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- Tracing America’s Earliest Photography July 23, 2014History, technology, sociology, and art converge in a picture-perfect exhibit currently on view at the MIT Museum’s Kurtz Gallery for Photography. Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840–1900) from the Wm. B. Becker Collection features more than 100 photos taken between 1840 and 1900, a period during which photography transitioned from an ob […]
- Spotlight on Sons of Serendip July 23, 2014Among the dozens of artists who auditioned during the June 10 episode of America’s Got Talent were a stand-up comedian, a teen dance troupe, a performing pig, and a professional archer. But one of the most impressive acts during the two-hour broadcast was a musical quartet featuring BU alums called Sons of Serendip. Comprising lead […]
- Computer Scientist Is BU’s Innovator of the Year July 22, 2014Mark Crovella’s work centers on networks, mostly computer networks, and they have been improved by his research. He studies their properties by using data mining and statistics (though Crovella also has studied social and biological networks). Crovella, a professor and chairman of computer science at the College of Arts & Sciences, has just been named [… […]
- Football (Soccer) Comes to Fenway Park July 22, 2014There’s good news for the legions of Boston-area soccer fans who have been missing the game ever since the World Cup ended: the Liverpool Football Club will face off against AS Roma tomorrow night in a preseason game at Fenway Park. Tickets are still available but are expected to sell out quickly, so it’s best […]
- Why Bank Holding Companies Need to Be Broken Up July 21, 2014Many contributors helped bring about the most recent financial crisis, bank holding companies among them. The problems with bank holding companies stem less from lax rules or weak enforcement than from the way they are structured. Bank holding companies are currently structured as financial malls of “shops” offering financial intermediations: brokerage, unde […]
