play ball—On July 17, Nancy Stolze ’14 (left) readies campers for dodge ball in Campus Recreation’s summer day program on the Flynn Rec Plex outdoor basketball court. Camp BC Rec hosts 50 neighborhood children and offspring of faculty and staff, ages seven to 12. Its motto? “Ever to Excel.”
topped a ranking of “The 40 Most Popular American Universities on Instagram,” with @bostoncollege beating out the offering of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. z Having distributed 7,000 LED lightbulbs to students and replaced 700 refrigerators across campus, among other moves that helped save more than 4 million kilowatt hours last year, the University was declared a 2013 “state champion” by Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships. z Joseph Manning ’14 was among 50 awardees nationally of a Udall Scholarship, recognizing commitment to an environmental career. z Twenty-two undergraduates received Fulbright Scholarships, for work and study in Germany, Jordan, Mexico, the Philippines, and Turkey, among other destinations. In more news from the foreign desk, five undergraduates were awarded Benjamin A. Gilman
photograph: Lee Pellegrini
International Scholarships, which will fund study in Ecuador, France, South Africa, and Scotland; and two students received U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarships (for study in Suzhow, China, and Kazan, Russia). z Rantsports.com called the Boston College Eagles football team the “surprise darlings” of college football recruiting for 2014. z Mathematics professor Solomon Friedberg was appointed the James P. McIntyre Professor of Mathematics, and chemistry professor Udayan Mohanty was named a fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Chemistry. z Fellow chemistry professor and vice provost for research Larry McLaughlin and his restored 1954 Austin Healy M-100 traveled (separately) to Italy to compete in the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile rally for vintage autos manufactured between 1927 and 1957. The car was side-
lined in Rome with a broken left rear axle after 670 miles. z Séamus Connolly, Sullivan-Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Irish Programs was among nine recipients of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship. z Zach Braff, star of Garden State and Scrubs, took the stage at Robsham Theater to host the Baldwin Film Awards. “Conscious,” written and directed by James Pettigrew ’13, was the overall winner. Digest was not invited to the gala after-party thrown by the Heights. z At its season-ending meeting, the men’s crew team christened two racing sculls in honor of Denis Moran, SJ, former member of the theater department, and T. Frank Kennedy, SJ, director of the Jesuit Institute of Boston College. Fr. Kennedy, who describes himself as a “totally unathletic Jesuit,” blessed the boats. —Thomas Cooper s um m e r 20 13 v b c m
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