By: Eleanor Hildebrandt
According to the Boston College Chronicle, the Academic Quad-located in the center of Devlin, Fulton, Lyons and Gasson Halls-will undergo landscaping changes this summer. The renovation will begin the day after Commencement, May 21, and is scheduled to finish before classes resume in the fall.
By: Eleanor Hildebrandt
Boston College’s Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza announced on May 6 that he will be stepping down from his position on June 30 of this year. He will take a yearlong leave of absence from the University and will return to BC as a professor in the fall of 2014.
When Mary Joe Hughes was an undergraduate student at Radcliffe College, in the years before it merged completely with Harvard University, she sat in on an MIT class about existentialism and literature.
What do BC Splash, BC Talks, BC NESTS, and BC Ignites all have in common?
By: Adriana Mariella
Tim Koch, A&S ’14, knows the meaning of being a man for others. He has spent his now three years at Boston College helping to shape the BC community and the student experience through both his work as an Orientation Leader (OL) and his involvement in UGBC.
By: David Cote and Andrew Skaras
Starting during the Vietnam War, average grades at universities nationwide began to climb steadily, a trend that has not stopped since. At the time, professors were unwilling to give students low grades, as a poor GPA could jeopardize their military exemption status and result in their being sent to fight and possibly die overseas.
Rachel Newmiller, A&S ’13, is busier than most other college seniors are at this time of year-in New York for the weekend for a fundraiser and at a ceremony the following Monday to receive the Brian D.A. Hall Award for her commitment to service to Boston College’s Campus School.
Lizzie Jekanowski A&S ’13, doesn’t stop moving. She doesn’t just speak, she acts, using her hands just as much as her voice to tell her story.
By: Eleanor Hildebrandt
During the last academic year, the Office of AHANA Student Programs (OASP) and the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs conducted a climate survey about diversity on campus. This past spring, smaller focus groups were convened in order to gather more information about questions that sprang up as a result of the original survey and could not be answered with any preexisting institutional data.
By: David Cote
A lot has changed in the chemistry department since Lawrence Scott first came to Boston College.
The current Louise and Jim Vanderslice and Family professor in chemistry arrived on the Heights in 1993, just after the construction of Merkert Hall, still the only academic building on campus dedicated to a single department.
