Calendar
All Topics (November 26 through November 26)
Monday, November 26
- All Day Application Deadline: Paytronix
- All Day Classes resume
- All Day Human Resources Open Enrollment 2013
- 9:00 AM Graduate Student Exhibitions: Elizabeth Carter
- 10:00 AM MSE PhD Prospectus Defense of Alket Mertiri
- One Million Bones
- The Space in Between: Daniel Feldman, Stefanie Klavens, and Lynn Saville
- 11:00 AM Stephen A. Frank: Exploring My Kodachrome Dreams-Photographs from the West, Southwest, & Maine 2010-2012
- Hurricane Sandy Relief: Blood Drive
- 12:00 PM Madrid Engineering Program Pre-Departure Meeting
- ASC Walter Rodney Seminar: “After the Liberation: Algeria 1962-2012: reflections on the experience of independence”
- 12:15 PM East Asian Archaeology Forum (EAAF) Lecture
- 12:45 PM A celebration of the publication of Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas, co-authored by Keith Hylton, Professor of Law, with former BU Law Dean Ronald Cass
- 1:00 PM Express Workshop: Preparing for an Interview
- Earth and Environment Dissertation Defense of Zhe Zhu
- 1:30 PM Express Workshop: Inside an Interview
- 3:00 PM South African Muslims and Democracy: Law, Religion and Identity," - Abdolkader Tayob
- 3:30 PM History of Art and Architecture Dissertation Defense of Susanne Moebus-Bergeron
- 4:00 PM Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Christine Thomas, Brandeis University
- Keeping Time with the Cosmos: The Role of Astronomy in 8th Century Maya Society
- 5:00 PM Express Workshop: Resumes
- Gun Hill Road
- Jack Falla Speaker Series: John Buccigross
- 5:30 PM Express Workshop: Cover Letters
- 6:00 PM Marsh Chapel: Community Dinner
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Trading His Cleats for the Pulpit July 30, 2014The Estadio Banorte is sold out. It’s just a preseason game, but you wouldn’t guess it from the more than 20,000 soccer fans cheering, whooping, whistling, and singing. The sound reverberates around the home of the Club Social y Deportivo Sinaloa—the Dorados—in western Mexico. It’s February 27, 2008, and this is Austin Washington’s Major League […]
- Remembering the “Great War” July 30, 2014A stirring new exhibit timed to coincide with the centennial of the start of World War I has just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). Over There: Posters from World War I includes 50 patriotic posters, many on public view for the first time since 1938—gathered from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the […]
- Learning from Boston’s Top Cop July 29, 2014Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of articles about visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU. Should police bust panhandlers for breaking the law? As Boston’s top cop, William Evans can’t answer […]
- Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common July 29, 2014For nearly 20 years, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) has been treating Boston to free, fully staged Shakespeare plays on the Boston Common—part of its overall mission to bring the playwright’s works to all corners of the city’s diverse neighborhoods. It is, in short, Beantown’s equivalent of New York City’s Free Shakespeare in the Park […]
- Free Pilates (and Snacks) Tonight July 28, 2014If you’ve been sitting hunched over at a desk all day, chances are you’re in need of a good stretch. Tonight, join an instructor from the Seaport Hotel’s Wave Health & Fitness for a free pilates class on Atlantic Wharf. Pilates emphasizes a focused awareness of the spine, proper breathing, core strength, and flexibility through […]
