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Passion, Faith, Service, Love—Bob Woodruff Offers BC Class of 2012 Words to Live By
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Award-winning network journalist Bob Woodruff told the approximately 4,400 undergraduate and graduate students at the university’s 136th Commencement Exercises to let passion, faith, service and love guide their lives more »
Honorary Degree Citations
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The University presented awards to five honorary degree recipients at Commencement Excercises on May 21 more »
O'Connor Was Historian for Boston and BC
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Thomas H. O’Connor, Boston College’s University Historian and long-popular professor emeritus of history who was widely considered “the dean of Boston’s historians” died at his Milton home May 20 more »
$5 Million Gift for Hockey Is a Tribute to Jerry York
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Boston College has received a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor to endow its men’s ice hockey head coaching position, the largest gift ever in support of a BC athletics team more »
$15 Million Gift Gives New Alumni Ctr. a Name
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Patrick F. Cadigan ’57, the retired CEO and President of Electronic Engineering Company of California has made a $15 million pledge to name the alumni center at Boston College more »
Germain Appointed to Head Lynch Leadership Academy
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Thaly Germain, a former school principal who has been developing school leaders with the national non-profit New Leaders, has been named the director of the Lynch Leadership Academy more »
Finding Strength in Community
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Daniel J. Kennedy’s devotion to faith as a vehicle for service to others, combined with his strong academic record, has earned him the Edward H. Finnegan, SJ, Memorial Award — Boston College’s most prestigious graduation honor. more »
A New Look for the Plaza
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By this fall, the plaza in front of O’Neill Library will have a vastly different look, with grass replacing much of the concrete and trees ringing the periphery more »
Shrayer Selected for Guggenheim Fellowship
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2012 fellowship to Professor of Slavic and Eastern Languages Maxim D. Shrayer more »
University Says a Big ‘Thank You’ to Fr. Woods
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The Boston College community opened its collective heart last week to one of its most beloved members: retiring Woods College of Advancing Studies Dean and namesake James A. Woods, SJ. more »