Calendar
Other Events (January 26 through February 3)
Saturday, January 26
- 5:00 PM International Roundtable 2013
- 8:00 PM ICCA Quarter Final
Sunday, January 27
- 8:00 AM International Roundtable 2013
Monday, January 28
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Scientific Visualization
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Xi Chen
Tuesday, January 29
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Linux
- 12:00 PM Photonics Forum: Lab Safety Training
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Linux
- 6:00 PM Alpha Kappa Psi Information Session
Wednesday, January 30
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to C Programming, Part One
- 1:30 PM PhD Dissertation Prospectus Defense: Jonathan Schuster
- 5:00 PM Book Talk: Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks - Jenny White
- 6:30 PM LSAT Prep Company Expo
Thursday, January 31
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to C Programming, Part Two
- 12:45 PM Bioinformatics Faculty Search Seminar
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Python for Programmers
- 6:00 PM Drash 'n Dine
- 8:00 PM Tora Dojo
Friday, February 1
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to C Programming, Part Three
- 1:00 PM WilmerHale Legal Office Hours
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Python for Programmers
- 4:00 PM Pitch & Pizza Competition
- 6:00 PM Compassionate Leadership
Sunday, February 3
- All Day Application Deadline: Insight Global
- 5:00 PM Super Bowl Dinner
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- NSF CAREER Award Goes to ENG Prof February 27, 2015Thin rods and other active materials that can bend and fold on command are essential to the engineering of smart needles, soft robotic arms, and other flexible devices that can improve care in fields such as medicine, for instance. Douglas Holmes, a College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has received a National Science […]
- BU’s Kotlikoff One of Most Influential Economists February 27, 2015Being ranked among the world’s most influential economists is an honor that BU’s Laurence Kotlikoff welcomes. And doubts. “Janet Yellen is much more influential than anybody right now,” says Kotlikoff, who clocked in at number 19 on the Economist magazine’s top-25 list. Yet the Federal Reserve chairwoman (and Kotlikoff’s former professor) was not on the list […]
- Modern Retelling of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at BU Theatre February 27, 2015Call this the year of Anton Chekhov, reimagined. Boston theater audiences were treated to a comic mashup of the great Russian playwright’s works last month with the Huntington Theatre Company’s critically lauded production of Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Now comes Uncle Jack, a modern retelling of Chekhov’s classic tragicomedy Un […]
- POV: Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer to Excessive Force February 27, 2015Amidst the public discourse about the deaths of black men in violent encounters with the police, President Obama has called for funding to expand the use of body-worn video cameras to record police-public interactions. The political appeal of this initiative is easy to see: it is quick, seemingly simple to implement, and broadly understood. Given […]
- Pulling Punches with Angie Jepson February 26, 2015The notion of stage fights conjures images of Shakespearean jousts or operatic duels, all clanking swords and fancy footwork. But today’s fight directors craft melees from playful wrestling to barroom brawls. CFA’s Angie Jepson has choreographed staged rapes and attempted rapes as well as intimate physical tussling.
