Calendar
Examinations (February 20 through March 28)
Friday, February 22
Thursday, February 28
Monday, March 4
Wednesday, March 13
Friday, March 15
Monday, March 18
Tuesday, March 19
- 8:30 AM History of Art & Architecture Dissertation Defense of Austin Porter
- 1:00 PM Biostatistics Disseration Defense of Chen Lu
- 3:00 PM Political Science Dissertation Defense of Robert Alexander Whalen
Wednesday, March 20
Thursday, March 21
Friday, March 22
Monday, March 25
- 10:00 AM Sociology Dissertation Defense of Amy Moff Hudec
- 11:00 AM Psychology Dissertation Defense of Robert J. Orazem
- 1:00 PM PhD Dissertation Seminar, Department of Biochemistry
- 3:00 PM PhD Dissertation Seminar, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Computer Science Dissertation Defense of Gonca Gursun
Tuesday, March 26
- 11:30 AM Biostatistics Dissertation Defense of Carlee Brooks Moser
- 4:00 PM American & New England Studies Dissertation Defense of Jessica L. Roscio
Wednesday, March 27
- 10:00 AM Economics Dissertation Defense of Laura Salisbury
- 11:00 AM Bioinformatics Dissertation Defense of Jasmin Coulombe-Huntington
- 12:00 PM PhD Dissertation Seminar, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Thursday, March 28
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Are Computer-Aided Decisions Actually Fair? December 14, 2018Algorithmic fairness is increasingly important, because as more decisions of greater importance are made by computer programs, the potential for harm grows. Today, algorithms are already widely used to determine credit scores, which can mean the difference between owning a home and renting one. And they are used in predictive policing, which suggests a likelihood […]
- Eat and Run December 14, 2018ack when he was an undergraduate at Johnson & Wales University, Adam Korzun worked in Boston’s elegant Four Seasons Hotel, preparing meals in the kitchen of its five-star restaurant. These days, as a sports dietitian, Korzun (Sargent’05) creates menus aimed at providing food that’s more high-test than haute cuisine. Korzun is director of performance nutrition […]
- A First Grader’s Murder Spurs a Mother’s Crusade to Teach Love December 14, 2018The last photo taken of Jesse Lewis shows the six-year-old squinting into the mid-December sun as he’s dropped off at school. On the nearby family car, he had finger-scrawled “I LOVE YOU” in the frosty coating. Less than an hour later, the first grader was dead. Jesse, along with 19 other children and 6 adults […]
- BU Hult Prize Winners Aim to Bring Learning to Refugee Camps December 13, 2018It’s a long way from Comm Ave to Bekaa Valley, but an idea pitched by three BU students to a select audience at the BUildLab Monday night could have a profound impact in refugee camps in Lebanon and beyond. The start-up created by Jessica Thai (CAS’20), Sheila Phillips (CAS’20), and Misty Ouyang (Sargent’20), which could […]
- Winter People Shines a Light on a Different Side of the Hamptons December 13, 2018Laura Neill grew up in Southampton, on eastern Long Island, but no, she doesn’t know the Kardashians or any of the other fabulously rich and famous people who descend on the Hamptons each summer. Neill’s family—her father is a Stony Brook University psychology professor, her mother a fiction writer—lives in the Southampton hamlet of North […]
