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
- Women’s Ice Hockey Team’s Unstoppable Marie-Philip Poulin January 23, 2015On a chilly night last fall, Marie-Philip Poulin (CAS ’15), captain of the women’s ice hockey team, was showing her trademark prowess on the ice. With the Terriers shorthanded in the first period, the Connecticut Huskies were trailing by a goal and trying desperately to even up the score. A UConn player sent a pass […]
- New BU Tanglewood Institute Director Strikes Optimistic Chord January 23, 2015Building on the legacy of her longtime predecessor, Phyllis Hoffman (CFA’61,’67), Hilary Field Respass, the new executive director of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), has been working behind the scenes this winter to boost the profile and long-term viability of the organization. Based in Lenox in the rolling hills and fields near the Tangle […]
- A Musical Conversation of 35 Years… and Counting January 23, 2015For 35 years, the Muir String Quartet has been touring the nation and the world, taking the stage at concert halls grand and modest, and garnering awards from a Grammy to two Grand Prix des Disques. Since 1983, Boston University has been the celebrated chamber ensemble’s physical and artistic home, and on Monday, January 26, the group will take the stage at […]
- A Campus Minority: Students Against Abortion January 22, 2015Single children are hardly unusual: more than four out of every 10 American families with kids has just one. But only-child status has always haunted Sylvia Olejnik. “My mom had two miscarriages when I was little,” she says. Olejnik was so young that she barely understood what had happened, but 10 years later, as she […]
- Mission to Mars January 22, 2015At this moment, a NASA satellite called MAVEN is circling Mars, and it’s covered with Boston University fingerprints. (Not literally, of course. That would be tacky.) MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, and it’s the first satellite dedicated to studying Mars’ upper atmosphere. Understanding the thinning Martian atmosphere might e […]
