Photo Blog

Faculty, administrators and alumni welcomed participants of Odyssey 2015 and their families at the opening dinner in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the program. Odyssey is a one-week program open on a voluntary basis to all first-year ALANA (African-American, Latin American, Asian-American, and Native American) and international students. During the week, the 61 participants took part in workshops, field trips, discussions, and volunteer and social programs. Since the program’s inception, 776 first-year students have participated in Odyssey.

Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president, welcomes Odyssey participants.

From left, Amadeus Javier ’11, Anthony Zelayandia ’11 and Gabriel Fernandez ’12.

Stephanie Montilla ’13 and Samantha Oliveira ’12 embrace.

Odyssey “grads” who attended the event pose for the camera. At far left is Esther Levine, director of the Odyssey Program.

Photography by Patrick O’Connor

Despite heavy rain, crews continue working on the landscaping renovation project behind the Hogan Campus Center. Read more about the project, view the artist’s rendering, and watch construction of the landscaping renovation in real time via a webcam. This is one of numerous construction projects underway this summer.

Photography by Christian Santillo

The major landscaping renovation project behind the Hogan Campus Center is starting to come together. The project is scheduled to be completed by the time students return to campus at the end of August. Read more about the project, view the artist’s rendering, and watch construction of the landscaping renovation in real time via a webcam.

Photograph by Christian Santillo

Construction vehicles remove the walkway behind the Hogan Campus Center as the area undergoes extensive landscaping renovation. Read more about the project, view the artist’s rendering, and watch construction of the landscaping renovation in real time via a webcam.

Photograph by John Buckingham

Elizabeth Morse, valedictorian of the Class of 2009, talks with Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., president, during “Hogwarts at Holy Cross: Snape’s Dungeon.” The event is sponsored by the Science Ambassadors, a group of more than 60 Holy Cross students who work with local children to develop an interest in the sciences. Morse, who is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biology at Yale University, was a co-chair of the Science Ambassadors during her junior and senior years at Holy Cross.

Photograph by Dan Vaillancourt

Emily Liguori ’14 takes part in Chalk the Walk on the sidewalk outside of the lower Hogan Campus Center. The annual event, sponsored by the Student Art Society, encourages students to express their inner artist.

Photograph by Tim Paquette ’11

As part of the Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Maria Cavicchi ’11, a mathematics major in the health professions advisory program, gives a talk titled “An Alternative Perspective for Modeling HIV” during an undergraduate research session. Hundreds of mathematicians from higher education institutions across the globe attended the conference which was held on the Holy Cross campus on the weekend of April 9 to 10.

Ryan Elizabeth Prendergast ’11, a mathematics major with a concentration in biological psychology in the health professions advisory program, gives a talk titled “Determining the Rate Constant Matrix for a Two Compartment Pharmacokinetic Model.”

Kenneth Golden, a professor of mathematics at the University of Utah, delivers the plenary address titled “Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps” in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom.

Photography by Cristina Sato ’11

Teams comprised of one faculty member and one student face off in a trivia-style contest competition for prizes and pride during Battle of the Departments, an annual trivia competition, in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom. Timothy Austin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College, and Michael Barone ’11, director of academic concerns for the Student Government Association, hosted the event.

Photograph by Tina Sato ’11

The Holy Cross Ballroom Dance team held its 12th annual Ballroom Dance Competition on Feb. 27. Each year Holy Cross hosts the competition, inviting dozens of school teams across the Northeast. Be sure to see all the glitter, glamour and glide of Holy Cross’ Ballroom Dance Club in the spring issue of Holy Cross Magazine. In the special dance cover feature, you’ll also meet two club alumni who have just turned their co-curricular passion into a professional pursuit.

Photography by Pat O’Connor

A front-end loader removes large mounds of snow in the parking lot behind the Hogan Campus Center following a nearly two-foot snowfall last week.  The excess snow is deposited behind Freshman Field.

Photography by Nick Markantonatos