Calendar
All Topics (February 26 through February 26)
Wednesday, February 26
- All Day Susan Metrican: Wavy Panes
- All Day Courtney Licata: The Tragedy of Being Human
- All Day Shoayuan Sui
- All Day February Frenzy - Ubisoft
- All Day Cullen Washington Jr.: The Land Before Words
- All Day The Lightning Speed of the Present
- 10:00 AM Biology Dissertation Defense of Andrew B. Reinmann
- 11:00 AM Condensed Matter Seminar
- 11:30 AM Morbidity & Mortality Conference
- 1:00 PM Impact of an Adapted Smarter Lunchroom Intervention for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Chemistry Dissertation Defense of Xinrong Lin
- 2:00 PM Chemical Synthesis and Biological Studies of Antitumor Natural Products
- 3:00 PM BU Abroad 101
- Wed@Hariri: Armando Fox uses MOOCs to reinvigorate software engineering education
- 4:00 PM Art exhibition tour by curator Rachel Tolano
- Teaching & Learning in the US and China
- 4:30 PM Aegis Media Information Session
- 5:00 PM Turkish Night
- 6:00 PM Peace Corps Information Session
- Jewish Studies and Religion 2014 Course Sampling
- 6:30 PM The White House: First Mothers
- 7:00 PM Accumulation: Shannon Cochrane & Márcio Carvalho
- A Glimpse into Gush Katif: Series #3
- Dinner and Discussion
- Group Junior Recitals
BU Today: Latest Headlines
- Using Puppets to Communicate the Complex, the Abstract, and the Technical April 25, 2019Last fall, Vinamre Kasanaa was walking past Warren Towers when he saw a poster advertising a new Hub course being offered in the spring. The COM senior immediately ran home, dropped the digital cinema class he had signed up for, and registered instead for Thinking through Puppets and Performing Objects: Using Theatrical Tools to Communicate […]
- Neuroflight Is the World’s First Neural-Network-Enabled Drone Controller April 25, 2019Wil Koch found it “the coolest thing” when he first flew a drone, operating it wearing a headset connected to a video feed streaming live from a camera on the drone. Being a computer scientist, he looked for ways to make it even cooler. Read, and watch, how the BU graduate researcher and colleagues built […]
- Two BU Faculty Members to Be Honored Today April 25, 2019It’s an “age-old problem” in science instruction, Rosina Georgiadis says: the number of students often outstrips the availability of lab equipment for a given week’s topic. Georgiadis, a College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of chemistry, licked that problem—and in the process, might have upended the way science is taught. Professors typically address this […]
- And the Best BU Athletes of the Year Are… April 24, 2019Each year at a spring ceremony, BU awards the Rhettys, celebrating the achievements of BU athletes. From the major awards given by BU Athletics to the Athlete Choice Awards, nominated and voted on by fellow student-athletes, the Rhettys celebrate all things BU Athletics. Read about this year’s winners. Major Awards John B. Simpson Award Given […]
- CAS Class Explores Women in the Muslim World April 24, 2019Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU. The timing could not be better for Shahla Haeri’s BU class Women in the Muslim World, as women […]
