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POV: Fifty Shades of Grey Reflects Continuing Inequality for Women
Is this the best our culture can do on sexuality?
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New Office Helps BU Meet Regulatory Mandates
Veteran BU lawyer heads new Compliance Services
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An Eye-Popping Show at the Sherman Gallery
David Levine’s pencil drawings offer plenty of color, wit
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Untangling the Connectome
MED's Bobby Kasthuri thinks a map of the human brain—the so-called connectome—could help explain how our brains develop from childhood and give deep insights into memory and consciousness. But there’s a problem: the map of one mouse brain would consume about two billion gigabytes of storage.
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BU has accepted all races, creeds, and sexes from its inception, but pandas may be a first for any institution of higher learning. This possible new student, flanked by Brian Lee (CAS’16) (left) and Kevin Chan (SMG’18), helps man a Ping-Pong game table at the Asian New Year Celebration at the GSU February 26. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
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Tuesday
- Coffee with the BUPD12:00pm
- Urban Seminar Series: Teaching the City12:00pm
- African American Studies Film Series: “Stormy Weather”5:00pm
- School of Theology Lowell Lecture, Concert, and Reception5:00pm
- Open House for Project Career5:30pm
- Poetry Reading by Peg Boyers6:00pm
- The Advent of the Anthropocene: Was That the Big Story of the 2oth Century?7:00pm
- All Campus Orchestra8:00pm
Don’t Miss
Open House for Project CAREER
Have you ever had a concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Do you experience difficulties with school because of it? Do you know of someone with a brain injury? Project CAREER is an interprofessional demonstration designed to improve the employment success of undergraduates with TBI. Come to an open house to learn more about the program and services. Sargent College, Room 554, 635 Commonwealth Ave.; free and open to the public.
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- M. Ice Hockey. Hockey East Tabs Grzelcyk Player of the Week March 2, 2015
- M. Lacrosse. Jack Wilson March 2, 2015
- M. Lacrosse. Wilson Named Patriot League Rookie of the Week March 2, 2015
Series Spotlight
One Class, One Day
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is a series of visits to one class, on one day, in search of those building blocks at BU.
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Learning from Boston’s Top Cop
BPD Commissioner William Evans teaches summer class
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Jerusalem: How Did It Get to Be the Holy City?
Zank’s class ponders centuries of conflict, zeal, and spin
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The History of Shopping
CAS class studies the modern American consumer
In Your Words
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Salute to Leonard Nimoy (Hon.’12), Star Trek Icon, Boston Son
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POV: Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer to Excessive Force
2“As the mother of a female college student who, with many other female students, was served drinks mixed with date-rape …”
Fraternity Suspended for Party Promotion
60“Congrats to Professor Kotlikoff and BU Econ. It is unfortunate, though, that the professor has limited his focus of generational …”
BU’s Kotlikoff One of Most Influential Economists
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