2024 Last Lecture: Unity in University? Boston College and Beyond
by Professor Emeritus Patrick H. Byrne
Professor Patrick Byrne joined the Philosophy Department in 1975, served as chair from 2003-2010, and as director of BC’s Lonergan Institute from 2011 to 2022. The associate director of the Jesuit Institute from 1997-2001, Prof. Byrne also was a member of the University Core Development and Core Renewal committees from 1991-2019, and a 10-year committee member for the Lilly Endowment Planning Grant on Undergraduate Student Vocations, which led to formation of BC’s Intersections program.
Among many other campus roles, he served as co-chair of the Task Force on Undergraduate Student Formation (part of the University Academic Planning Council) from 1996-97, and since 1991 has served as the University’s representative to Lilly Fellows Program in Faith, Humanities and the Arts. Prof. Byrne was also the guiding force behind the PULSE service learning program, which educates students for social justice. He served as inaugural director from 1969 to 1972 (and as interim director in 2013-14), and has taught in PULSE for more than four decades.
In 1999 Prof. Byrne received from Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society, its Notable Book Award for his “Analysis and Science in Aristotle.”
In 2017, the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, New England Region, presented him with the Madonna Della Strada Award in recognition of his founding of PULSE. The group’s highest honor, it is presented to those who embody the Jesuit tradition of direct service to the poor, and of working and educating for a more just society.
And in 2019, during The University Commencement ceremony he received the Saint Robert Bellarmine, S.J., Award. In recognition of his exemplary, long-term dedication to the mission of the University.
22 апр 2024
