life and times of an invention that was going to transform solar power (and may yet do so)

by David Reich

In our time

In his talk at Boston College, a noted political theorist praises the liberal arts for compelling discipline and discomfort, experience and a certain kindness

by Alan Ryan

In the image

To pray with an icon

by Khaled Anatolios

‘Spiritually rising’

Preparing the laity

by William Bole

Coming events

A sample of spring programming from C21

The alienist’s bias

Sorting the mentally ill by race

Net worker

Third World technology provider Timothy Anderson '73

"In her time," "Dustbowl days," "The cage," "The bOp," "Joyce's way," "The artist's way," "Promoting from within," "Facing family history"

Stuntman