Samuels spoke to Boston College students and faculty on Sept. 13 about his journey documenting the contours of George Floyd’s life and his attempts to bring light to who Floyd was as a human being. The event was part of the Lowell Humanities Series at BC, co-sponsored by the Forum on Racial Justice in America and the African and African diaspora studies program.
UGBC’s Senate discussed new approaches to communicating with the Boston College community at its meeting on Tuesday night.
Boston College Residential Life Workers called for the establishment of a ResLife student workers’ union in an email sent to resident assistants (RAs) and graduate assistants on Sunday night.
Chemistry professor Jeffery A. Byers, who taught at Boston College for 13 years before he died in August, was a world-class scientist, according to Dunwei Wang.
Jineth Bedoya Lima, a Colombian journalist, women’s rights advocate, and survivor of sexual violence, shared the difficulties in living with and learning to overcome trauma during an event on Wednesday.
In the minutes leading up to 6 p.m. on Thursday night, thousands of freshmen gathered on Linden Lane, readying to march down the street and head to Conte Forum for the 2023 Freshman Convocation.
Football head coach Jeff Hafley and men’s basketball head coach Earl Grant were the highest-paid employees at Boston College during the 2022 fiscal year (FY22), according to the University’s 990 tax filings.
UGBC’s Senate held its inaugural meeting of the 2023–24 academic year on Tuesday night, highlighting plans to enact change within the organization and around Boston College’s campus.
Samantha Perlman—a third-year student at BC Law pursuing a dual degree in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University—is running for mayor of Marlborough, Mass.
Boston College economics professors Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver pioneered a matching system for the world’s first four-way liver transplant exchange program, which enabled two successful four-way exchanges within the past year.
