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- 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 […]
- Using Light to Diagnose Parkinson’s July 28, 2014Xue Han investigates Parkinson’s disease with an unusual tool: light. Han is a pioneer in the young field of optogenetics, in which scientists reengineer nerve cells, or neurons, to respond to light, using molecules called opsins. Like ice cream, opsins come in many flavors—there’s rhodopsin in the human eye and halorhodopsin in bacteria, for instance—but [ […]
- Saying Goodbye to BU’s Former “First Lady” July 28, 2014Jasmine Chobanian, who was regarded as the “First Lady” of Boston University during the many years that her husband Aram V. Chobanian, MD, served in University leadership, both as dean of the School of Medicine and the ninth president of Boston University (2003–2005), died last Friday after a brief illness. “Jasmine was our beloved first […]
