Boston College News

Ex Libris Group announced the first academic institutions to begin collaborating with the Company as development partners for its groundbreaking Unified Resource Management framework - the next-generation framework for library management services: Boston College, Princeton University Library, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Editor's Note: After a series of drunken driving fatalities in the region, The Day is running an occasional series on the issue.Attorney Ronald F. Stevens takes on some of the toughest cases that come through the criminal court system when he represents people charged with killing someone while driving drunk.

In two days, the Penn State football program appears to have fortified its interior defensive line for years to come.

Charles A. Robinson, 70, of Ocala, FL formerly of Fairhaven, MA, died on June 18, 2009, at Ocala Regional Hospital after a short illness.

Following are recent area graduates: Brian Henry Adler graduated from Gettysburg College with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Jason Sylva showed up at Boston College camp and was one of the best linebackers there but Eagles' fans will have to wait a few years to see how his recruitment ends up.

Notre Dame has landed ESPNU 150 Watch List safety Chris Badger of Timpview who has switched his commitment from Stanford to the Irish.

AMB Property Corporation , a leading global owner, operator and developer of industrial real estate, today announced that James W. Green has joined the company as managing director, global client services.

Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College.

Children sang at the grand opening of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury Crossing on Friday.

A headline in the Ithaca Journal placed a regional spotlight on a growing local, statewide and national problem: "Retirement costs bedevil Dryden schools." The story noted that "a decrease in the value of retirement investment portfolios may force Dryden Central School District contributions to rise as much as 70 percent to make up the difference ...

For more than three decades, Barbara Ann Villano headed to work at the Ocean County Courthouse.

The state Senate confirmed Kristin E. Rodgers, daughter of retiring Superior Court Presiding Judge Joseph F. Rodgers Jr., as a Superior Court judge on Friday.

Surveying the wreckage of the residential real estate market, it's hard to remember that as recently as mid-2006, the conventional wisdom was that housing prices nationwide couldn't go down.

Nine-year-old Sarah Erritouni of Revere was busy learning calligraphy yesterday at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury.

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College where he specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic migration.

As wanna-be retirees dig through the rubble of their 401 s and the financial crisis, they're hearing about some quirky ways for claiming Social Security benefits.

By ERICA ALINI The scramble for faculty jobs is prompting graduate students and newly minted Ph.D.s to look overseas.

Councilor Stephen J. Murphy is asking the city to boost the payments that local private colleges and universities make to Boston in lieu of taxes, saying the institutions are paying too little for the municipal services their students use.

The past year has been an eventful one for Jewish-Catholic relations - there were controversies over the revival of an allegedly anti-Semitic Good Friday prayer and the lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, and then there was the visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Israel.