February 2007

Boston University News

Commencement 2006 BU Faculty Get High Marks

A survey by the Chronicle of Higher Education shows BU departments made it to the top of their class.
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Peter Paul (GSM'71) Mission to Burma

SLIDE SHOW: Lotus McDougal (SPH’07) spent six months last year running community health education programs in two refugee camps on the Thailand-Burma border, giving residents health and hope. Read More

CAS Professor Richard Primack studies climate change, funded in part with a Guggenheim grant. A Scholar, with Highest Honor

CAS Professor Allison Blakely, an expert on the African-American experience in Europe, was elected last fall as president of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society. Read More

Creative Writing Professor Ha Jin (GRS'94) Hoarding, Not Collecting

Gail Steketee, an SSW professor and expert on compulsive hoarding, has co-written what is perhaps the first self-help book for compulsive hoarders, providing relief to people living under the weight of too much stuff. Read More

Rhett Honoring a Lost Leader

The Lisa A. Frost Student Lounge was dedicated recently at the new School of Hospitality Administration building, a tribute to Frost (SHA’01, COM’01), who died on 9/11. Read More

 

Rhett Toleration Through Education

Ali Jabareen (SED’07) is a Palestinian Arab doctoral candidate and a former staff member at Al-Qasemi College, the only Islamic institution of higher learning in Israel. Now he’s organizing a conference at SED in April, Taking Faith Seriously in Schools, hoping to promote citizenship and understanding . Read More

 

Alumni News

Reunioners Dear Martin

SLIDE SHOW: February is Black History Month, and a new exhibition of letters to Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) at Mugar Memorial Library shows his profound impact on American life. Read More

Todd Ellison dressed casually before heading off to work as musical director and conductor of Spamalot in New York. Alums Return as Winners

Three Distinguished Alumni Awards and two Young Alumni Awards were presented by the Boston University Alumni Council during the annual Alumni Awards Dinner and Ceremony in January. Recipients included J.Crew CEO Millard Drexler (GSM’68) and opera singer Morris Robinson (CFA’01). Read More

Princeton Club On the Hockey Line

VIDEO: Our intrepid reporters trek through the wilds of Brighton and Allston looking for the line that divides Terrier Nation from BC Eagle Territory. Read More

Future members of the Golden Decade Foundation relaxing at BU in 1974. Alumni Directory Set for 2007

Make sure you send in your update for the Alumni Directory, due out later this year. Read More

Award recipient Learning Hollywood

In semester-long internships, BU students find out what it takes to make it in the world’s most glamorous business.
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Alumni Events

 

BUniverse

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Catch up with the latest videos from campus — ranging from a master class by opera star Denyce Graves to lectures by Howard Zinn and Andrew Young — on BU’s multimedia resource, BUniverse, which offers round-the-clock access to videos of cultural and scholarly events at BU. Read More

 

 

 

 

Did You Know?

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Less than a year after her husband’s assassination, Coretta Scott King was one of the speakers at Boston University’s Founders Day. Read More

 

 

 

 

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