Wednesday, October 3

• 12:00 PM Poetry reading and conversation with Arabic poet Ghassan Zaqtan
•   Revisiting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• 5:00 PM "Rethinking Religion and Art," Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University)

Thursday, October 4

• 12:30 PM BU's Road to Washington: An Election Year Series
• 4:30 PM New York Times Editor Adam Bryant: Tips from the Corner Office
• 6:00 PM Friends Speaker Series - Hedrick Smith
•   How I Became a Quant: A Panel for Students

Friday, October 5

• 12:00 PM Dendritic Signal Processing in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Under Physiological and Pathological Conditions
•   Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar
• 1:45 PM “Cockroach Allergen Induced Asthma Exacerbation by Macrophage Phenotypes”
• 3:00 PM MSE Colloquium: John Reppy, Cornell University
•   CISE Seminar: Jian Li, IBM Austin Research Lab
• 4:30 PM School of Visual Arts presents: Vik Muniz

Monday, October 8

• 5:00 PM Boston University Activist Expo

Tuesday, October 9

• 12:00 PM The Influence of the Internet on Integration and Multiculturalism in Germany: A German-Turkish Muslim Blogger’s Observations
•   Emerging Roles for Neuron-Glia Interactions in the Neuropathology of Drug Abuse
•   Photonics Seminar with Karlene Hoo
• 12:30 PM Open Study Design and Statistical Analysis Consultation
• 1:15 PM Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar: Mechanism-based insights into prognosis and treatment of breast cancer derived from high resolution multiphoton imaging
• 6:00 PM Peepli Live
• 6:30 PM Lecture: How to Make Healthcare More Effective

Wednesday, October 10

• 12:00 PM "Thyroid Functioning and the Aging Brain"
• 1:30 PM Music in 16th-century England: the Peterhouse Partbooks (c.1540)
• 2:00 PM Building Better Luciferins and Fluorophores for Live Cell Imaging
• 4:00 PM The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation – A talk by Marius Busemeyer