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Men’s Basketball Vies for Patriot League Championship Tonight
A win would send Terriers to the NCAA tournament
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 3: The Search for the Alcohol Trigger
CAS prof says context, mood affect consumption
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ASB Volunteers: Tweet Your Experience
BU students share stories from around the country
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Spring Break in Beantown
What to do if you’re staying local
Special Report
The Addiction Puzzle, Part 1: An Overdose Lifeline
As medical director of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Opioid Overdose Prevention Pilot Program, MED’s Alexander Walley is helping to save lives and reduce the commonwealth's opioid overdose death rate.
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Alternative Spring Breaks Boston: volunteers Juliana Freeman (CAS’16) and Sean Burciago (CAS’17) work at a City Growers farm site in Dorchester March 11. City Growers’ mission is to transform vacant lots in Boston into economically and environmentally sustainable urban farms. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
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Wednesday
- Cullen Washington Jr.: The Land Before WordsAll Day
- Spring Recess - University ClosedAll Day
- The Lightning Speed of the PresentAll Day
- ADC Lecture: "Sports and Military TBI: Pathways to Neurodegeneration"12:00pm
Thursday
Don’t Miss
BUSM Alzheimer's Disease Center Spring Lecture Series
Ann McKee, a School of Medicine professor of neurology and pathology and a codirector of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, lectures on Sports and Military Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathways to Neurodegeneration. MED Instructional Building, Room L-112, 72 E. Concord St.; free and open to the public.
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Fighting Fat
There are many reasons why people are obese. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which estimates that one-third of Americans are obese, attributes the epidemic to genes, diet, socioeconomic status, environment, and lifestyle, among other things. At BU, dozens of researchers are searching for a better understanding of the causes of, and for solutions to, a health problem associated with heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer, and whose medical costs were $147 billion in 2008. In this four-part series, BU Today looks at their work in progress.
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Exploring the Causes of Black Women’s Obesity
Fighting Fat: Solutions include education, urban beautification, crime control
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The Cure for Obesity: Fat?
Fighting Fat: BU researchers probe energy-burning brown type
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Solving the Childhood Obesity Puzzle, One Piece at a Time
Fighting Fat: SSW profs focus on roles of maternal employment, abuse
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POV: Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 2: Could ADHD Meds Promote Future Cocaine Use?
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POV: Religion Cannot Excuse Discrimination
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Restoration Man
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Nightlife: First Fridays at the ICA
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