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- Nightlife: Stage American Vaudeville Nightclub March 5, 2015Prepare to be dazzled at Stage American Vaudeville Nightclub, the newest addition to Boston’s late night scene. Visitors to the club, which opened in January, are met with Gatsby-era grandeur (chandeliers, a secret entrance, leather banquettes) and vaudeville-inspired entertainment (knife throwers and illusionists, for example). Intrigued by the promise of a […]
- Badminton, Anyone? March 5, 2015Wielding willowy rackets, T-shirt clad students send shuttlecocks sailing over nets, thwacks and whispered pings making a chorus with mouse squeaks of sneakered feet on hardwood. Polite quiet is the rule at BU Badminton Club matches: no rambunctious cheers, no mocking opponents–and no hairy, half-naked guy bellowing.
- Mitchell Zuckoff Is Inaugural Redstone Professor in Narrative Studies March 5, 2015Best-selling author and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff has made a living writing page-turning books based on real-life events like harrowing plane crashes and a minute-by-minute account of the 2012 Islamic militant attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Critics have pointed to the former Boston Globe writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist’s work a […]
- Charles River Campus Has 21 New Full Professors March 5, 2015Beholding creation, Christopher Schneider longs to understand the forces—evolution, environment, history—that have woven the astounding tapestry of living things. He researches how animal ecology acts with those forces in a given region, especially the tropics, to create new species and maintain biodiversity. His teaching, he says, aims to give students “dir […]
- New Vision of the Final Frontier March 4, 2015Merav Opher isn’t afraid of boundaries. In a field dominated by men years her senior, she has navigated age and gender barriers to become a College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of astronomy, director of the Center for Space Physics, and the only female investigator on NASA’s Voyager spacecraft mission. Now she’s aiming at a […]
