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All Topics (April 24 through May 19)

Friday, April 24

  • 1:00 PM
    Postdoc Town Hall
    Join Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs for a town hall meeting to talk about the University’s current plans to address the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, ask questions that relate to your postdoctoral experience (coronavirus-related or otherwise), and share your concerns with our team. Our panel will include:   Gloria Waters, Vice President & Associate…

Monday, April 27

Wednesday, April 29

  • 9:00 AM
    After the Fact Review Training (Virtual)
    The regular and documented review of posted financial transactions to the University’s general ledger by departmental financial and research administrators is a critical part of the University’s internal control process. This 1-hour training session is relevant for all departments, schools, and colleges and includes the importance of regularly reviewing transactions posted to fund centers, high…
  • 1:00 PM
    PUBLIC HEALTH FORUM—Working Together to Advance Health Equity
    Strategies for addressing disparities in health care are often myopic, or worse, dismissed as a distraction from rigorous health assessment. As health professionals, advocates, policymakers, and patients, we are all situated to directly effect change at a structural level for populations with complex health and social needs. This talk will address the individual and broader…
  • 2:30 PM
    Facebook Live "Ask Me Anything" with Dean Sandro Galea
    Dean Sandro Galea will be answering the public's questions about COVID-19 on Facebook Live.

Thursday, April 30

  • 12:00 PM
    Pardee Works: Summer & Career Planning in a Time of COVID-19
    Pardee graduate students are encouraged to join us for a session on planning for your professional future. Presenters will include Paul Nathanson ’85, Senior Principal at Bracewell in Washington, D.C., Komal Shah, Career Counselor at the BU Center for Career Development, and Katie Steele, Director of Student Affairs and Services at the Pardee School. RSVP…
  • 4:00 PM
    After COVID-19: (Re)Building Resilient Cities-Virtual
    This panel will explore the role of cities in creating the conditions for health, particularly in a time of pandemic. It will address how cities can be rebuilt with a focus on resilience and on promoting healthy populations. Cohosted with the Boston University Initiative on Cities.

Tuesday, May 5

  • 9:00 AM
    CReMinar/ CReM Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Regenerative Medicine Seminar speaker Jessie Huang. Join Zoom Meeting https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92500426407?pwd=ZnRzeXlvb2J6VjBGRi93bVJFUFhvUT Meeting ID: 925 0042 6407 Password: CReM To import the weekly zoom conference information iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system download URL link below.
  • 6:00 PM
    WBUR Town Hall: The Societal Costs of COVID-19
    The measures necessary to control the spread of Covid-19 will also have unprecedented consequences on our economy, health outcomes and social fabric. Job losses, school closures and the coming recession will exacerbate already existing social inequities. Public policies need to be implemented to protect the most vulnerable and prevent the consequences of future pandemics. WBUR…

Wednesday, May 6

Monday, May 11

  • 11:00 AM
    AIR Weekly Seminar Series
    Speaker 1: “Log-Likelihood Ratio Minimizing Flows” Ben Usman, Computer Science PhD Student, Boston University Speaker 2: “Stochastic optimization with ODE update” Keyi Chen, Computer Science PhD Student, Boston University
  • 4:00 PM
    Webinar: Could Better Investments in Public Health Infrastructure Have Prevented COVID-19’s Destructive Impact?
    Why were healthcare providers so unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic? Could better investments in public health infrastructure have prevented such widespread chaos and sickness? Why can’t our society keep up with quarantine? Professor Emerita Frances Miller, Professor Kevin Outterson, and Professor Nicole Huberfeld will examine the grave and widespread policy issues that left the US…

Tuesday, May 12

  • 9:00 AM
    CReM Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Regenerative Medicine Seminar Presenter: Jake Le Suer Join Zoom Meeting https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92500426407?pwd=ZnRzeXlvb2J6VjBGRi93bVJFUFhvUT09 Meeting ID: 925 0042 6407 Password: CReM
  • 12:00 PM
    BUSM Virtual Town Hall on Recovery Plans
    Join us on May 12 at Noon for a Town Hall addressing the School’s recovery planning and a Q&A with BUSM leadership. Please register using URL below and submit your questions by May 11.
  • 6:00 PM
    WBUR Town Hall: How Acting on Climate Change Can Prevent Future Pandemics
    Preventing deforestation, rethinking agricultural practices and reducing air pollution will help protect us from viruses like COVID-19. WBUR senior environment editor Barbara Moran speaks with Dr. Aaron Bernstein, pediatrician at Boston's Children's Hospital and director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health. This livestreamed event…

Wednesday, May 13

  • 1:00 PM
    COVID-19 & Cities: Pollution and the Environment
    Please join the Boston University Initiative on Cities (IOC) for a webinar to learn about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban air quality and the environment, and the implications for the future of environmental policy and climate change. Graham Wilson, Director of the Initiative on Cities, will moderate and be joined by: —…
  • 5:00 PM
    AlzTalks with Dr. Ron Killiany
    Join the Alzheimer's Association for an overview of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia and recent advances in research, including discussion about how changes in the brain from aging and disease impact cognitive symptoms. Link provided upon registration.

Thursday, May 14

  • 4:00 PM
    DEAN'S SEMINAR: CORONAVIRUS SEMINAR SERIES—Climate Change and Health: Learning from COVID-19
    Our Coronavirus Seminar Series will address different aspects of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing together experts to discuss the causes and consequences of this global pandemic. The seminars aim to provide our community and the public with state-of-the-science information about the pandemic and its intersection with public health, and keep us all connected to one another…
  • 6:30 PM
    Yousef Bashir: One Palestinian Family’s Quest for Peace [online]
    The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University is honored to host Palestinian-American peace activist Yousef Bashir for the 2020 Yitzhak Rabin Lecture. Mr. Bashir will join us live, online on Thursday, May 14th at 7:30pm EDT! The lecture, originally scheduled to take place on-campus in late March, was initially postponed. This rescheduled…

Monday, May 18

  • 11:00 AM
    AIR Weekly Seminar Series
    AIR Weekly Seminar: “Learning to Scale Multilingual Representations for Vision-Language Tasks” Andrea Burns, Computer Science PhD Student, Boston University

Tuesday, May 19

  • 9:00 AM
    CReMinar/ CReM Virtual Seminar Series
    Center for Regenerative Medicine Seminar speaker Martin Mar. Join Zoom Meeting https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/92500426407?pwd=ZnRzeXlvb2J6VjBGRi93bVJFUFhvUT Meeting ID: 925 0042 6407 Password: CReM To import the weekly zoom conference information iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system download URL link below.

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