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		<title>BU at the Cannes Film Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby may have grabbed much of the attention at this year’s star-studded Cannes International Film Festival, which wraps up on Sunday. But the annual two-week event also features a roster of potential gems—features, short films, and documentaries from around the world. One of the festival’s lesser-known selections is Halfway Somewhere Else, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAS&#8217; Appavoo Nabs NSF CAREER Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Appavoo has long been fascinated by computers. “They somehow seemed to mimic and reflect our own abilities,” he says. As he studied them in greater depth, he realized “that while they are fascinating machines, their ‘human’ qualities are largely achieved by smoke and mirrors. That being said, their ability to be programmed to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/jonathan-appavoo-nsf-career-award/</link>
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		<title>$2.5 Million Gift Creates Maria Stata Professorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The culture of ancient Greece is alive and well and living conspicuously, for those who pay attention, in the sciences, arts, architecture, politics, and philosophy of our everyday world. Now, thanks to a gift from Maria Stata (CAS’62), that enduring influence will be even more greatly appreciated by students and scholars in the College of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/gift-creates-maria-stata-professorship/</link>
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		<title>Vanishing from an Archive Near You: History?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arrested in 2010 for a minuscule possession of pot, Connecticut nurse Lorraine Martin had her bust expunged from the court record after agreeing to drug classes. To her chagrin, however, she found employers rejecting her for jobs, for a reason she discovered after googling herself: archived news stories of her arrest, online for all to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commencement 2013: Before, During, and After</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch the setup, celebration, and breakdown of Boston University’s 140th Commencement in time-lapse.]]></description>
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		<title>SPH Convocation Speaker: Become &#8220;Dauntless Doers&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie Gerberding inhabits a world of long-winded conference calls and consensus-building meetings. “Ladies and gentlemen,” the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been known to interject, “people are dying. Let’s step up. Let’s get the decision made. Let’s move on.” But in offering advice to School of Public Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/sph-convocation-speaker-become-dauntless-doers/</link>
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		<title>Chinese Students Adjust to American Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lili Gu recalls his initial trepidation at the flood of white faces in his Massachusetts high school when he came to America for 10th grade. There was the hulking football player who noticed that Gu was lost one day and said—here, Gu speaks in a guttural half-grunt—“‘Hey, you want to go to the gym?’ And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/chinese-students-adjust-to-american-education/</link>
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		<title>BU Joins Leading Online Course Platform edX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BU has joined edX, the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform that shares the University’s commitment to using technology’s benefits for students on campus as well as off. The partnership will give BU professors more flexibility in designing their courses and discerning which educational methods work best with students. Membership obligates BU to offer five MOOCs (massive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/bu-joins-leading-online-course-platform-edx/</link>
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		<title>“Find That Next Bill Cosby”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People outside Walter Brown Arena must have heard the roar of the crowd inside Saturday morning when Bill Cosby told the 2013 School of Education graduates, “Don’t you dare accept that you’re teachers because you can’t do anything else.” Sporting a tasseled Terrier baseball cap and wriggling out of his academic robe to reveal a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/find-that-next-bill-cosby/</link>
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		<title>The Sights and Sounds of Commencement 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the tents come down and the chairs are folded, the sights and sound of Commencement 2013 live on as part of BU’s long-standing Commencement tradition. These are some of the best moments from Sunday’s ceremony.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2013/the-sights-and-sounds-of-commencement-2013/</link>
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