Calendar
Recitals (February 20 through April 30)
Friday, February 22
- 8:30 PM Student Recital-Greta Asgeirsson
Wednesday, April 10
- 8:00 PM Faculty Recital, Lynn Eustis
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- The Weekender: December 13 to 16 December 12, 2018Final exams begin Monday and everyone’s facing last-minute deadlines. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take some time to relax and a break from studying. Check out “The Weekender,” our weekly guide to ideas about where to eat, shop, and go, for some fun, inexpensive things to do. From theater to holiday shopping and a […]
- New Book by Pete Souza (COM’76) Throws Some Shade on Trump December 12, 2018From 2008 to 2016, Pete Souza worked at the job of a lifetime: he was the White House photographer, chronicling the first US African American president. Last year Souza (COM’76) spoke with BU Today about his book Obama: An Intimate Portrait a collection of pictures from his eight years on the job that made some readers tearfully nostalgic for […]
- Gun-Related Deaths Have Decreased Overall American Life Expectancy December 12, 2018“Mortality rates don’t show you how much of your life is lost,” Bindu Kalesan says of gun deaths. “Who is dying young, and who is dying old?” the School of Public Health assistant professor of community health sciences asks. In 2016, the last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides numbers for, 35,353 […]
- POV: Proposed Title IX Rules Will Discourage Victims from Coming Forward December 12, 2018One in 5 women, and one in 16 men, experience sexual assault in college. For victims, reporting an assault comes with fear of retaliation, not being believed, and a taxing encounter with campus justice systems. Unfortunately, the new Title IX rules issued on November 16 by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will serve to only further discourage […]
- COM Students Learn How to Report the Most Difficult Stories December 11, 2018Sarah Kess was a student at an all-girls high school in Ohio when the two planes flew into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. “Most of the girls were crying and trying to call home, and I just instinctively took a notebook out and was going up to people asking them where […]
