September 2007
Boston University News
Class of 2011 Begins the Journey
SLIDE SHOW: At the annual Matriculation Ceremony, President Robert A. Brown urges first-year students toward scholarly research and studies abroad. Read More
Start Me Up
BU’s business incubator brings an entrepreneurial culture to campus. Read More
Ten Days in China
SLIDE SHOW: A summer course led students to discover the culture of five major cities in China. Read More
Speed to Parkinson’s
MED research shows that damage from methamphetamine looks much like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, and that might lead to better treatment for those afflictions. Read More
Study Supports Biosafety Lab
Reviewers say the current site of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories in Boston’s South End tops suburban and rural alternatives. Read More
Alumni News
Red Hot Hockey Goes to New York
Get your tickets now — the BU men’s hockey Terriers head to Madison Square Garden to take on Cornell on Thanksgiving weekend, renewing an old rivalry. Read More
What BU Means to Me
In the second of an occasional series, BU Alumni Council member Heidi Berenson (COM’81) describes how the connections she formed at BU have influenced her career. Read More
Films in a Flash
With only a week to make a film, Hilary Weisman Graham (COM’92) had to act fast in the reality TV show On the Lot. Read More
Survey Says
Alumni stressed their desire for more career networking opportunities and greater communication in response to BU’s spring survey. Read More
Green Acres
Jennifer Cermak (CAS’93, MED’94,’98) is keeping a disappearing way of life alive at Berlin Farms. Read More
Alumni Events
- 09.26New York City Connections Night
- 10.16L.A. Comedy Benefit Event with Jason Alexander (CFA’81) and Bruce Fine (SMG’88)
- 10.24Chicago Alumni College with CAS Dean Virginia Sapiro and COM Dean ad interim Tobe Berkovitz
- 10.25Philadelphia Town Hall Meeting with President Robert A. Brown
- 11.24BU-Cornell Men’s Hockey Game, Alumni Pep Rally
BUniverse
Catch up with the latest videos from campus — ranging from a talk on the art of business by School of Management 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?
BU’s CityLab brings advanced lab science to local high school students, giving them hands-on experience in molecular biology. Read More
Special Offer
U.S. Bank’s Boston University Visa Platinum card is the only card that supports BU and helps to fund important alumni and student programs and activities — and it has a limited-time offer. Read More
