University Events - University Events

Personal Power Photo Contest

Submit a photo that best captures your personal power and you could win a Wii Fit!! The Personal Power Photo Contest will run from February 1st, 2012 to February 10th, 2012 on BuStudentHealth's Facebook page. Photo submissions will be displayed in a Facebook album so that friends of BuStudentHealth can vote for a photo by "liking" it. The winner will be chosen on February 14th, 2012, based on the number of "likes" the photo receives and review by an independent panel of judges.

12:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://www.facebook.com/bustudenthealth

Senior Portraits - Last Chance!

Last Chance BU Seniors! LifeTouch Photography will be on campus January 30-February 10 for your FREE senior portrait session. "So what do I wear?", you ask. Something nice, plus, we'll have caps and gowns available. But hurry, the time slots are limited. This is your final opportunity, so don't miss out. Go to bu.edu/yearbook and use code 235 or call 1-800-OUR-YEAR.

12:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://www.bu.edu/yearbook/

Champagne: A Global History with Becky Sue Epstein

Champagne, sparkling wine, fizz, bubbly--whatever it is, we like it! From the pop of a cork to the smash of a bottle on the side of a new ship, champagne signals celebration, fun, and camaraderie. Bubbly, as we affectionately call it, is a symbol of luxury--and the preferred drink for any important toast. Becky Sue Epstein is an award-winning journalist and an experienced editor, broadcaster, and consultant in wine, spirits, food, and travel. Her new book, Champagne: A Global History, reveals the origins of the world's great sparkling wines, telling the stories of those who made champagne famous, from Dom Perignon to Veuve Clicquot, and describing the evolution of the sparkling wines of other regions that are now so popular. Epstein writes on wine and spirits for numerous online and print publications. Each participant will receive a copy of Epstein's book

6:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Global Health in Focus

Global Health in Focus: Photographs by Kristen Ashburn, Dominic Chavez, and David Rochkind February 9 -- March 24, 2012 Through arresting images, photographers Kristen Ashburn, Dominic Chavez, and David Rochkind document the heavy toll that global health issues take on the developing world. Their poignant photographs invite us beyond the grim, faceless statistics and bring us in close contact with people--mothers, fathers, children--confronted by enormous hardship.

10:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://www.bu.edu/prc/exhibit/exhibit2012_globalhealth.htm

IS&T SCV Tutorial - Graphics Programming in C/C++: OpenGL

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a software interface to graphics hardware. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex two and three-dimensional scenes from simple geometric primitives such as points, lines, and polygons. There are also routines for rendering the scenes with control over lighting, object surface properties, transparency, anti-aliasing and texture mapping. OpenGL is designed as a streamlined, hardware-independent interface to be implemented on many different graphics hardware platforms. It is the most widely used, supported, and best documented 2D/3D graphics API. This hands-on tutorial will give an introduction to graphics programming using OpenGL, We will cover the basics of: interfacing with the windowing system, color, lighting, surface properties, texture mapping, and transforms. If you try to sign up for this tutorial and find that it is full, please send email to scv-tutorial@bu.edu and we will do our best to accommodate you.

10:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

100 Years (version #4 Boston, 2012)

Organized by MoMA PS1 in collaboration with Performa, this exhibition is an essential introduction to performance art. With over 200 works including film and audio, 100 Years is intended as an archive of a largely unknown history for students, scholars, and enthusiasts. The timeline begins with 1909's Futurist Manifesto and continues to the present, with the addition of programming that highlights Boston's own contribution to performance. Free and open to the public. Call 617-353-3371 for details. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts.

10:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://bu.edu/art

Willard Traub: Recovery

Willard Traub: Recovery February 9 -- March 24, 2012 Recovery is a photographic meditation on affliction and rehabilitation by Willard Traub. The work reflects the artist's own experiences battling a rare form of blood cancer, drawing on the strength of his talents as a photographer. Recovery began when Traub was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, and examines his treatment, hospitalization, and recovery process. The images, combined with personal prose and poetry, provide an intimate and hopeful commentary on a disease that signifies much larger life issues. Willard Traub is a Massachusetts based photographer whose interests range from the commercial photography of architecture to teaching to fine art photography. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Photography Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Polaroid Foundation Grant, his work is represented in private, museum and corporate collections, both nationally and abroad.

10:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://www.bu.edu/prc/exhibit/exhibit2012_traub.htm

Processes and Dreams

This exhibition will feature photographs by Jennifer Hudson, Ken Rosenthal, Michael Donnor, Tami Bone, Bryan David Griffith, Rachel Phillips, Curtis Werhfritz and Emmanuelle Germain.

10:30am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Panopticon Gallery inside Hotel Commonwealth 502c Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215

Shira Avidor & Cathy Lees: Interior Reflections

Two-person exhibition featuring School of Visual Arts alumnae Shira Avidor and Cathy Lees. Free and open to the public. Call 617-353-3371 for details. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts.

11:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Sherman Gallery, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd Floor

http://www.bu.edu/cfa/visual

The Calender's Tales: Fantasy, Figuration & Representation

Presenting the work of contemporary artists who invent mythological beings, fantastic creatures, allegorical figures, fictional characters, and personal avatars to both humble and heroic proportions in order to critically engage and challenge concepts of otherness.

11:00am on Thursday, February 9th 2012

808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue

http://www.bu.edu/cfa/visual

ID Grand Rounds

Lynda Shuster, LICSW

12:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Evans Seminar Room

LL.M. in American Law Colloquium Series

Presentation by Professor Michael Harper on the U.S. Sports Industry. All LL.M. in American law are required to attend at least two of the three scheduled presentations. There will be a free luncheon for all students served before each presentation, beginning at 12:30 pm. Attendance will be taken shortly thereafter with presentations beginning promptly at 1:00 pm (ending by 2:00 pm).

12:30pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

1270

Systems Biology Seminar

12:45pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

http://www.bu.edu/bioinformatics/news/events/sysbioseminars/

Legislative Process & Congressional Documents Certification Class

Most lawyers must do legislative history research at some point in their career. This research intensive task is a favorite assignment for young attorneys. Learn about the documents you need to complete a legislative history and where you can find them.

1:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Room 334

http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/classes/programs/skills.html

Mitul Desai (BU Law '98), Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State: Discussion and Advising

Lunch and discussion from 1-2 PM in Room 1420. Individual advising sessions to follow in the CDO by appointment, please sign-up on the board located outside of the CDO. Interested in international law, foreign relations, business law, corporate law, banking and/or intellectual property law? Please join us for a discussion with Mitul Desai, a BU Law alumnus, whose career after BU Law has included work in private practice, as an entrepreneur and analyst, as in-house counsel and his current position in federal government. Mitul Desai is Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships in the U.S. Department of State's South & Central Asian Bureau. In this capacity, he engages private sector, NGO, and diaspora organizations to build partnerships around a variety of issues impacting the region, including entrepreneurship, philanthropy, trade & technology. Mitul comes to government from the corporate arena, where he worked as an investment bank analyst, entrepreneur, and intellectual property attorney. Before joining the State Department, he was an entrepreneur in the international life sciences sector, and an equity research analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co., where he analyzed publicly traded companies for institutional investor clients. He began his post-law school career by practicing law as an associate at the New York offices of global law firms, and as a senior attorney at Merck & Co. He received his B.A. in chemistry and philosophy from Rutgers University, and his J.D. from the Boston University School of Law. From 2006-2011, Mitul was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Refreshments will be served. Please sign-up for individual advising sessions on the board outside of the CDO and plan to bring a copy of your current resume to the session.

1:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Room 1420

IS&T SCV Tutorial - Graphics Programming in C/C++: OpenSceneGraph

OpenSceneGraph (OSG) is a well-established open source scene graph toolkit supporting high-performance 3D graphics, used by application developers in fields such as visual simulation, games, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling. Written entirely in Standard C++ and OpenGL, it runs on a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, Solaris and FreeBSD. It supports large databases, particle effects, shadows, texture map font rendering, bulk culling and many other advanced rendering functionalities. This tutorial will present a hands-on introduction to OpenSceneGraph. We will learn how to draw basic geometric objects, load a scene from a file, manage the scene with transformations and apply various rendering effects. If you try to sign up for this tutorial and find that it is full, please send email to scv-tutorial@bu.edu and we will do our best to accommodate you.

2:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Interfaith Harmony Symposium

Keynote speaker and essay contest winners present. Discussion and light refreshments will follow.

2:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

School of Theology Room 325

Study Abroad Information Session: Sydney Entertainment Promotion & Film Studies Program

Come hear returned students talk about their experiences on the Sydney Entertainment Promotion & Film Studies Program. A short film will be shown. The program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Hosted by Program Manager Jeff Conradi.

2:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

COM 106

http://www.bu.edu/maps/?id=111

World MBA Tour - Boston

The World MBA Tour offers prospective MBA students an opportunity to meet representatives from the world's top business schools. This event is designed to help candidates make informed education and career choices as they consider pursuing a graduate degree.

4:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

Hynes Convention Center 900 Boylston Street Boston, MA

Workshop: Court Cultures in Comparison

Presenters: Gina Cogan (Religion), Emine Fetvaci (Art History), and Wiebke Denecke (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature). Refreshments will be provided. Part of the Comparative Studies of the Premodern World Initiative.

4:00pm on Thursday, February 9th 2012

STH 625, 745 Commonwealth Ave.

http://www.bu.edu/premodern/