Matriculation Address to the Entering Class: Fall 2012
Welcome to Boston University! I hope your move-in went well. Your belongings are in your rooms, your parents will soon be saying their good-byes, and you are in the final stages of preparing for your first classes and the beginning of your first year at Boston University. Your university experience starts today as you sit […]
Research Universities, Technology Translation, and Entrepreneurship
Bio International Convention, Boston, Keynote Address Thank you for the kind introduction and for the opportunity to speak today about a topic that is very important to the economic health of the country and the important role of the American research university in it. When we speak about translational research we speak about the process […]
Claflin University Founders’ Day Convocation 141st Founders’ Day Address: Orangeburg, South Carolina
President Tisdale, distinguished guests, members of the faculty and student body, thank you for this honor and for welcoming me into your community. It is a privilege to come from Boston University to be here in Orangeburg and to attend the Founders’ Day ceremony of Claflin University. I am originally from Texas and by some […]
Management Conference Address
Thank you Peter [Fiedler], and thank you for organizing the management conference as an important component of our communications with the administrative leadership of the University. I appreciate the opportunity to speak for a few minutes this morning about some of the progress we are making at Boston University. I think it is important to […]
Town Meeting Remarks
Thank you for coming this morning. This is a two-campus Town Meeting; we here in the GSU are connected by video link with our colleagues on the Medical Campus in the Hiebert Lounge. Our goal this morning is to follow up on the email that was sent to all faculty and staff last Monday about […]
Address to Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Thank you, Nate [Nate Pusey], for that kind introduction. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be with you and to have the opportunity to speak to leaders of the Boston business community. I am impressed that so many of you have come to hear a university president speak. I would like to think that […]
Matriculation Address to the Entering Class: Fall 2008
Good morning Boston University class of 2012. It is a pleasure to welcome you to your University and also to welcome members of our faculty to the start of another academic year. Every year in late August the energy flows back into Boston University as our students fill our residences and prepare for the first […]
Management Conference: BUworks
It is wonderful to be with you this morning to talk about the progress and future of Boston University. Peter Fiedler and his colleagues have put together a very important agenda for the meeting and, because we do not meet often enough, the program is packed. I am very sensitive that I must help keep […]
Matriculation Address
Your Choices Good morning Boston University class of 2011. Welcome to your University and to the beginning of your college experience. Actually you have already overcome two of the most daunting hurdles. You moved into your residence and you got up on time this morning for your first University event. Congratulations! This morning you are […]
Inaugural Address
Remarks given by Dr. Robert A. Brown, President: Thank you. To Mayor Menino, State Treasurer Cahill, members of the Boston University Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, students, and guests, I stand before you humbled by your response, touched by your participation in today’s events, and grateful for the warm welcome that the entire Boston University […]