Category Archives: Students
Elements goes digital
Last week marked a milestone for Elements, the Boston College undergraduate research journal: its 10th anniversary and the launch of its digital platform. The publication has collaborated with Boston College Libraries to become an open access journal operating under a Creative Commons … Continue reading
Writing Out of Place
Over the summer, eight undergraduates joined Professor of English Suzanne Matson for “Writing Out of Place,” a three-week creative writing experience at the foothills of the Himalayas. The three-credit course required participants to express their experience of a new location … Continue reading
Dubliners Bookshelf
Department of English doctoral student Andrew Kuhn has edited Dubliners Bookshelf, a digital exploration into the books of James Joyce’s Dubliners. The website collects and organizes texts cited in Joyce’s short story collection, including Walter Scott’s The Abbot, Lord Byron’s Poems, and the Maynooth … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, Center for Irish Programs, English Department, Irish Studies
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope International Journal is an international relations and global studies publication run by Boston College undergraduates, with funding from the Institute for the Liberal Arts. Its goal is to promote greater awareness and understanding of international issues through research, articles … Continue reading
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Tagged Institute for the Liberal Arts, international, undergraduate journal
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Conservation lab as classroom
Last month, Burns Library Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard gave a presentation at the Association of College and Research Libraries, New England chapter annual meeting. The conference was focused on the evolution of the academic library as a place where students and faculty are … Continue reading
Medical Humanities journal
There is a new student journal at Boston College that tells stories of health, illness, caregiving, bioethics, medicine and disability in a variety of literary and artistic genres. The Medical Humanities Journal of Boston College is comprised of short stories, personal … Continue reading
Poetry Festival
Boston College will once again host the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Undergraduate Poetry Festival, an annual showcase of student verse. The event features original work by students from some 20 area colleges and universities. Boston College will be represented by Carroll School of Management … Continue reading
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Tagged English Department, poetry
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Wikipedia made better
Thanks to Boston College senior Marie Pellissier, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an informative, well-researched entry on a pioneering woman of the American West, Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915). For an assignment in Professor of History Marilynn Johnson’s course History of … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, History Department, Native American, women
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The Circle for the Class of 2018
Members of the Class of 2018 have been invited to read The Circle by Dave Eggers over the summer. The Circle touches on issues of intimacy, community, humanity, work-life balance, the role of technology in today’s society in the story of … Continue reading
Looking at Boston Strong
A new book has been published by the Boston College Presidential Scholars Class of 2016 that examines what makes Boston Strong – and what is needed to make it stronger. The Heart of This City: Boston Strong and Becoming Stronger … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, Boston Marathon, homelessness, Presidential Scholars, social justice
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