Boston College Front Row

Students selected by their professors at 25 Boston-area colleges and universities read from their own poetry at this annual event. Irish poet, editor, and publisher Peter Fallon delivers the keynote address.

Students selected by their professors at 25 Boston-area colleges and universities read from their own poetry at this annual event. Irish poet, editor, and publisher Peter Fallon delivers the keynote address.

Author Lee Woodruff speaks to more than 300 people gathered in the Yawkey Center about the journey she and her family embarked on after her husband, journalist Bob Woodruff, suffered a near-fatal traumatic brain injury while on assignment in Iraq in 2006. Her talk, “Family Journey, Recovery, and Resilience: A Caregiver’s Perspective” is part of the Connell School of Nursing’s Pinnacle Lecture Series, which invites speakers to campus each semester to address issues at the forefront of healthcare today.

Author Lee Woodruff speaks to more than 300 people gathered in the Yawkey Center about the journey she and her family embarked on after her husband, journalist Bob Woodruff, suffered a near-fatal traumatic brain injury while on assignment in Iraq in 2006. Her talk, “Family Journey, Recovery, and Resilience: A Caregiver’s Perspective” is part of the Connell School of Nursing’s Pinnacle Lecture Series, which invites speakers to campus each semester to address issues at the forefront of healthcare today.

Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, spoke to the Boston College community about the Politics and Policies of Inclusion. The address given on April 2, 2013, was co-hosted by the BC Social Work Immigrant Integration Lab as part of the Mary Mason Field Appreciation Breakfast Event.

Ernesto Cortés, co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), talks about social entrepreneurships role in democratic citizenship as part of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Lifes 12th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture.

Ernesto Cortés, co-director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), talks about social entrepreneurships role in democratic citizenship as part of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Lifes 12th Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture.

Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Ph.D., delivers the second annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations. He is the Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Rabbi Michael J. Cook, Ph.D., delivers the second annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations. He is the Bronstein Professor of Judeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Panelists Eric Gregory, professor of religion at Princeton University, Susan Crawford Sullivan, assistant professor of sociology and Edward Bennett Williams Fellow at the College of the Holy Cross, and William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, discuss poverty in the U.S. and the ways in which we (the government and citizenry) act to alleviate it.

Erik Owens, associate director of the Boisi Center and adjunct assistant professor of theology and international studies at Boston College, moderates the panel discussion.