Boston College Front Row

At a colloquium held by the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Department of the Lynch School of Education, Michelle Fine discusses research regarding disadvantaged youth and the justice system. Fine is Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Urban Education, and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

James Fleming, SJ, MA'83 is the director of mission planning and ministry at the Office of University Mission and Ministry. He presents a last lecture comments about what he findsmost important and essential aboutthe place of spirit in learning at a Jesuit institution.

James Fleming, SJ, MA'83 is the director of mission planning and ministry at the Office of University Mission and Ministry. He presents a last lecture comments about what he findsmost important and essential aboutthe place of spirit in learning at a Jesuit institution.

Sachiko Murata and William Chittick are professors of religious studies at Stony Brook University. Murata presents a lecture titledThe Neo-Confucian Sympathies of Chinese Muslims, followed Chittick, who discusses the Sufi influence of Chinese Muslim thought.

Sachiko Murata and William Chittick are professors of religious studies at Stony Brook University. Murata presents a lecture titledThe Neo-Confucian Sympathies of Chinese Muslims, followed Chittick, who discusses the Sufi influence of Chinese Muslim thought.

Milton scholar Barbara Lewalski, the William R. Keenan Professor of English at Harvard University, presents a paper titledMilton and the World of God: Issues of Interpretation in the Bible and in Paradise Lost.

Milton scholar Barbara Lewalski, the William R. Keenan Professor of English at Harvard University, presents a paper titledMilton and the World of God: Issues of Interpretation in the Bible and in Paradise Lost.

Alan Schoenfeld, who holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in Education at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about his research into building mathematical models of the actions people take and the decisions they make while performing routine tasks.

Alan Schoenfeld, who holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in Education at the University of California, Berkeley, talks about his research into building mathematical models of the actions people take and the decisions they make while performing routine tasks.

Robert Maryks is on the faculty of the City University of New York's Lehman College Department of History, and is author of The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews: Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry and Purity-of-Blood Laws in the Early Society of Jesus (2009). In his lecture he discusses his book, whichtells the story of the evolution of the discriminatory concept of purity of blood, its complex nature, its magnitude in the early Society of Jesus and the role Christians of Jewish ancestry played in the order.