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On September 21, students from across BU packed into the Academic Writing for Professionals workshop. Led by Adjunct Professor William Koehler, this is the first installment of the #BUCPUA 2016 Fall Student Learning Enrichment Series. For more than 90 minutes, students absorbed free, critical instruction to enhance their professional and academic writing skills. “You will […]
Student Eleanor Reagan (CAS ’18) contemplated throwing a Panera soup cup into three containers labeled compostable, recyclable or landfill. She eventually decided to throw the cup into the compostable section. Unfortunately this was the wrong choice – Panera cups have wax and go to landfill – and she lost the game. The #BUCPUA Sustainability Planning […]
Anticipation and nervous excitement filled the crowded room at BUCPUA’s Fall 2016 Student Orientation. New students began the evening as strangers but ended as strong acquaintances and friends, all eager to jumpstart their academic programs and ultimately fulfill lofty aspirations in city planning and urban affairs. On September 7th, a record-setting 31 new students were […]
On August 26, #BUCPUA students and friends carpooled to Pemberton Point in Hull, Massachusetts, where they were granted special permission to crawl around inside Hull Wind 1, a wind turbine generator that reaches 164 feet high. Led by Andrew Stern, president of New England Wind Power, the group learned about the wind turbine’s construction, how […]
On June 23, Stacey King, a transportation demand manager at Boston University, visited BU City Planning and Urban Affairs (BUCPUA) students in Doug Johnson’s UA 510 Course, Transit-Oriented Development in the 21st Century. King presented the fundamentals of building and implementing transportation demand management (TDM) programs, including behavior change strategies, incentives, and marketing. “Hearing from […]