Calendar
Other Events (February 7 through February 12)
Thursday, February 7
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Fortran Programming, Part Two
- GMSSO Blood Drive
- 3:00 PM Chemistry Dissertation Defense of Laura Furst
- 6:00 PM Drash 'n Dine
- 7:00 PM Free Dance Lessons!
- 8:00 PM Tora Dojo
Friday, February 8
- 12:00 AM POSTPONED: Winterfest 2013
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Fortran Programming, Part Three
- 1:00 PM CANCELED: Stereotype Threat: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Self
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to Scientific Python
- 5:30 PM Shabbat Services and Dinner
Saturday, February 9
- 12:00 AM POSTPONED: Winterfest 2013
Sunday, February 10
- 12:00 AM Application Deadline: Accenture
- POSTPONED: Winterfest 2013
- 6:00 PM Rabbi Shlomo Katz at BU Hillel
Monday, February 11
- 10:00 AM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to MATLAB
- Feed One
- 12:00 PM Birthright Registration OPENS for previous applicants
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Graphics and Images for Publication and Presentation
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Prateek Mittal
- 6:00 PM Nuba Mountain Crisis Symposium
- Rothstein Kass Information Session
Tuesday, February 12
- All Day Application Deadline: Washington Media Scholars Foundation
- All Day Application Deadline: Sanofi Group
- 10:00 AM Feed One
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. […]
