Calendar
Other Events (April 1 through April 5)
Monday, April 1
- 10:00 AM Clothesline Project Kickoff
- 12:00 PM MBA Information Session for Employees
- 3:00 PM Research Town Hall Meetings
- 5:30 PM Hollaback! Boston presents “Anti-Street Harassment” Workshop
- 7:00 PM National Public Health Week Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, April 2
- All Day Light It Up Blue-BU Goes Blue for Autism
- 11:00 AM BU's Scholars Day
- 12:00 PM Preventative Medicine
- 3:00 PM Research Town Hall Meetings
- 5:00 PM Queer Survivorship: Panel on Sexual Assault in the LGBTQIA Community
- 7:00 PM BU Speaks 2013: A Tribute to Howard Zinn
- Anti-War Coalition “The People Speak: A Tribute to Howard Zinn”
- 9:00 PM Ivy Man
Wednesday, April 3
- 12:00 PM Talk Series
- 7:30 PM Sitting Meditation with BU Zen Community
Thursday, April 4
- 10:00 AM How to Hire Consultants, Contractors, Freelanceres and Agency Temps
- 12:00 PM Talk Series
- 5:00 PM First Gen Spring Fling
- 5:30 PM New Venture Competition Finals
- 7:30 PM “After Words”: The Story Behind the Film
- Katie Koestner presents “She Just Sexted Me an Hour Ago!” Social Media, Video and Technology Related Sexual Misconduct
- 8:00 PM SAGE Jam 7
Friday, April 5
- All Day Application Deadline: Regus Management Group
- 10:00 AM Stand For Freedom
- 1:00 PM ECE Seminar with Jakub Szefer
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- BU Earns Greenovate Boston AwardBU’s favorite color—right behind scarlet and white, of course—is green. Why? Because the University has made a solid commitment over the past several years to embrace ecofriendly practices that have revolutionized the way it consumes energy and water, reduces waste, and expands in a sustainable manner. Now, that dedication to green living has caught the [... […]
- Free Ferry Day TodayWhat could be better than taking a boat trip to an island to wile away a summer day? Getting there for free. Today the Boston Harbor Island Alliance is offering free ferry service all day to either Georges Island or Spectacle Island, two of the nearly three dozen islands and peninsulas in the Boston Harbor […]
- Celebrate Bunker Hill DayMuch of the American Revolution was fought and won in Boston’s backyard, and today Bostonians commemorate the 238th anniversary of the first major battle of the war—the Battle of Bunker Hill. The siege, which took place on June 17, 1775, marked the first time the newly formed and inexperienced colonial army fought the more highly […]
- What the Supreme Court’s Gene Decision Means to ResearchIn a long-awaited decision with major implications for commercial and academic research, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes that are isolated from the body cannot be patented. The ruling invalidated patents held by Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City firm that had been granted patents on two genes, known as BRCA1 […]
- LAW’s Hylton, MED’s Costello Named Warren Distinguished ProfessorsWith a PhD in economics from MIT and a law degree from Harvard, Keith Hylton has melded the two disciplines in his teaching and research, using each to illuminate the other. A leader in the increasingly important field of mass spectrometry, Catherine Costello teaches and collaborates with medical researchers, pharmacologists, chemists, and clinicians around […]
