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Boston College images, from a dance marathon to a Shabbat service in the McMullen Museum
Freshman faculty
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Newcomers’ interests, from human–robot interaction to an 18th-century Damascus barber
When Boston burned
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Images of the “Great Boston Fire” on exhibit at the Burns Library.
Caught in the act
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Scenes from the creation of Ashley’s Purpose, a student stage production about a young woman who became a celebrity after being freed by an armed fugitive who kidnapped her.
Freshman faculty
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Newcomers, from a victims’ advocate to a chemist generating clean energy with nanotechnology
“Hail, Alma Mater”
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The sights and sounds of the University’s 131st Commencement exercises
Crunch time
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Students talk about study techniques and sleep deprivation as they prepare for final exams.
Hidden masters
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A curator’s tour of personal favorites from the McMullen Museum’s foray into a neglected sector of European art.
The art of football
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BC bowl posters from the 1940s and 1980s. The Eagles will go to their eighth consecutive bowl game on December 30.
Freshman class
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A synthesist, a catalyzer, a climatologist, and an appreciative interpreter of Islamic culture are among the 29 faculty who begin work at Boston College this year.
Daily grace
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The McMullen Museum’s exhibition of Islamic decorative art, Cosmophilia, features more than 120 objects from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries.
Inquiring minds
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Portraits of Scholars of the College and their faculty advisors, who talk about their students’ research topics, from Simone de Beauvoir to pterocellin A.
Dual purpose
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Highlights from Secular/Sacred, an exhibition of medieval art and objects, currently at the McMullen Museum.
Oft-told tales: How Gulliver grew
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From book to movies to tchotchkes, how Gulliver grew and grew and grew.
Card catalog
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The Cuala Press was a family-run business in Dublin for most of the 20th century. The family, however, happened to be named Yeats, and among their products was a series of Christmas cards that drew upon the talents of Ireland’s best writers and artists.
Warming up
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Sights and sounds from the University’s new music practice studios in Lyons Hall.
Celluloid dreams
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BC honors student filmmakers at the first annual Baldwin Awards.
“Accommodations of Desire”
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Images from the McMullen Museum’s exhibit of surrealist art from the remarkable collection of Julien Levy.
Mr. Shaw
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A new exhibition at the Burns Library reveals a willful, vegetarian, health-obsessed, literary dynamo whose wit still delights, even if his political theories no longer persuade.
A child is born
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From the McMullen Museum, Burns Library, and St. Mary’s Hall, nine portrayals of Mary and Jesus.
Family feud
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A review of highlights (and lowlights) of the BC-Holy Cross football rivalry, from its initiation in 1896, to its demise 82 games later in 1986.
Prime movers
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Reunion attendees recall (and are reunited with) faculty members who changed their lives.
The way we were
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A near-century of commencement snapshots from the Burns Library archives, spanning Henry V. Cunningham, who received BC’s first honorary degree in 1892, and Lionel Ritchie, who sang a hit single in Alumni Stadium in 1986.
Major concerns
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Fifteen faculty members who were promoted to tenure or to full professor this year answer the question: What’s on your mind?
Rock around the clock
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Part party, part endurance test, an 18-hour dance marathon organized by BC students wore out plenty of sneakers and raised thousands for Children’s Hospital Boston.
Inner fire
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Gargan Hall’s stained glass windows are resplendent with color and light. They are also by turns reverent, mysterious, and whimsical.
History lesson
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Boston College’s recent Reflections in Black exhibit attracted an unusually youthful museum audience.
Page turner
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Take a journey through Boston College’s two-millionth volume, a 1613 scientific treatise by Galileo Galilei.
Reflections in Black
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Selected images from the recent McMullen Museum exhibit of African-American photography.