Calendar
Other Events (February 8 through February 13)
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 POSTPONED: Winterfest 2013
- Application Deadline: Accenture
- 6:00 PM Rabbi Shlomo Katz at BU Hillel
Monday, February 11
- 10:00 AM Feed One
- IS&T SCV Tutorial - Introduction to MATLAB
- 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
- 2:00 PM IS&T SCV Tutorial - Scientific Visualization Using ParaView
- 4:00 PM Statistics and Probability Seminar Series: Modeling dependence in multivariate time series
- Have More Money $$$ "Financial Rules of Thumb Workshop"
- 5:00 PM Dinner with the Dean: Dean Coleman
- 7:00 PM The Ha Jin Visiting Lecture Series
Wednesday, February 13
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- $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. […]
- 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 […]
