Calendar
Study Abroad (February 2 through March 1)
Tuesday, February 5
Wednesday, February 6
- 4:00 PM Study Abroad: Argentina Cultural Studies Program Information Session
- Study Abroad: Paris Programs Information Session
- 5:00 PM Study Abroad: Venice Studio Arts Program Information Session
Friday, February 8
- 12:00 PM POSTPONED: Study Abroad Spring Expo
Monday, February 11
- 12:00 PM Study Abroad: Washington, DC Programs Information Session
- 3:30 PM Study Abroad: Washington, DC Programs Information Session
Tuesday, February 12
Wednesday, February 13
Friday, February 15
- All Day Application Deadline, Washington, DC Internship Program
- All Day Application Deadline, London Graduate Mass Communication Program
- All Day Application Deadline, London Internship Program (Summer)
- 3:00 PM Study Abroad: Zanzibar & Dakar/Paris Programs Information Session
Friday, February 22
- 12:00 PM Study Abroad Spring Expo
Monday, February 25
Tuesday, February 26
- 4:00 PM Study Abroad: Shanghai Management Program Information Session
- 5:00 PM Study Abroad: Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program Information Session
Wednesday, February 27
- 3:00 PM BU Abroad 101
Thursday, February 28
Friday, March 1
- All Day Application Deadline, Summer Programs
- All Day Application Deadline, Institute d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Exchange
- 1:00 PM Study Abroad: CFA-Acting in Hollywood Information Session
- 2:00 PM Study Abroad: Shanghai Programs Information Session
- 3:00 PM Study Abroad: Dresden Engineering Program Informal Information Session
- 4:15 PM Study Abroad: CFA-Acting in Hollywood Information Session
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- Vinod Sarin Elected to National Academy of Inventors January 16, 2019Q&A Vinod Sarin View Profile When Vinod Sarin isn’t conceiving of a new surface coating, you might find him trying to grow orchids in his apartment. Those two activities aren’t totally disparate from one another in Sarin’s eyes, since plants provide him with endless inspiration for new ideas in his materials science lab. In honor […]
- From Opioids to Airbnb, BU Students Tackle Cities’ Problems January 16, 2019Last year, Carrie Preston and her colleagues teaching the Kilachand Honors College class on Global Health invented fictional crises to test what their students had learned during the semester. Yet with opioid addiction and air pollution afflicting real people throughout the city and in surrounding communities, they figured, why not use a real-life laboratory? So […]
- So Much for the Robocalypse January 16, 2019Innovation expert Iain M. Cockburn has heard all about the robocalypse: how artificially intelligent machines will displace many routine jobs. But he remains a techno-optimist. Cockburn, the Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management, believes that AI has the potential to be an invention that spawns many other inventions and economic growth. His paper on the […]
- Mindful Walking January 15, 2019It’s a bit of a chicken-or-the-egg conundrum. People with knee osteoarthritis don’t walk enough, which can leave them stiff and put them at a higher risk for other health problems. But, when people with knee osteoarthritis do walk, they tend to be a biomechanical mess, overactivating their muscles, walking bowlegged, or putting more pressure—called joint […]
- A Fictional Superhero Inspired by a Real-Life Four-Year-Old January 15, 2019When Raakhee Mirchandani is having a bad day, she admits, she’ll pick up her well-worn copy of Harriet the Spy for comfort. But Mirchandani (CGS’01, COM’03), a content development editor at Dow Jones and a former managing editor of the New York Daily News, thought that if she ever wrote her own book, it would […]
