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 "America the Beautiful 2" Film Screening
- 1863 - the Rising Tide to Gettysburg
- 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 Lungs
- Robert Lowell Memorial Reading featuring poetTerrance Hayes and Ani Gjika
- Owen Wingrave
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 Study Abroad Spring Expo
- Dog Therapy
- Public Health in Action: Gun Control
- 12:30 PM Innovation and Implementation: Bringing new health technologies to the developing world
- 1:00 PM Innovative Job Search Strategies
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- BU, City of Boston Hold First Joint Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Monday January 18, 2019Newly elected Bay State Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one of the country’s rising political stars, will keynote a joint University–City of Boston celebration of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) holiday on Monday, January 21. The 90-minute ceremony, which will begin at 1 pm at the George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom, is the first […]
- Have You Seen the World’s Most Famous Egg? January 18, 2019View this post on Instagram A post shared by EGG GANG 🌍 (@world_record_egg) on Jan 4, 2019 at 9:05am PST It’s the egg that refuses to be eggnored. And it’s one of those cheesy stories that somebody randomly hatched and might leave your brain, well, scrambled. Bad puns aside, surely you have seen this […]
- Crafting a Covetable Career January 17, 2019Kevin O’Connor, host of the venerable PBS television series This Old House, stands on a roof in Newton, Mass., helping fireplace installer Jonathan Hawkins attach the final sections of a new chimney pipe. “So, how far above the roofline are you shooting for here?” asks O’Connor (Questrom’99), prompting Hawkins to explain how he calculated the […]
- Crossing the Scientific Aisle to Advance Tissue Engineering January 17, 2019TAKEAWAYS: • Albro and his lab are bringing together two sides of the scientific debate—engineers and developmental scientists • Growing cartilage tissue is not as simple as people once thought, but scientists are making important progress When imagining a patient suffering from osteoarthritis you might picture a grandmother struggling with hip pain or a grandfather […]
- Vaping Slows Wound Healing Just as Much as Smoking January 17, 2019“If you’re using electronic cigarettes, or ‘vaping,’ instead of smoking cigarettes, you’re fooling yourself if you think it’s a healthier option,” with regard to wound healing, says Jeffrey Spiegel, a Boston University School of Medicine professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery, and chief of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Boston Medical Center. Spiegel […]
