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Women’s Ice Hockey Terriers Head to NCAAs
Hoping for momentum from third consecutive Hockey East championship
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 5: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Addiction Research
Richard Saitz is SPH’s globe-trotting gadfly
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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
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 4: Why Alcoholics’ Gender Matters
By correlating subjects’ brain scans with their drinking histories, MED's Marlene Oscar Berman has discovered what appear to be compelling, complex neurological differences in the brains of alcoholic men and those of alcoholic women.
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BU Study Abroad student Shannon Harrington (CAS’15) signs a peace wall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Many write messages on the numerous peace walls around the city that separate Irish nationalist and unionist communities. Photo courtesy of Vicky Britton
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Friday
- Cullen Washington Jr.: The Land Before WordsAll Day
- Spring Recess - University ClosedAll Day
- The Lightning Speed of the PresentAll Day
- Boston Youth Moves Spring Concert8:00pm
Saturday
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Boston Youth Moves Spring Concert
Boston’s premier dance education program for teens presents its annual concert, featuring choreography from local artists and guest artist Kirven Douthit-Boyd of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Friday and Saturday performances at the BU Dance Theater, FitRec Center, 915 Commonwealth Ave., Buick St. entrance; admission: $20 for BU and non-BU students, $25 for faculty, staff, and the general public.
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Alternative Spring Breaks
Each year, Boston University’s Community Service Center sends hundreds of students into disaster zones and troubled communities across the country. The Alternative Spring Breaks program, founded in 1987, gives students the opportunity to spend their vacation working in a community in need, an experience that often starts with a 24-plus hour van ride to the destination.
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Alternative Spring Breaks: Detroit
Volunteering with homeless LGBTQ youth and at-risk girls
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Alternative Spring Breaks: Orland, Maine
Building a community at H.O.M.E.
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Alternative Spring Breaks: Killeen, Texas
Helping children with special needs
In Your Words
“Best of luck ladies! ”
Women’s Ice Hockey Terriers Head to NCAAs
2“Great season! Last night was heartbreaking, but I'm proud of you guys! ”
Men’s B-ball Terriers Fall in Patriot League Final
2“What we need to be doing is having an international response to Fukushima. This is a drawn out, catastrophic nuclear …”
POV: Obama’s Asian Pivot in Peril?
2“Inspiring story that needs to be shared with the all young men. Congrats to the Tricaptains from my home …”
Terrier B-ball Tricaptains: All from Philadelphia, All Determined to Win
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