Calendar
Other Events (March 17 through March 21)
Sunday, March 17
- All Day Scholars Day Abstract Deadline
Monday, March 18
- All Day Register: Business Start-up Boot Camp
- 4:00 PM ECE Seminar with Pingshan Wang
- Philosophy with Rabbi Beyo
Tuesday, March 19
- All Day Register: Business Start-up Boot Camp
- 8:30 AM History of Art & Architecture Dissertation Defense of Austin Porter
- 3:00 PM Political Science Dissertation Defense of Robert Alexander Whalen
- 5:00 PM The EU Inside Out: A Panel Discussion with Ambassadors of Lithuania and Ukraine to the US
- 7:00 PM BU Clothesline Project
- 7:30 PM Krav Maga
Wednesday, March 20
- All Day Register: Business Start-up Boot Camp
- 12:00 PM Understanding Current Drugs for Diabetes
- HEM Open House
- 4:00 PM ECE Distinguished Lecture with Kim L. Boyer
- 5:00 PM Jewmba
- 6:00 PM Nights at the PRC
Thursday, March 21
- All Day Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health
- All Day Register: Business Start-up Boot Camp
- 12:00 PM ECE Seminar with Daniel Hsu
- 4:00 PM Coffee and Conversation with Rabbi Beyo
- 5:30 PM Madewell Pop-Up Denim Party
- 6:00 PM MacGuffin Series: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- 8:00 PM Mr. and Ms. BU
- Tora Dojo
- Alice in FitRec Land
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Video Captures Highlights of BU’s 2017 Commencement May 22, 2017It was an ideal day for a Commencement—neither too hot nor too cold, mostly sunny skies, and low humidity. A crowd of about 20,000 family, friends, and dignitaries gathered on Nickerson Field for Boston University’s 144th Commencement to listen to Bonnie Hammer (CGS’69, COM’71, SED’75, Hon.’17), chair of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group, deliver the main […]
- Saying Yes to Everything May 22, 2017When 13-year-old Bolivian-born Bruna Pino (CAS’17) came to the United States, she knew no English and “felt sort of foreign.” Beginning college a bit later than fellow BU freshmen determined to be “as involved as possible,” she did just that, and is proud to be graduating with “the ability to have faith in myself.”
- A Storyteller Advises BU Grads to Write Their Own Life Story May 21, 2017Pairing the names Odysseus and Kim Kardashian in the same sentence seems unlikely, but Bonnie Hammer, the Hollywood Reporter’s “Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment,” strung them together in her BU Commencement speech Sunday, offering a storyteller’s advice on how the graduates might construct the narrative of a successful postcollege life. “When you leave today, you’ll […]
- Do Your Future Work with Passion, Nobel Laureate Tells Graduating University Seniors May 21, 2017Mario Molina, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist and longtime advocate for climate change control, spoke about the critical role of science in society, as well as the need to pursue one’s future work with passion, in an inspiring Baccalaureate Address to the Class of 2017 at Marsh Chapel Sunday morning. Molina (Hon.’17) said that while science […]
- Commencement Student Speaker: Responsibility to Tell the Truth May 19, 2017Graduation has been a long time coming for this year’s Commencement student speaker. Maxwell T. Robidoux entered BU as a freshman in 2010, but left after just three semesters. “I matriculated in 2010, and was here a year and a half before taking time off and moving back home to Seattle,” says Robidoux (CAS’17). “I […]
