Our Radical Year
President Robert A. Brown
Joining the AAU
What Price, Innovation?
Ruha Benjamin
Discovery Junkies
William Saturno
Dark End of the Spectrum
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Human Engineers
Dean Kenneth Lutchen
Unlocking Words
Abriella Stone
Cavewoman Walking
Jeremy DeSilva
The Politics of Listening
Ashish Premkumar
$1B Campaign
Stepping Up
Dean Maureen O’Rourke
Professor in the Coal Mine
Lucy Hutyra
Teaming up with edX
Clapping, Stomping, Twirling
Sajan Patel
Force Field
Sally Starr
The Computer Will See You Now
Dr. Brian Jack
Birth of an Artist
Jim Petosa
Elizabethan Time Machine
Diana Griffin
Joining the Patriot League
Healing Zambia
Donald Thea
Spring Break, Not
Jenne Bougouneau
Our Smartest Class
Creaky Nation
Julie Keysor
Melting Prison Bars
André de Quadros
Best of Both Worlds
Katie Matthews
Faculty Accolades
Film Frisson
Mary Jane Doherty
Financials
Saliva Solution
Eva Helmerhorst
Testing Fate
Catharine Wang
Our Radical Year
President Robert A. Brown
Joining the AAU
What Price, Innovation?
Ruha Benjamin
Discovery Junkies
William Saturno
Dark End of the Spectrum
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Human Engineers
Dean Kenneth Lutchen
Unlocking Words
Abriella Stone
Cavewoman Walking
Jeremy DeSilva
The Politics of Listening
Ashish Premkumar
$1B Campaign
Stepping Up
Dean Maureen O’Rourke
Professor in the Coal Mine
Lucy Hutyra
Teaming up with edX
Clapping, Stomping, Twirling
Sajan Patel
Force Field
Sally Starr
The Computer Will See You Now
Dr. Brian Jack
Birth of an Artist
Jim Petosa
Elizabethan Time Machine
Diana Griffin
Joining the Patriot League
Healing Zambia
Donald Thea
Spring Break, Not
Jenne Bougouneau
Our Smartest Class
Creaky Nation
Julie Keysor
Melting Prison Bars
André de Quadros
Best of Both Worlds
Katie Matthews
Faculty Accolades
Film Frisson
Mary Jane Doherty
Financials
Saliva Solution
Eva Helmerhorst
Testing Fate
Catharine Wang
Buff Brains
Our student-athletes hit the books as hard as the boards. Just ask the NCAA. In its latest multiyear data on Division I Academic Progress Rate, 21 BU teams exceeded their sport’s national average—and 7 of them posted perfect scores.
But this year, we took things up a notch. After decades with the America East Conference, which BU helped found in 1979, we threw in with the Patriot League. It’s all part of President Brown’s drive to enroll ever-smarter students. Since 1998, the Patriot League has boasted the highest graduation rates for student-athletes among Division I conferences.
“We are very impressed by the academic quality of the institutions in the Patriot League and by the league’s commitment to student athletics while effectively competing at the NCAA Division I level,” he says.
“BU has a strong tradition of excellence in academics and Division I athletics, both of which reflect the core values of the Patriot League,” says Carolyn Schlie Femovich, the league’s executive director. “They will strengthen the league both in the classroom and on the field of play.”
2013 Was a Year of Firsts for BU Athletics
MEN’S VARSITY LACROSSE ARRIVES
Lacrosse was officially designated as a club sport in 1972, but has been played at the club level on campus since the 1920s. The University recently recruited Yale assistant lacrosse coach Ryan Polley to lead its new men’s varsity lacrosse team.
NEW SPORTS LEAGUE FOR TERRIERS
The University becomes the tenth full member of the Patriot League. Since 1998, the league has posted the highest graduation rates for student-athletes among Division I conferences.
FIRST FIELD HOCKEY HOME GAME IN 11 YEARS
Even while practicing and playing off-site, BU’s field hockey team remained nationally ranked. Thanks to a new field, they will play their first home game on campus in 11 years.
FIRST NEW HOCKEY COACH IN 40 SEASONS
Alum David Quinn replaced legendary men’s ice hockey coach Jack Parker (SMG’68, Hon.’97), who retires after 40 years at the helm and 894 regular season victories. Quinn (CAS’89) was most recently assistant coach of the Colorado Avalanche, and formerly associate head coach at BU.
ELEVATED PLAYING FIELD UNVEILED
New Balance Field, the $24 million, 110,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art practice and playing field, offers stadium seating for 500.