Calendar
All Topics (May 17 through May 21)
Saturday, May 17
- All Day Hillel Open 9am - 9pm
- 8:00 AM SCOPE of Pain: Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education
- 9:00 AM Philosophy Commencement Ceremony 2014
- 10:00 AM Shabbat Services
- ENG Undergraduate Convocation
- 4:00 PM ENG Graduate Convocation
- 6:30 PM BU at the Ballpark: Rangers vs. Blue Jays!
- 7:00 PM MFA Thesis Film Screening
Sunday, May 18
- All Day Hillel CLOSED
- 1:00 PM All-University Commencement Ceremony
- BYSO Young People's String Orchestra (YPSO) and Junior Repertory Orchestra (JRO) Spring Concert
- 6:00 PM BYSO Boston Youth Symphony (BYS) Spring Concert
Monday, May 19
- 8:00 AM ASM Materials Experience for High School Sophomores and Juniors
- 1:00 PM SE PhD Prospectus Defense of Austin Jones
- Physics Dissertation Defense of Bo Chen
- Philosophy Dissertation Defense of Benjamin M. Roth
Tuesday, May 20
- 8:30 AM CFTCC Annual Symposium
- CFTCC Annual Symposium
- 10:00 AM Adipose Seminar: Liver, Lipid droplets and Lipolysis; linking liver metabolism to metabolic diseases etiology"
- 12:00 PM BU Women's Guild Annual Lunch and Scholarship Awards
- BU Women's Guild Luncheon
- 3:00 PM Martha L. Bulyk, Ph.D Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Associate Member, Broad Institute
- 7:00 PM Writers at the Black Box
Wednesday, May 21
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- BU, City of Boston Hold First Joint Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Monday January 18, 2019Newly elected Bay State Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one of the country’s rising political stars, will keynote a joint University–City of Boston celebration of the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) holiday on Monday, January 21. The 90-minute ceremony, which will begin at 1 pm at the George Sherman Union Metcalf Ballroom, is the first […]
- With Flu Widespread around the State, BU Holds Student Vaccination Clinic Friday January 18, 2019With Massachusetts and much of the country reporting widespread influenza cases, BU has scheduled an additional campus vaccination clinic for students on Friday, January 25. The clinic will run from 9 am until 3 pm on the FitRec lower-level basketball courts, accessible across the street from 25 Buick Street (signs on Buick will direct students […]
- Have You Seen the World’s Most Famous Egg? January 18, 2019View this post on Instagram A post shared by EGG GANG 🌍 (@world_record_egg) on Jan 4, 2019 at 9:05am PST It’s the egg that refuses to be eggnored. And it’s one of those cheesy stories that somebody randomly hatched and might leave your brain, well, scrambled. Bad puns aside, surely you have seen this […]
- Crafting a Covetable Career January 17, 2019Kevin O’Connor, host of the venerable PBS television series This Old House, stands on a roof in Newton, Mass., helping fireplace installer Jonathan Hawkins attach the final sections of a new chimney pipe. “So, how far above the roofline are you shooting for here?” asks O’Connor (Questrom’99), prompting Hawkins to explain how he calculated the […]
- Crossing the Scientific Aisle to Advance Tissue Engineering January 17, 2019TAKEAWAYS: • Albro and his lab are bringing together two sides of the scientific debate—engineers and developmental scientists • Growing cartilage tissue is not as simple as people once thought, but scientists are making important progress When imagining a patient suffering from osteoarthritis you might picture a grandmother struggling with hip pain or a grandfather […]
