Calendar
Lectures (March 23 through March 28)
Saturday, March 23
Monday, March 25
- 12:00 PM Orthopedics: Shoulder Injuries
- The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- 1:00 PM Roundtable Series
- 2:30 PM MSE Seminar: Scott Bunch, University of Colorado
- 3:00 PM Computer Science Dissertation Defense of Gonca Gursun
- 3:30 PM MSE MS Thesis Defense of Jarrod Milshtein
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Sahand Neghaban
Tuesday, March 26
- 10:00 AM Procurement Approver Training
- 12:30 PM A music lecture by Salvatore Sciarrino
- 2:00 PM Speaker Series: Larry Tabb
- 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
- 4:00 PM A Balanced Discussion on "Too Big to Fail"
- 6:30 PM Contemporary Perspectives Lecture - Amy Franceschini
- 7:00 PM "Why Save Venice?" -- A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, March 27
- 10:00 AM Economics Dissertation Defense of Laura Salisbury
- 11:30 AM Morbidity and Mortality Conference
- 12:00 PM A prehispanic Maya cooking technology: Microanalysis of fired clay balls from the Puuc region, Yucatán, Mexico
- 4:00 PM SE PhD Final Oral Defense of Tao "Reno" Wang
- Causes and Consequences of Urban Hospital Closings and Reconfiguration, 1936-2010
- ECE Seminar with Sokrates T. Pantelides
- 6:00 PM Happiness at Work with Denmark's “Chief Happiness Officer” Alexander Kjerulf
- 6:30 PM Neal Rantoul: New Works and New Shows
- 8:00 PM Risks, Risk Management, and Planning for the Worst
Thursday, March 28
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Does Massachusetts Hate Business?It’s That ’70s Show time at Chief Executive magazine. A generation after Massachusetts was dubbed “Taxachusetts” for its putative hostility to business, the charge has been resurrected in the magazine via its latest state rankings, determined by a survey responded to by 736 CEOs. The commonwealth was rated 47th among states for the warmth of […]
- The Sun, the Sea, and a CarnivalWhat would summer be without taking in at least one carnival? One of the Boston area’s most famous, the Revere Beach Carnival, is currently under way, through Sunday, June 23—and you can get there by T. Even better, if you go tonight, you’ll get a discount. A promotion called “Wicked Wednesday” allows visitors to pay […]
- BU Earns Greenovate Boston AwardBU’s favorite color—right behind scarlet and white, of course—is green. Why? Because the University has made a solid commitment over the past several years to embrace ecofriendly practices that have revolutionized the way it consumes energy and water, reduces waste, and expands in a sustainable manner. Now, that dedication to green living has caught the [... […]
- Free Ferry Day TodayWhat could be better than taking a boat trip to an island to wile away a summer day? Getting there for free. Today the Boston Harbor Island Alliance is offering free ferry service all day to either Georges Island or Spectacle Island, two of the nearly three dozen islands and peninsulas in the Boston Harbor […]
- Celebrate Bunker Hill DayMuch of the American Revolution was fought and won in Boston’s backyard, and today Bostonians commemorate the 238th anniversary of the first major battle of the war—the Battle of Bunker Hill. The siege, which took place on June 17, 1775, marked the first time the newly formed and inexperienced colonial army fought the more highly […]
