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- The History of Shopping April 16, 2014Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU. They paved childhood and put up a Toys “R” Us. With apologies to Joni Mitchell, that pretty much […]
- Specialty Residence for Women in Science and Engineering April 16, 2014With hours to go before a big organic chem test, several female students are holding a powwow in their Bay State brownstone, trying to understand how carbon-containing compounds react. It’s just another night at WISE-UP House, the specialty community residence for female STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) sophomores, juniors, and seniors that […]
- Elizabeth Warren Calls for More Federal Research Money April 16, 2014Elizabeth Warren pulled up to campus Monday with a sputtering vehicle—the federal government, for which she works—and got under the hood to check two key problems: its leaky research support and its broken student loan system. On the research front, the senior senator from Massachusetts got an earful from some elite technicians: 15 medical executives, […]
- Trauma April 15, 2014Peter Burke had just finished the morning session of a medical conference at the Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas when the news flashed on a lobby TV: two bombs had exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line, turning an annual celebration into a war zone. Minutes later he received an emergency text message from Boston […]
- BU Volunteers at 2013 Marathon Vow to Return April 15, 2014BU students, faculty, and staff involved in athletic training, sports medicine, and emergency medicine have long volunteered at the Boston Marathon. So it was no surprise that dozens of volunteers from the BU community were at the finish line on a cloudless Patriot’s Day a year ago today to lend their support. For some, it […]
