Calendar
All Topics (April 28 through April 29)
Monday, April 28
- All Day Leonard Nimoy: Secret Selves
- 9:00 AM Dunk Tank Trivia
- 10:00 AM Economics Dissertation Defense of Richard B. Baker
- Yom Hashoah
- Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Reading of the Names
- 10:30 AM Just-in-Time Career Fair
- 11:30 AM Get Your Bod on the Quad
- 1:00 PM Sustainability Help Desk
- 3:00 PM Pre-Departure Meeting: Padua Programs
- 4:00 PM Tansaekhwa and the Case for Abstraction in Postwar Korea
- BU Asian Studies Spring Reception
- IAA Pub Trivia Night
- 5:15 PM Sex. God.
- 5:30 PM Analytical Challenges in Clinical Cancer Diagnostics by NGS
- 6:00 PM Ask a Linguistics Professor
- Howard Thurman Discussion Group
- Award-Winning Actor, Director, Producer Alan Cumming
- 6:30 PM Student Recital: Fanghan Liu, piano
- Holocaust Remembrance Day: Candlelighting Ceremony
- 7:00 PM Creation and Complexity
- "The Banality of Love."
- The Last Lecture
- 8:30 PM Student Recital: Meixu Lu, cello
Tuesday, April 29
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Alum Lauren Morton Named New Women’s Lacrosse Coach June 20, 2018During Lauren Morton’s undergraduate days on the women’s lacrosse team, BU athletics director Drew Marrochello pointed her out on Nickerson Field and told a bystander, “That’s the toughest athlete we have.” Toughest on the field? the bystander asked, or toughest women’s lacrosse player? “That’s not what I said,” Marrochello answered. “What I mean is she’s the […]
- MFA’s Juneteenth Community Day Commemorates End of Slavery June 20, 2018Many may not realize it, but this week marks an important moment in US history: the official end of slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, a Union Army general landed in Galveston, Tex., and announced that “all persons held as slaves are, and […]
- A Steep Learning Curve for BU’s Baby Falcons June 19, 2018If birds of prey fear for their young, this is an anxious time for Mick and Latitia, a pair of peregrine falcons that have nested high atop 26-floor StuVi II for the past five years. Their three remaining chicks, nearly six weeks old, want to fly, a risky proposition for inexperienced birds high above the […]
- Destination Dino at Franklin Park June 19, 2018This summer Franklin Park Zoo has been overtaken by a prehistoric species: dinosaurs. The 72-acre zoo, considered the crown jewel of Boston’s Emerald Necklace Park system, is famous for its zebras, gorillas, and tigers, but over the coming weeks, visitors can thrill to something special: a chance to come face-to-face with more than a dozen […]
- A Different Kind of Texas Candidate June 18, 2018If Gina Ortiz Jones beats the Republican incumbent to win the US House of Representative seat in the Texas 23rd district this November, she will be the first woman to represent her district. She will also be the first Filipina American and the first lesbian to hold a US House seat from Texas. The Democrat and […]
