Calendar
Lectures (March 18 through March 21)
Monday, March 18
- 12:00 PM The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- "Your Children, Tweens and Teens Online: What You Don't Know Could Hurt Them"
- 1:00 PM BUCH Fellows' Seminar: Deeana Klepper
- 4:00 PM GMS Career Development Seminar Series: Becoming a Leader - Cultivating Leadership Skills for Career Advancement
- ECE Seminar with Pingshan Wang
- Philosophy with Rabbi Beyo
- 7:00 PM Corrine Jaber and Joyce Van Dyke: A Conversation on Contemporary Theatre
Tuesday, March 19
- 12:30 PM GMS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Speaker Series: Enriching Your Mentoring Relationships A How-To Workshop for Mentees and Mentors
- 2:00 PM PhD Dissertation Seminar, Department of Microbiology
- 3:00 PM Genome Science Institute Seminar
- 5:00 PM African American Studies Lecture Series
- With Shakespeare from Kabul to the Globe
- The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Ambassadors of Lithuania and Ukraine to the US
Wednesday, March 20
- 12:00 PM Understanding Current Drugs for Diabetes
- 6:00 PM Metropolitan Opera Chorus Master Donald Palumbo
- 7:30 PM Dick Lehr Book Signing
Thursday, March 21
- 12:00 PM ECE Seminar with Daniel Hsu
- 2:00 PM Ethics in Science
- 5:00 PM Lectures in Criticism: Joseph Roach: New Poetics: Performance Studies and the Research University
- Catholic Vocations in a Time of Change
- 6:00 PM Teaching the Body: The Apotheosis of the Dissected Plate, or Spectacles of Layering and Transparency in 19th- & 20th-Century Anatomy, a Lecture by Dr. Michael Sappol, Historian, National Library of Medicine
- Crime Pays: Villains & Sleuths in Fact & Fiction
- MacGuffin Series: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Beyond These Walls: Religious Leaders' Civic Engagement of Silently-Loud Issues
- A Fine "Linea": How Italian Food Advertisements Reflected and Affected Gender Division
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- SPH Convocation Speaker: Become “Dauntless Doers”Julie Gerberding inhabits a world of long-winded conference calls and consensus-building meetings. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been known to interject, “people are dying. Let’s step up. Let’s get the decision made. Let’s move on.” But in offering advice to School of Public Health […]
- Chinese Students Adjust to American EducationLili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And […]
- BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edXBU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform that shares the University’s commitment to using technology’s benefits for students on campus as well as off. The partnership will give BU professors more flexibility in designing their courses and discerning which educational methods work best with students. Membership obligates BU to offer […]
- “Find That Next Bill Cosby”People outside Walter Brown Arena must have heard the roar of the crowd inside Saturday morning when Bill Cosby told the 2013 School of Education graduates, “Don’t you dare accept that you’re teachers because you can’t do anything else.” Sporting a tasseled Terrier baseball cap and wriggling out of his academic robe to reveal a […]
- The Sights and Sounds of Commencement 2013After the tents come down and the chairs are folded, the sights and sound of Commencement 2013 live on as part of BU’s long-standing Commencement tradition. These are some of the best moments from Sunday’s ceremony. […]
