Calendar
All Topics (July 31 through August 7)
Thursday, July 31
- 11:30 AM Ward's Berry Farm CSA Pickup and Farmstand
- 5:00 PM BUMC Toastmasters Open House
- 6:00 PM ICA Thursday Concerts
Friday, August 1
- All Day Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program Ends
- 11:00 AM Scleroderma Center of Research Translation Enrichment Speaker
- 3:00 PM Parents Program Radio Show
- 6:00 PM National Poster Retrospecticus
Sunday, August 3
Monday, August 4
- All Day Class of 2015 Scarlet Key Nomination Deadline
- All Day Last Day to hold Final Oral Exam for Sept 2014 Ph.D. Grads
- 9:00 AM Last Day for Sept 2014 Grads (MA or MS) Final Approved Thesis Submission
- Last Day for Sept 2014 Ph.D. Grads to submit Final Approved Dissertation
- 10:00 AM Biology Dissertation Defense of Lauren Emily Friedman
Tuesday, August 5
- 2:00 PM Religious Studies Dissertation Defense of Margaret Arnold
- Part-Time MS in Advertising Webinar
- Political Science Dissertation Defense of Abram Trosky
- PhD Final Dissertation Defense: Haiding Sun
- 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Samuel Qing-Shan Jia, Tsinghua University
Wednesday, August 6
- 2:00 PM Earth & Environment Dissertation Defense of Qingsong Sun
- 2:30 PM University Professors Program Dissertation Defense of Melinda M. Krokus
- 5:30 PM FREE Fitness Classes at FitRec
Thursday, August 7
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Men’s Soccer Looks to Turn Season Around September 21, 2018Last season, the BU men’s soccer team didn’t see a win come its way until a mid-September game against Harvard, its seventh of the season. But after a strong showing in conference play (6-2-1), the Terriers finished second in the Patriot League and reached the semifinal round of the conference tournament. The Terriers—second in this […]
- Alumni Weekend 2018: 10 Can’t-Miss Events September 21, 2018More than 3,000 guests are expected on campus this weekend for Alumni Weekend 2018, with 150 events scheduled in alums’ honor. But many are open to students, faculty, and staff as well. From marking old traditions to celebrating new creative talents, the schedule has something for everyone. Here are 10 (mostly free) events to check […]
- The Dahod Family Alumni Center Opens for Business September 20, 2018Arguably BU’s grandest and most stately building, the new Dahod Family Alumni Center—housed in the 103-year-old mansion known for decades as the Castle—looms over Bay State Road and Storrow Drive, with its stone gargoyles, peaked roof, and leaded Gothic windows. But age had taken a toll on the century-old Tudor Revival building. The exterior was […]
- Window Woman of New England: Restoring 103-Year-Old Windows, Pane by Pane September 20, 2018Alison Hardy learned to restore windows the hard way: by reading books, watching videos, and calling up tradesmen out of the blue for advice. For the biggest job of her career, the Questrom alum and her team of craftsmen have restored, pane by pane, the windows of BU’s new Dahod Family Alumni Center.
- Defending Patriot League Field Hockey Champs Out for a Repeat September 20, 2018When Kiley Gallagher (CAS’20, Questrom’20) scored the game-winning overtime goal against number 9 Northwestern on September 9, it marked an important moment for the BU field hockey team. The players had long demonstrated they could hold their own against a top-10 competitor, but for the first time since BU posted a win over Virginia in […]
