Boston College Magazine

11/04/2025

There are moments in comedian Cameron Esposito's latest stand-up special, "Four Pills," that play with your mind. They start more than halfway into the set, as Esposito is firing off jokes about, among other things, mental health and a recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Suddenly, mid-sentence, the red curtains that surround Esposito disappear, along with the audience and its laughter. They’re replaced by Esposito sitting in an empty, silent, stark white room, performing to no one. It’s an artistic approach to film editing that Esposito uses to capture the duality of living with bipolar disorder. Read more:

Stand-up comedian Cameron Esposito ’04 shares the healing power of laughter.

10/31/2025

Nicole Wong’s grandparents, like many in their generation of Chinese New Zealanders, were avid mahjong players. They taught the game to their four children, who competed to determine who would do the household chores, and hosted weekly sessions in which family and friends sat around a table strewn with clacking tiles, catching up over conversation. But it wasn’t until the summer after graduating from Boston College in 2009 that Wong finally learned mahjong. Today she is an expert, the author of the recent book "Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora," and a sort of ambassador for the game. Read more:

How Nicole Wong ’09 became an ambassador for mahjong, the Chinese game that’s having a huge moment in America.

10/27/2025

In the nearly four decades since he graduated from BC, Peter Bell ’86, P’20, P’25 has been an entrepreneur, a CEO, a college professor, and a BC trustee. But most consistently, he’s been a venture capitalist, helping entrepreneurs grow their crazy ideas into successful companies. Bell is one of the four BC alumni that lead SSC Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that has invested more than $5 million into 68 companies founded by Eagles. Read more about the startups SSC has helped launch here:

How SSC Ventures—a venture capital fund run by Boston College graduates—is enabling BC students and alumni to get successful startups off the ground.

10/23/2025

Under the leadership of Charlie Jacobs '94, the Boston Bruins have won their first championship since the seventies, rebuilt the team's relationships with its obsessive fans, and celebrated one hundred years in the NHL. But Jacobs believes the best is yet to come. Read more:

Under the leadership of Charlie Jacobs ’94, the Boston Bruins have won their first championship since the seventies, rebuilt the team’s relationship with its obsessive fans, and celebrated one hundred years in the NHL. Jacobs believes the best is yet to come.

10/15/2025

The Fall 2025 issue of Boston College Magazine is here! Our cover story features a wide-ranging interview with the influential Clough School of Theology and Ministry Professor Hosffman Ospino. In it, Ospino explains why a vibrant future for the Church depends on on engaging Latinos, who now account for nearly half of American Catholics. Read more:

https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/sites/bc-magazine/fall-2025-issue/features/the-church-and-latinos.html

10/10/2025

What could life look like if we worked fewer hours for the same amount of money? That’s the question Juliet Schor, an economist and professor of sociology at Boston College, and a team of researchers set out to answer with a landmark study in 2022. And in her new book, she lays out what they've learned so far. Read more:

BC Professor Juliet Schor’s latest book challenges the wisdom of the five-day workweek.

10/01/2025

As one of the military's highest ranking medical officers, Air Force Major General Jeanine Ryder '91 has a critical mission: saving lives. Read more:

As one of the military’s highest-ranking medical officers, Air Force Major General Jeannine Ryder ’91 has a critical mission: saving lives. 

09/29/2025

Shelley Stewart III is one of the top executives at McKinsey & Company, one of the largest and arguably the most influential of the "Big Three" management consulting firms. A senior partner, he has three distinct roles at McKinsey, and they overlap at a single point: the idea that corporate profits can be a societal good. Read more:

McKinsey’s Shelley Stewart III ’06 believes strong business and social impact go hand in hand.

09/25/2025

According to an alarming new report led by BC researchers, an act as simple as drinking water could lead to serious health problems for children including birth defects, brain disease, and cancer, thanks to the unchecked production of chemicals that have become ubiquitous in the environment. Read more:

With children’s health in the balance, BC researchers are leading a charge to regulate man-made chemicals.

09/24/2025

There's nothing like a sold-out game at sports-mad BC. Just ask head of ticket sales Jim O'Neill, who has spent nearly four decades overseeing ticket sales for all Eagle teams. Read more:

There’s nothing like a sold-out game at sports-mad BC. Just ask head of ticket sales Jim O’Neill.

08/06/2025

In five short years, Shannon Doherty '06 has turned her social media channels,At Home With Shannon, into an empire, sharing fun and ingeniously simple ideas for decorating, cooking, and entertaining with her 2.2 million followers on TikTok and another 1.5 million across Instagram and Facebook. Read more about her journey to accidental Internet fame here:

Shannon Doherty ’06 is redefining domestic bliss for her millions of social media followers.