Calendar
Featured Events (February 20 through February 22)
Wednesday, February 20
- 7:00 AM Exhibition: The Space in Between
- 9:00 AM Graduate Student Exhibition: Rob Camacho
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 1:00 PM In the Eye of the Storm: How Iraq Might Affect the Middle East
- 4:30 PM The Crises in Syria: A Discussion
- 5:15 PM Marsh Chapel: Dean's Open Table
- 6:00 PM 1863 - the Rising Tide to Gettysburg
- "America the Beautiful 2" Film Screening
- 7:00 PM Redstone Film Festival
Thursday, February 21
- 7:00 AM Exhibition: The Space in Between
- 9:00 AM Graduate Student Exhibition: Rob Camacho
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 5:30 PM Squeeze Box Stories: A Documentary About Accordions in America
- 6:00 PM Teaching the Body: "Flattening the Body: Art, Anatomy, and Print Culture in the Dutch Golden Age," a lecture by Daniel Margocsy
- 7:30 PM Owen Wingrave
- Robert Lowell Memorial Reading featuring poetTerrance Hayes and Ani Gjika
- Lungs
Friday, February 22
- 7:00 AM Exhibition: The Space in Between
- 9:00 AM Graduate Student Exhibition: Rob Camacho
- 10:00 AM Exhibition: Teaching the Body
- 12:00 PM Dog Therapy
- Public Health in Action: Gun Control
- Study Abroad Spring Expo
- 12:30 PM Innovation and Implementation: Bringing new health technologies to the developing world
- 1:00 PM Innovative Job Search Strategies
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- New International Students on Celebrating Their First Thanksgiving November 20, 2018While many countries have their own version of Thanksgiving, America has turned the fourth Thursday of November into something uniquely its own. The holiday’s origins go back to 1621, when the English settlers known as the Pilgrims celebrated their first successful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., with the Native Americans who helped them survive that first […]
- Tips for Surviving This Week’s Arctic Blast November 19, 2018The calendar may say mid-November, but it will feel a lot more like February on Thanksgiving as an Arctic front descends on the Boston area. Temperatures are expected to dip to 15 degrees Wednesday night. By Thursday morning, with the wind chill, it’s going to feel like five below zero, with temperatures remaining in the […]
