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Special Interest to Women (March 5 through May 31)
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BU Today: Latest Headlines
- 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 […]
- Student-Run Campaign Focuses on Sexual Assault Response March 4, 2015A student-run campaign and website called This Is NOT OK Boston, launched last month by Boston University’s Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism, is seeking to organize and promote the sexual assault response and prevention work done by survivors, activists, and organizations in the Boston area working to “create safe(r) spaces in our community.” This […]
- Speaking, Cooking and Singing in Zulu March 4, 2015The daughter of missionaries, Beth Restrick grew up in South Africa, Swaziland, and Mozambique, where she learned to speak miscellaneous words in a swirl of native languages as well as colonial Portuguese. But it wasn’t until she arrived at BU as full-time director of the African Studies Library that she learned to converse properly in […]
- New Office Helps BU Meet Regulatory Mandates March 3, 2015Faculty and staff at large research universities like Boston University have to manage a thicket of federal, state, and local regulations. A recent report from a bipartisan Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education noted that “colleges and universities find themselves enmeshed in a jungle of red tape, facing rules that are often confusing and […]
- An Eye-Popping Show at the Sherman Gallery March 3, 2015For anyone tired of this winter’s monochromatic landscape (snow-filled skies above and slushy gray sidewalks below), a new show at the Sherman Gallery offers a handy antidote. Titled The Beatles Are Dull and Ordinary: Drawings by David X. Levine, it features a series of lushly colored pencil abstracts by an exceedingly talented artist. Levine’s work is […]
