Guerrilla orchestra
Audio Slideshow from @BC
Student musicians join members of the Callithumpian Consort in a composition lacking score but not action.
Night shift
A Boston College Minute
Date: December 11–12, 2012
Time: 5 p.m. to 9 a.m.
Place: Gargan Hall, in Bapst Library
Note: Exams begin December 13.
‘Bells’ and St. Mary’s
Audio Slideshow from @BC
On January 1, the chapel in St. Mary’s Hall will close as the Jesuit residence undergoes 24 months of renovations. View the chapel’s stained glass windows to the music of the University Chorale.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
December 2012 | From Arabian Nights to bronze Irish heads, the holiday tree lighting to a new head coach, scenes from the past four weeks.
Speed walk
A Boston College Minute
On October 26, 2012, senior Michelle Dyer, a history major from Ossining, New York, led visitors on a tour of the campus.
Speakers’ corner
Video from @BC
Taking a cue from a popular online lecture series, eight students with a passion for independent study addressed their peers at this fall’s BCTalks.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
November 2012 | From pumpkins to presidents, celebrations to remembrance, scenes from the past four weeks.
Freshman faculty
Slideshow from @BC
A sampling of the 47 tenure-track faculty who joined Boston College for the 2012-13 academic year.
Caught on film
Slideshow from @BC
An elusive photographer left enduring images of the early Heights.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
October 2012 | From career fair to cultural fare, scenes from the past four weeks.
Celebrate
Slideshow from @BC
Boston College’s Sesquicentennial observance begins, with a Mass for some 20,000 alumni, students, faculty, and friends in Fenway Park.
Curator’s cut
Video from @BC
John Sallis, philosopher and curator of the McMullen Museum’s show of 66 works by the artist Paul Klee, spotlights three telling pieces.
Field studies
A Boston College Minute
The Screaming Eagles Marching Band in training, Alumni Stadium, August 29, 2012.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
September 2012 | From move-in day to torchlight parade, scenes from the past three weeks.
How I will spend my summer vacation
Slideshow from @BC
Interviews with faculty who will be making introductions, plotting, building bridges, and more, courtesy of University TAM grants.
Googled: Denise Morrison ’75
Research from @BC
Interviews with and profiles of the CEO of Campbell Soup.
Sloan rangers
Audio Slideshow from @BC
Four University scientists who recently received a prestigious early-career fellowship describe their work.
Emerald isle
Interactive Feature from @BC
This summer, the brick and concrete expanse of O’Neill Plaza will be replaced by trees and lawn.
Roadrunners
Video from @BC
More than 290 undergraduates teamed up to run this year’s Boston Marathon. An interview with two of them.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
May 2012 | From a hockey rally to a Bollywood Dream, scenes from the last six weeks.
Pop quiz: The beginning
Video from @BC
On March 23, a year and nine days before the date that will mark the 150th anniversary of the University’s charter, @BC sent a camera crew to O’Neill Plaza for the founding facts—selecting students at random for a good-natured history test.
Problem in A minor
A Boston College Minute
An introduction to mathematician Dawei Chen’s research, Carney 305, February 15, 2012.
Merit scholars
Slideshow from @BC
On March 15, University President William P. Leahy, SJ, announced the names of 13 newly tenured faculty members.
Final round
Video from @BC
Ten acts, chosen from 52 auditions, were featured in the eighth annual BC Idol competition in Robsham Theater on February 16. A handful of local youngsters entertained too.
How do we write?
Video from @BC
Toward the end of his three-day residency, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Junot Díaz fielded questions from students in Gasson Commons.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
March 2012 | From sticks in the bubble to paint brushes in Virginia, scenes from the last six weeks.
Perfect harmony
Video from @BC
Ninety-two past and present members of the Bostonians a capella group performed at the 25th anniversary concert in Devlin Hall on December 10.
Portfolio
Slideshow from @BC
February 2012 | From decision time to ice time to the power lunch, scenes from the last six weeks.
Going up
A Boston College Minute
Behind the scenes of a new special exhibition, Rural Ireland: The Inside Story, filmed at the McMullen Museum, January 23–February 2, 2012.
Fr. Jack Butler on Laetare Sunday
Video from @BC
Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, S.J., delivers the address at Boston College’s 61st annual Laetare Sunday celebration in Conte Forum on March 18, 2012. The event marks the traditional midpoint of the Lenten season.