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Boston College receives a record $75M gift

September 2, 2021 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Boston College has received a gift worth about $75 million it plans to use for scholarships, academic programming, facilities improvements, and operation of an on-campus theater, the school announced Thursday.

Some angered by Boston College’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

July 13, 2021 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Some Boston College students and their parents are angered by the Catholic school's refusal to grant religious exemptions to people who don't want to get a coronavirus vaccine because of a purported link to aborted fetal tissue.

North sets goals record, BC wins 1st women’s lacrosse title

May 30, 2021 GMT

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Charlotte North broke the single season NCAA goals record and No. 4 seed Boston College won its first women’s lacrosse national championship with a 16-10 win over No. 3 seed Syracuse in the NCAA championship game on Sunday.

ACC purring with six teams in NCAA lacrosse final fours

By The Associated PressMay 28, 2021 GMT

Championship weekend in both men's and women's Division I lacrosse has a uniform feel — three Atlantic Coast Conference teams and one from the Big Ten in each tournament.

Each also features the top four seeds, which means North Carolina, the top seed in both, remains in the hunt for a sweep for the second time in five years.

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November 5, 2019 GMT

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Malloy to teach at Boston College Law School when he leaves office

Emilie MunsonOctober 3, 2018 GMT

First, there was General Electric’s departure for Boston. Then, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, formerly of New Haven, decamped there.

Now, Boston will be the workplace of Connecticut’s governor — when he leaves office, that is.

Former UN chief scheduled to speak at Boston College

February 27, 2018 GMT

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) — Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is making an appearance at Boston College...

Boston Marathon bombing survivors award scholarship

October 23, 2017 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Two amputee survivors of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing have awarded a scholarship to a college sophomore who lost a leg to cancer as a child...

Students in France acid attack show compassion for assailant

By RODRIQUE NGOWISeptember 18, 2017 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — American college students attacked with acid at a train station in France have offered compassion and prayers for their assailant, who authorities say suffers from a mental illness...

France: Acid attack on 4 US students not seen as terror act

BY PHILIPPE SOTTOSeptember 18, 2017 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Four American college students were attacked with acid Sunday at a train station in France, but French authorities so far do not think extremist views motivated the 41-year-old woman who was arrested as the alleged assailant, the local prosecutor's office and the students' school said...

Turning James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ into a virtual reality game

By PHILIP MARCELOMarch 17, 2017 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Students are developing a virtual reality game based on James Joyce's "Ulysses" as part of a class at Boston College...

NCAA honors man who inspired ALS ice bucket challenge

By RODRIQUE NGOWIDecember 14, 2016 GMT

BEVERLY, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that has raised millions of dollars for ALS research received a hand-delivered award from the NCAA on Tuesday.

Pete Frates, the former Boston College baseball captain who touched off the viral-video craze, was given the NCAA's 2017 Inspiration Award at a ceremony in his living room.

Boston College details field house plans

Donna GoodisonNovember 22, 2016 GMT

Boston College has filed plans with the city for a new athletic field house on Shea Field on the school’s lower campus in Brighton.

The 115,700-square-foot field house with an 86,700-square-foot synthetic turf surface — large enough for a full-size football field — would provide indoor playing and practice space for BC’s football team and other varsity, club and intramural sports teams.