Honoring Distinguished Graduate - Prince Charles Alexander ’75 and Celebrating Paul J. Pitts ’73, P’05, ’12 Retired, Award-Winning Program Director for Visual & Performing Arts
In the broader context of the 1970s, the Boston Latin School community reflects on the journey of the first classes of girls admitted to America's first public school in 1972.
This final installment of the BLS student vlog (video blog) series features two members of Class I, Ruth and Xiangan, as they reflect on this extraordinary year at Latin School. Their excitement is contagious, their gratitude is sincere, and their futures are bright! We wish them the very best on their next journey.
Inquiry & Insights: Join the BLS community for a new online series of presentations that delivers insights, sparks thoughtful discussion, and answers your questions on an array of timely topics.
"Boston: The Complicated City on a Hill"
While Boston's history is well-known, there are significant, yet lesser-known anecdotes that construct the complicated fabric of our historic city on a hill. Through his book "A People's Guide to Greater Boston," Joseph Nevins, Ph.D., professor of geography at Vassar College, weaves us through the historic core of Downtown Boston with stories of the United Fruit Company, the Boston Bellamy Club, and the controversial contributions of the famed Perkins Family.
Inquiry & Insights: Join the BLS community for a new online series of presentations that will deliver insights, spark thoughtful discussion, and answer your questions on an array of timely topics. "Silent War in Cyber Space" Richard Clarke, former national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection, and counterterrorism, and the nation’s first “Cyber Czar” in the White House, makes a clarion call for the public and private sectors to reframe organizational cyber risk as a critical national security concern.
Inquiry & Insights: Join the BLS community for a new online series of presentations that will deliver insights, spark thoughtful discussion, and answer your questions on an array of timely topics.
"Ocean Pollution and Human Health"
Dr. Philip Landrigan is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. He directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. His research examines the health impacts of toxic environmental hazards.
Ocean pollution is an important, but insufficiently recognized and inadequately controlled component of global pollution.