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Lectures (April 5 through April 8)

Friday, April 5

  • 11:00 AM Genome Science Institute Seminar
  • 12:00 PM “Enlightenment”: Patents and Embedded Knowledge in a Taiwanese LED Company
  • 1:00 PM Thesis Defense John Brothers
  •   ECE Seminar with Jakub Szefer
  •   Literary Translation Lecture Series
  • 2:00 PM Particle and Fields Seminar
  •   Chemistry Dissertation Defense of Liang Han
  • 3:00 PM CISE Seminar: Yue Lu, Harvard University
  •   Joint CCS/MSE Seminar - Towards computational design of correlated functional materials from first-principles
  •   Anthropology Dissertation Defense of Lara Durgavich
  • 4:00 PM American & New England Studies Dissertation Defense of Eric Jarvis
  • 5:00 PM Classical Studies Dissertation Defense of Viviane Sophie Klein
  • 5:30 PM Money and Medicine screening and panel discussion with Shannon Brownlee

Saturday, April 6

  • All Day YogaCHA Day of Wellness Event
  • 10:30 AM Be the Hero!
  • 2:00 PM Local Grassroots Organizing Workshop

Monday, April 8

  • 10:00 AM Mathematics & Statistics Dissertation Defense of Ross Sweet
  • 10:30 AM Roundtable Series
  • 12:00 PM FDD Seminar: Identifying the Struggling Resident and Remediating Successfully
  •   The Walter Rodney Seminar Series
  • 1:00 PM Economics Dissertaion Defense of Jiawen Xu
  •   PhD Final Defense of Nenad Bozinovic
  •   Bioinformatics Dissertation Defense of Lisa Pham
  •   Leveraging the Computational Perspective: Interactive Text Visualization for Humanists
  • 1:30 PM Mathematics & Statistics Dissertation Defense of Ikemefuna Agbanusi

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November 19, 2014

Charge to the Task Force on General Education: Developing the intellectual framework for a University-wide General Education Program at Boston University

November 19, 2014

Calendar

  • 1/26 Application Period Opens for 2015 Graduate Summer Fellows Program
  • 1/26 Biostatistics Dissertation Defense of Zhaoyang Teng
  • 1/26 GRS Dissertation Defense of Andrew McMurry
  • 1/26 Exploring the Role of Social and Cultural Determinants Influencing Latino HIV and Substance Abuse Health Disparities
  • 1/26 Monday Meditation

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