Montserrat Coalition Director Michael Davidson, S.J., was honored by the Archdiocese of Boston with the 2025 Bishop Healy Award. https://on.bc.edu/HealyAward_Davidson

Award-winning poet C. Dale Young '91's newest collection has been described as a “tour de force." https://on.bc.edu/PoetCDY_BCB

In collaboration with School of Social Work, BC Continuing Education offers seminars, workshops to earn CEUs, and the Certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice for Children, Youth, and Families for experienced clinicians. Visit https://on.bc.edu/CEOfferings to learn more & view the spring schedule.

Hosffman Ospino MA '03, PhD '07, started out wanting to become a priest. Instead, the Clough School Professor has emerged as one of the nation’s leading researchers into the many ways that Hispanics are transforming the experience of American Catholicism. https://on.bc.edu/HosffmanOspino_BCM

Political Science Professor Peter Skerry is leading a national effort to help tone down the rhetoric and mistrust engulfing U.S. politics. https://on.bc.edu/BraverAngels

AI is still new on college campuses, but it’s already transforming how professors teach and how students learn. @wgbh.org's Kirk Carapezza visited schools for "College Uncovered" and spoke to professors & students, including BC English Professor Carlo Rotella. https://apple.co/4bjP6Ai

Congratulations to our 6️⃣ Eagles who made the USA Hockey rosters and will play for 🏅 in Milan in February! #WeAreBC 🦅 🔗 M Hockey: https://bit.ly/TeamUSA_MIH 🔗 W Hockey: https://bit.ly/TeamUSA_WIH

Lynch School's Ido Davidesco received a $1.5M NSF grant to lead a project on advancing computational thinking and microelectronics education. https://on.bc.edu/DavidescoNSFGrant

BC Law Professor Ray Madoff, author of “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy," appeared on the “It Turns Out” podcast to discuss how the American tax system has changed over the past 40 years, widening inequality. https://bit.ly/Madoff_Conversation121725

More of what we love 👏👏 Pure joy from #BC2030 when learning about becoming an Eagle ❤️🦅

On #NationalBirdDay, there is only one to celebrate 🦅

ICYMI - PBS @NewsHour visited BC's Messina College as part of its "Rethinking College" series: https://to.pbs.org/4pEOOIZ

The Center for Corporate Citizenship's Colleen Olphert joined the Speak Up! Podcast to talk about the "spirit of caring" and "wellness with a purpose," including the positive effects of volunteerism and purpose-driven work. https://bit.ly/Olphert_SUPod121525

#PayPal is seeking a banking charter that would allow it to boost its lending business. BC Law Professor Patricia McCoy weighs in for the @washingtonpost.com#PayPal https://wapo.st/4pIIHTD

BC Professor John Michalczyk places the anti-Semitic visual imagery of a Nazi war criminal in historical, aesthetic, religious, and political context in his new book. https://on.bc.edu/HatefulImagery_BCB

📚 @commonwealmag reviews Historian James M. O’Toole's 'For I Have Sinned,' in which he traces the collapse of confession in America. https://bit.ly/OToole_Commonweal120325

Here's to a new year, Eagles 💫

With the new year upon us, a quick look back at the top @bostoncollege Instagram posts from 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣. Happy New Year, Eagles! 🎆

On Pete Frates '07's birthday, friends, family, and supporters participated in the “Plunge for Pete” to honor the former BC Baseball captain & ALS champion and raise funds for the disease. More on WHDH: https://bit.ly/PlungeforPete_7News122725

Project Entrepreneur held its pitch night for the ninth time at the end of the fall semester. Twelve formerly incarcerated individuals who had received legal advice from BC Law’s Project Entrepreneur clinic pitched business ideas that serve the community. https://on.bc.edu/ProjectEntrepreneur2025

The Boston College Strong Scholarship supports BC students who have overcome adversity. Alexander Fagan ’29, Kelly Giancotti ’28, and Nora McCabe ’28 are the newest recipients. https://on.bc.edu/BCStrong2025

Human empathy, compassion, and justice can make a politics of compromise & constructive conflict possible, says Lisa Sowle Cahill,@bctheology.bsky.social Prof. Her remarks were part of @commonweal.bsky.social's collection on the future of Christian democracy. https://bit.ly/Cahill_Commonweal112525

🎥 Global Public Health Program Director Philip Landrigan '63, MD, explains why children must be at the center of environmental and public policy for @unicef.org's Children's Environmental Health Collaborative https://youtu.be/Q5J_LyMpKZY

Through a Lilly Endowment grant, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies launched the AMDG program. Participants from 25 high schools, parishes, and universities joined the Ever to Excel program to deepen faith, discover gifts, and partake in a transformative journey. https://youtu.be/nNSm7_XU-Ho

Jonathan Bertulis-Fernandes JD’24 was selected for a Skadden Foundation Fellowship, which provides recent law graduates the opportunity to pursue the practice of public interest law on a full-time basis. https://on.bc.edu/BertulisFernandesPSF

This fall, the Irish Institute launched a guest essay series. Former US Senator George Mitchell was the inaugural essayist. He served as the independent chairman of the Northern Ireland peace talks, which resulted in the Good Friday Agreement. https://on.bc.edu/IrishInst_GuestEssay112025

On this episode of Office Hours, Sister Jeanmarie Gribaudo, C.S.J., (maybe better known as Sister Jean) talks about her role as a professor in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Woods for Others, BC's Prison Education program, and more. https://youtu.be/DkzAiykdFUk

🗓️ As the year draws to a close, check out the posts that garnered the most comments, likes, and shares on social media. 📲 https://on.bc.edu/2025inReview

🎉 Big congratulations are in order for BC Golf Director and Head Coach Drew Kayser, who received the Golf Coaches Association of America's Labron Harris Sr. Award. #WeAreBC 🦅 ⛳️ https://bit.ly/Kayser_LabronHarrisAward

Connell School Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess joined the "Remarkable People" podcast to talk about her case and trial experiences and her book, "Expert Witness," which provides a look inside testifying in court and advocating for victims. https://bit.ly/Burgess_GK120325

Marina Lopes '11's new book, "Please Yell at My Kids," examines different styles of parenting around the world. https://on.bc.edu/MLopes_BCB

In an op-ed for the @hechingerreport.org, BC Professor Debbie Hogan advocates for mental health training for collegiate coaches and more resources to help student-athletes cope as the landscape continues to change. https://bit.ly/Hogan_HR121525

Happy Friday, Eagles ❄️ 📸: Margaret Hon '28

Merry Christmas, Eagles ❤️

"And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth" - Luke 1:14

Congratulations to BC Football linebacker Bryce Steele '25, '26, one of the student-athletes named 2025 Comeback Player of the Year by College Sports Communicators and the Fiesta Bowl. He is the first Eagle to ever win the award. #WeAreBC 🦅 https://bit.ly/SteeleCPOTTY

🎉 Carroll School Professor Vanessa Conzon is among Poets&Quants' best undergraduate business professors for 2025. https://bit.ly/Conzon_PQ120125

BC seniors Thomas Scordino and Sophia Paranzino first met aboard the Newton shuttle bus. Four years later, that’s where they got engaged. https://on.bc.edu/RidetoRemember

Kevin Powers, faculty director of the Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity, Risk & Governance at BC Law School, discusses the future of cybersecurity leadership as it relates to AI, governance, and education in an interview with CSO Cyber Sessions. https://bit.ly/Powers_CSO111925

We wish you a Merry Christmas, BC 🎄 https://youtu.be/iXaFwSM4tpo

A newly launched interdisciplinary minor offered by the Theology department will help undergraduates explore technical and scientific fields from a humanistic and theological perspective. https://on.bc.edu/TheoSciTechMinor

Ty Clemons '25, '26 (Football) & Michaela O'Connor '26 (Lacrosse) were recognized as 2025 Food Lion Community MVPs by the ACC. #WeAreBC 🦅 https://bit.ly/CommunityMVPs2025

School of Social Work Dean Gautam Yadama was awarded an honorary degree from the National University of Mongolia in recognition of his dedicated service and outstanding contributions to social policy and the development and growth of social work in Mongolia. https://on.bc.edu/Yadama_NUM

Poinsettias and Prayer: Philosophy Professor Marina McCoy writes an advent reflection for this Christmas season. https://bit.ly/McCoy_IgnatianSpirituality_Advent

Happy (official) First Day of Winter, Eagles! ❄️

As @bostonlegacyfc.com prepares for its inaugural season in the @nwslsoccer.com, they will have a familiar face from the Boston area: BC women's soccer midfielder Sophia Lowenberg signed with the team. ⚽️ Good luck, Sophia! #WeAreBC 🦅 https://bit.ly/Lowenberg_BDC120325

Some question the “return on investment” from humanities courses, but English Professor Carlo Rotella says that misses the point of what’s going on in the classroom. In his new book, he contends that teaching is not about a clean transfer of knowledge. https://on.bc.edu/CRotella_BCB

An overwhelming number of pregnant women in the U.S. receive late or no prenatal care, and 80% of maternal deaths are preventable. Nursing student Ava Holland '26 breaks down the crisis and what needs to change in an op-ed for the Hartford Courant. https://bit.ly/Holland_HC112525

In an essay for America Magazine, Vice Provost and @bctheology.bsky.social Professor James Keenan, S.J., writes on vulnerability and collectivity in good teaching. https://bit.ly/Keenan_America120525

As the fall semester comes to a close, we hope our Eagles have a safe journey home and a wonderful break. We will miss you on the Heights 💛