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 Ph.D. Grads to submit Final Approved Dissertation
- Last Day for Sept 2014 Grads (MA or MS) Final Approved Thesis Submission
- 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
- PhD Final Dissertation Defense: Haiding Sun
- Political Science Dissertation Defense of Abram Trosky
- 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
- COM Students Learn How to Report the Most Difficult Stories December 11, 2018Sarah Kess was a student at an all-girls high school in Ohio when the two planes flew into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. “Most of the girls were crying and trying to call home, and I just instinctively took a notebook out and was going up to people asking them where […]
- CAS Prof, Fellow Researchers: Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests December 11, 2018Climate change often conjures up images of heat, drought, and hurricanes. But according to the latest US National Climate Assessment, released on November 23, winters have warmed three times faster than summers in the Northeast in recent years. These changes are also producing significant effects. Historically, over 50 percent of the northern hemisphere has had […]
- New Lawsuit Raises Old Question: Is It Time for Single-Sex Clubs to Go? December 11, 2018If inclusiveness is prized on college campuses, does it signal the demise of single-sex clubs at higher ed institutions? Should sororities and fraternities remain? What about all-female hip-hop troupes or men-only a cappella groups? Should they be given the stark choice to go coed or be banished? These may not be new questions, but they […]
- Office Artifacts: Ann Zumwalt December 10, 2018How do you get a sheep to exercise? Just ask Ann Zumwalt, a School of Medicine associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, who has sheep bones on display in her office. As a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Zumwalt wrote her dissertation on the effect exercise has on muscle attachment sites. […]
- The GSU Comes Alive in Our Special Animated Holiday Video December 10, 2018Ever wonder what happens at the GSU after midnight? Are its denizens nestled all snug in their beds? BU Today went on a mission to find out. At the stroke of midnight our hidden cameras recorded: one clock waking up, two books doing a tango, three squashes riding in on a sleigh, four…but enough spoilers. […]
