Calendar
Lectures (March 30 through April 3)
Saturday, March 30
- 8:30 AM Customs and Laws of Purim and Pesach
- 9:00 AM Business Start-up Boot Camp
Monday, April 1
- 10:00 AM Economics Dissertation Defense of Michael Siemer
- 10:30 AM PhD Dissertation Seminar, Program in Nutrition and Metabolism
- 12:00 PM The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
- 2:00 PM Stress granules and tau: It takes TIA1 to tangle
- PhD Dissertation Seminar, Program in Nutrition and Metabolism
- 3:00 PM Research Town Hall Meetings
- 4:00 PM Speaker Series: Jeremiah Lowin, "All Models Are Wrong"
- 6:00 PM Film Screening + Director Talk: Snovi ("Dreams")
Tuesday, April 2
- 12:00 PM Preventative Medicine
- 2:00 PM Economics Dissertation Defense of Brittany A. Baumann
- 3:00 PM Research Town Hall Meetings
- 3:30 PM Physics Colloquium
- 5:00 PM African American Studies Lecture Series
- 6:00 PM Universal Free School Meals: An idea whose time has come
Wednesday, April 3
- 8:00 AM April 3 Dermatology Grand Rounds (Dr. Marie-France Demierre Conference)
- 12:00 PM Talk Series
- MCBB Dissertation Defense of Ryan C. Thompson
- Assessment of Damage in Injured and Diseased Skeletal Muscle
- 1:00 PM Division of Religious & Theological Studies Dissertation Defense of Emily Katherine Ronald
- 2:00 PM Computer Science Dissertation Defense of Ashwin Thangali Varadaraju
- Biostatistics Dissertation Defense of Lei Zhu
- 4:00 PM How (not) to Take Mockery Seriously: The Case of Cinesias
- 4:30 PM CCSR Seminar: Love and Jazz in Higher Education
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- BU at the Cannes Film FestivalBaz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby may have grabbed much of the attention at this year’s star-studded Cannes International Film Festival, which wraps up on Sunday. But the annual two-week event also features a roster of potential gems—features, short films, and documentaries from around the world. One of the festival’s lesser-known selections is Halfway Somewhe […]
- CAS’ Appavoo Nabs NSF CAREER AwardJonathan Appavoo has long been fascinated by computers. “They somehow seemed to mimic and reflect our own abilities,” he says. As he studied them in greater depth, he realized “that while they are fascinating machines, their ‘human’ qualities are largely achieved by smoke and mirrors. That being said, their ability to be programmed to do […]
- $2.5 Million Gift Creates Maria Stata ProfessorshipThe culture of ancient Greece is alive and well and living conspicuously, for those who pay attention, in the sciences, arts, architecture, politics, and philosophy of our everyday world. Now, thanks to a gift from Maria Stata (CAS’62), that enduring influence will be even more greatly appreciated by students and scholars in the College of […]
- Vanishing from an Archive Near You: History?Arrested in 2010 for a minuscule possession of pot, Connecticut nurse Lorraine Martin had her bust expunged from the court record after agreeing to drug classes. To her chagrin, however, she found employers rejecting her for jobs, for a reason she discovered after googling herself: archived news stories of her arrest, online for all to […]
- Commencement 2013: Before, During, and AfterWatch the setup, celebration, and breakdown of Boston University’s 140th Commencement in time-lapse. […]
