Calendar
Lectures (March 27 through March 29)
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
- ECE Seminar with Sokrates T. Pantelides
- Causes and Consequences of Urban Hospital Closings and Reconfiguration, 1936-2010
- 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
- 10:00 AM Training and Supervising Student Employees
- 12:30 PM The Economics of the Eurozone Crisis: A luncheon discussion with Stefan Collignon
- 1:00 PM CTSI Presensts Research Computing Facilities available through IS&T Scientific Computing and Visualization
- 2:00 PM Sociology & Social Work Dissertation Defense of Ivy Krull
- Department Seminar
- 3:00 PM Spring Faculty Assembly
- 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium/Benson T. Chertok Lecture
- 4:00 PM International Perspectives on the Fight against Human Trafficking
- Luke Miratrix - Harvard University
- Space Physics Seminar with Michael Nicolls
- ECE Seminar with Lingkai Kong
- Visions of a Sustainable Future: Journalists as Public Intellectuals in the Climate Change Debate
- 6:00 PM The Future of Bicycling: Laws and Policies
Friday, March 29
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. […]
