August 2006

Boston University News

Kenneth Lutchen, new dean of the College of EngineeringNew ENG Dean Chosen

The chair of the biomedical engineering department, Kenneth Lutchen has been named as the new dean of the College of Engineering. Read More

Lauren Ambrose, Phyllis Hoffman, Brenda Patterson, and Georgia Jarman at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute's 40th Anniversary Gala Concert on July 29 in Lenox, MassachusettsMusical Anniversary in the Berkshires

The Boston University Tanglewood Institute celebrates forty years training the nation's best high school musicians. Read More

Charles GlennGlenn Named SED Dean ad Interim

Charles Glenn (GRS'87), a School of Education professor and chair of the department of administration, training, and policy, is SED dean ad interim. Read More

Patrick McNamara, assistant professor of neurology and psychology at the BU School of Medicine and the Boston VA Medical CenterSleep On It

MED Assistant Professor Patrick McNamara is studying the evolutionary development of sleep to help answer the question, why do we spend a third of our lives unconscious? Read More

Alumni News

A Forensic Portrait of George Washington will consist of three life-sized wax figures: the nineteen-year-old wilderness surveyor, the forty-five-year-old Continental Army leader at Valley Forge, and the fifty-seven-year-old president on his inauguration day

By George!

Brooklyn studio director Ivan Schwartz (CFA'73) waxes nostalgic over America's first president. Read More

Jacqui Patterson in Zimbabwe, accompanying a local volunteer on a home visit with an HIV/AIDS victimServing Those Least Served

Jacqui Patterson (SED'90) fights AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
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In 1998, a boat was named for Jim Nesworthy, center, in honor of his eightieth birthday. At the dedication are former men's crew captain Phil Twombly (SMG'47), left, and current head coach Rodney PrattMen's Crew Challenge Grant

Gift from foundation urges team to raise additional funds.
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Alumni Events

Did You Know?

Marsh PlazaDid You Know?

Remember Marsh Plaza before the Free at Last sculpture? This April 1975 photo records Chilean sculptor Sergio Castillo welding some of the final pieces of his memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS'55, Hon.'59). Read More