An open letter to the Boston College community from the mother of A&S senior Michael Christopher Ruscito. Boston Herald: Friends, faculty mourn promising Boston College student
After 35 days biking across 15 states, Ryan Henry CSOM '08 and A&S classmates Dan Springer '08, Josh Springer '08, Connor Farell '08, and Jeff Klatsky '08 have completed a 3,415-mile Ride Across America to benefit the Evan Henry Foundation for Autism. More
The annual US News & World Report survey of American colleges and universities has ranked Boston College 34th among the nation's 228 national universities in its August 22 issue. Story
Find information and links to student services, programs, and events for Boston College's opening weeks in September.
Chemist Dunwei Wang and colleagues have conquered a longstanding engineering challenge in nanotechnology by creating nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that has potential applications in microelectronics and clean energy. More | UPI | Science Daily | Cellular News (UK) | Daily India | Nanotechwire
A study by BC psychologist Elizabeth Kensinger and colleagues suggests that sleep plays a key role in determining what we remember - and what we forget. Science Daily
Scientists including biologist David Burgess are placing sea urchin eggs in snug, microscopic chambers shaped like triangles, stars and ice cream cones to learn what cues tell a cell to divide at the center. Science Daily
University Historian Tom O'Connor recalls the devastating worldwide influenza epidemic ninety years after it first hit Boston. Boston Herald
A team led by BC geologist Noah Snyder will monitor changes along a 14-mile stretch of New Hampshire's Souhegan River following the removal of the century-old Merrimack Village Dam. More
Walsh Professor of Bioethics John Paris, S.J. discussed with CNN's Lou Dobbs the appearances of John McCain and Barack Obama at the Saddleback Church faith forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren. Read the program transcript (segment begins about halfway through).
Brighton native Kathleen Murphy '09, a member of the BC field hockey team, is battling multiple sclerosis. But as the Boston Herald's Steve Buckley writes, Murphy has a lot of fight in her -- and a lot of friends to help: "I'm going to keep going on and living my life until it does hit, and even if it does, I'm not going to let it slow me down." Story
In an interview on NECN, Sociologist Sharlene Hesse-Biber discusses a new government projection showing whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans by 2042. Video
Prof. of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer's anthology of Jewish-Russian literature is deemed 'amazing' and 'a fascinating cultural phenomenon in itself' by a review in the London's East European Jewish Affairs journal. More
In the Holy newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, BC theologian Rev. Robert Imbelli reviews a timely book on the intersection of faith and politics. Catholic News Agency
