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Special Interest to Women (September 24 through November 30)
Saturday, October 21
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Field Hockey Aiming for a Return to the Top September 22, 2017When the BU field hockey team fell to American 1-0 in last season’s Patriot League championship game, the upset was devastating. Led by the league’s 2017 Offensive Player of the Year Hester van der Laan (ENG’17) and Defensive Player of the Year Ellie Landsman (Questrom’17), the Terriers had dominated the league during the regular season […]
- Former NAACP Head Examines Ethics, Law, and Justice Movements September 22, 2017Minister and lawyer Cornell William Brooks, former president of the NAACP, can add a new title to the list: professor. One of the foremost civil rights leaders in the United States, Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15) joins Boston University this fall at a critical time. Hate crimes are on the rise, and racially polarizing politics have further […]
- BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Wins $5.4 Million NIH Grant September 21, 2017The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging has awarded the University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center (ADC) a three-year, $5.4 million grant to continue its research into interventions that will reduce the human and economic costs of Alzheimer’s disease and its related conditions, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
- Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2017 September 21, 2017With the new semester, BU has resumed its campaign against alcohol abuse, bolstering police patrols of known party neighborhoods, citing students for public intoxication, dispersing loud parties—and crucially, publicizing statistics on booze-control efforts by University and Boston police. The graphic above shows last weekend’s enforcement statistics. If you, or someone you know, have questions about […]
- Lunch, Anyone? Blaze Pizza September 21, 2017There’s no shortage of places to grab a slice of pizza around campus. Between T. Anthony’s, Otto’s (West Campus and Coolidge Corner), Oath Craft Pizza, Upper Crust Pizzeria, BU’s dining halls, and Domino’s, finding a fresh pizza has never been easier. Now, there’s a new contender thrown in the mix: Blaze Pizza, opened last month […]
