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		<title>Detecting the Perfect Solar Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 1, 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington was sketching sunspots through a telescope when he saw a bright, oval-shaped light expanding outward from the sun. About 18 hours later, brilliant auroras colored the night sky as far south as the Caribbean, and Earth’s fledgling telegraph systems went berserk: wires melted, sparks from the wires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Guggenheims Will Fuel Humanities Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two College of Arts &#38; Sciences professors specializing in the humanities are taking a temporary break from campus, with help from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim fellowships, often characterized as midcareer awards, are grants of 6 to 12 months given to scholars who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LGBT Seniors, Invisible No More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, according to the U.S. Administration on Aging, about one in eight Americans was over age 65. That adds up to 39.6 million people, or almost 13 percent of the U.S population. By 2030, there will be about 72.1 million in that age group, or about 19 percent of the population. While many studies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/lgbt-seniors-invisible-no-more/</link>
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		<title>Commencement: Now You See It…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, the numbers: 25,000 guests attended 200 events, where they drank 10,000 gallons of coffee, punch, and bottled water and 5,900 gallons of other refreshments. There were 33,495 finger sandwiches (if stacked end-to-end, they’d have reached 8,373 feet into the sky and been 46 times higher than Warren Towers), 11,500 French pastries (with 4,593,000 calories), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/commencement-now-you-see-it-now-you-dont/</link>
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		<title>Jim Collins Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Collins thought at first that the FedEx envelope from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was another request for a grant review. It wasn’t. “When I opened the envelope, I read the letter saying that I was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,” Collins says. “I was thrilled.” Collins, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/jim-collins-elected-to-the-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/</link>
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		<title>Machine Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should the three Rs be four Rs, as in reading, ’riting, ’rithmetic, and ’rogramming? That’s the argument made by Carnegie Mellon computer scientist Jeannette Wing and increasingly by academics from a broad spectrum of disciplines. They insist American education is shorting students, even those who’ll be poets and philosophers, by failing to equip them with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/computational-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Elliot Norton Award to Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To anyone who has a connection to theater in Boston, Kate Snodgrass has been overdue for a vigorous citywide standing ovation. Longtime fans of the passionate teacher, playwright, and director were joined this month by the Boston Theater Critics Association, which has awarded Snodgrass (GRS’90), artistic director of BU’s Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, its 2012 Elliot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/norton-award-honors-boston-playwrights%e2%80%99-theatre-director/</link>
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		<title>School of Social Work among Nation’s 20 Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The School of Social Work is the 16th best graduate program in its field nationally, U.S. News &#38; World Report declares in its most recent rankings. The last such survey, in 2008, placed SSW at number 22. This year’s rankings compare 206 graduate schools of social work and “are based solely on the results of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/school-of-social-work-among-nations-20-best/</link>
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		<title>Trustee Chair Robert Knox Endows Professorship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, 10 million children five or younger die in the developing world from preventable causes. That figure comes from investment banker Robert Knox, whose career might lead you to think he wouldn’t carry such a grim statistic in his head. But Cornerstone Equity Investors, the firm BU Trustee Chairman Knox (CAS’74, GSM’75) helped found, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/trustee-chair-robert-knox-endows-professorship/</link>
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		<title>Leonard Nimoy Urges CFA Grads to &#8220;Live Long and Prosper&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Nimoy (Hon.’12), the actor best known as Mr. Spock in the television series Star Trek, beamed onto campus on Saturday to deliver the College of Fine Arts convocation address. Following an introduction from CFA Dean Benjamin Juarez, who noted Nimoy’s contributions as an “actor, photographer, director, poet, and philanthropist,” the performer approached the podium [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/leonard-nimoy-urges-cfa-grads-to-live-long-and-prosper/</link>
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