July 2007
Boston University News
Keeping Boston’s Brightest Close to Home
Boston University’s high school scholarship program, the country’s largest and longest-running program for urban public high school graduates, has awarded nearly $120 million to more than 1,600 students from Boston high schools since 1973. Read More
A Healthy Stretch for Body and Mind
A new School of Medicine study shows that yoga may elevate an important brain chemical and thus may help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Read More
Brave New Babies
With designer babies on the horizon, will doctors take a strong ethical stand, or will it be a market-driven brave new world? Ethicist George Annas, a School of Public Health professor, talks about the responsibilities that come with knowledge. Read More
Animal, Vegetable, Collectible
SLIDE SHOW: BU’s biology archive shows a century of biodiversity. Read More
Family Folklore
Who says games have no place in the classroom? Students in UNI Professor Tony Barrand’s folklore course imagine fifteenth-century European love ballads, fairy tales, and Maypole dances when they think of folk lore. What they don’t realize, he says, is that it exists in present-day America as well. Read More
The Misses Congeniality
Co-op living amid frescoed walls at the Harriet E. Richards House, believed to be the oldest all-female collegiate cooperative house in the country, founded in 1928. Read More
Alumni News
Red Hot Hockey Goes to New York
The Terriers head to Madison Square Garden to take on Cornell on Thanksgiving weekend, renewing an old rivalry. Read More
The Secret Life of Old Photographs
SLIDE SHOW: Tim Orwig (GRS’01,’08) finds the familiar in century-old pictures. He narrates a selection of photos from his new book, Historic Photos of Boston. Read More
A Capital Club
The Alumni Club of Washington, D.C., welcomes all as it builds a strong following with diverse programming. Read More
Alumni Awards Nomination
The Office of University Development and Alumni Relations and the Boston University Alumni Council announce the call for nominations for the 2007 Boston University Alumni Awards, due July 20. Read More
Hard-Driving News
General manager Paul La Camera (COM’66) pushes WBUR, Boston University’s award-winning NPR station, to national prominence. Read More
BUniverse
Catch up with the latest videos from campus — ranging from a talk on the art of business by SMG Dean Louis E. Lataif (SMG’61, HON.’90) 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?
The founder of Goodwill Industries was Reverend Edgar J. Helms (STH 1895, Hon.’40). Read More
Alumni Insurance Program
The Boston University Alumni Relations Office sponsors the Alumni Insurance Program as a service to new graduates, alumni, and their family members.