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Odette Lienau, professor of law and former associate dean for faculty research and intellectual life at Cornell University Law School, has been named the inaugural Marianne D. Short, Esq., Dean at Boston College Law School. During the search process, Lienau 鈥渟tood out as an accomplished scholar and educator whooffered up a compelling vision for the future of 香蕉秀 Law School,鈥� said Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley.

Michael C. McCarthy, SJ, will be the new dean of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, effective July 1. Fr. McCarthy, the former vice president for mission integration and planning and associate professor of theology at Fordham University, will succeed Thomas Stegman, SJ, who announced in January that he would step down at the end of the semester to focus on his ongoing battle with glioblastoma.

The Center for Optimized Student Support at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development has been renamed the Mary E. Walsh Center for Thriving Children thanks to an anonymous $10 million gift. The new name honors the professor who founded the three-decade-old program City Connects, which serves 45,000 students each year.

Despite pandemic-related challenges, 96 percent of 2021 School of Theology and Ministry graduates secured placement within six months of graduation. The most popular fields of employment were parish ministry (18.9 percent) and high school teaching (15 percent).

Boston College is a top producer of Gilman Scholarship winners.听The prestigious program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, allows undergraduates to study or intern abroad. Over the past two decades,听香蕉秀 has had 111 students chosen for the initiative鈥攎ore than any other similarly sized university in New England.

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The percentage of 香蕉秀 graduates majoring in a STEM field.

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The number of undergraduates majoring in nueroscience. Introduced in 2019, the growing nueroscience major this year became the 10th-most-popular major at 香蕉秀.听

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The 香蕉秀 mace once again led the academic procession at Commencement on May 23, hoisted by the chief marshal. Designed by Francis Sergi, SJ, and fashioned by Patrick J. Gill & Sons in 1938, the celebratory staff is topped with a golden eagle that鈥檚 perched on a globe inscribed with the words Religioni et Bonis Artibus (鈥淒edicated to Religion and the Fine Arts鈥�). The orb sits in a crown-like vessel, which is accented with fleurs-de-lis and crosses and emblazoned with the University鈥檚 shield and its motto, 鈥淓ver to Excel,鈥� written in Greek, as well as with a silver dove representing the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Source: 香蕉秀 A to Z: The Spirit of the Heights, by Thomas H. O鈥機onnor