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09/03/2026

Osamase Ekhator ’17 went from being a ‘wannabe sneakerhead’ to an innovator at one of the world’s top footwear brands.

Ekhator has turned his love of sneakers into a unique career

09/03/2026

In 1949, Seavey Joyce, SJ, was flying into Logan Airport to begin teaching at Boston College. As he told reporters years later, he looked down on a sparse skyline and asked himself, “Where is Boston?”

Five years later, Boston mayor John B. Hynes and Fr. Joyce helped launch the Citizen Seminars, a series of high-level gatherings widely credited with planting the seeds of “the New Boston,” a modern, thriving city.

Hosted at the Carroll School of Management at BC, the seminars offered a neutral ground for public conversations about Boston’s predicament. Remarkably, the dialogue partners included what the late Boston College University Historian Thomas O’Connor called “the two most hostile elements in Boston politics”—Irish Catholic politicians and Protestant Brahmin business leaders. Hundreds of leaders from all sectors participated in multiple sessions each year, tracing through a maze of challenges, from transportation and energy to infrastructure and private-public cooperation.

The Citizen Seminars, with John T. Galvin ’37 at the helm, continued to “influence the course of Boston’s history,” O’Connor wrote in The Heights in 1988. The latter-day seminars, presented by the BC Chief Executives Club, highlighted topics such as school reform and the need for vibrant city parks before fading out in the early 2010s.

For his part, Joyce went on to become Boston College’s president from 1968 to 1972, steering the University through a tempestuous era of student uprisings. When he died in 1988, his successor as president, J. Donald Monan, SJ, paid tribute to Joyce as one who “turned the face of Boston College outward to the civic community and, through his endeavors, enriched both.”

🔗 https://on.bc.edu/CityCounsel_CC

09/02/2026

PlusAI plans to roll out self-driving freight trucks next year. Boston College Law School alumnus Earl Adams Jr. ’02 is making sure it happens safely. More in Boston College Magazine ⤵️

The company PlusAI plans to roll out self-driving freight trucks next year. Earl Adams Jr. JD’02 is making sure it happens safely.

09/02/2026

The first of many great BC traditions! Here's to the start of your journey, Class of 2030! 🦅

🎥: Ravi Jain MBA '24, Office of University Communications;

09/01/2026

It's great to be back, isn't it, Eagles?! 🤩

🎥: Ariana Cho ‘18, ‘21, Office of University Communications

09/01/2026

The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College presents the exclusive exhibition "Shadows and Light: Symbolist Art in Belgium; Works from the Hearn Family Trust" from September 8 through December 6.

The exhibition showcases the most significant private collection of Belgian symbolist art in North America, assembled over more than four decades by Charles Hack, a New York-based real estate investor and prominent art collector.

In 2024, Hack donated 36 important works to the McMullen, making it the holder of one of the foremost collections of nineteenth-century Belgian landscapes in the world. Hack collaborated closely with Shadows and Light's curator, Boston College Art, Art History, and Film Department History Professor Emeritus Jeffery Howe, as the exhibition developed, both on the selection of pieces from his collection and on new acquisitions.

The display features more than 150 major paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by Belgian and other European artists in their orbit.

“Drawing on new research, this exhibition probes how Belgian artists explored psychological experience and the visible world, shaping the international symbolist movement during a formative period in the emergence of modern art,” said museum director and professor Nancy Netzer.

🔗 https://on.bc.edu/McMullenFall2026

09/01/2026

Boston College scientists have determined a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1.27 billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine source on the Red Planet.

Boston College scientists determine a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is derived from a previously unsampled Red Planet region

09/01/2026

There is nothing like the feeling of the FDOC. Welcome back, Eagles! ❤️🦅

📸: Caitlin Cunningham MS' 26 & Matt Healey, Office of University Communications

08/31/2026

Happy First Day of Classes, Eagles! 🦅 It's certainly great to be back 💛

08/30/2026

One more sleep till we're ✨officially✨ back, Eagles! 🦅

🎥: Alex Orav MS’23, Office of University Communications