Spring 2014
Deval Patrick Speaks at Commencement
Massachusetts governor, comedian Bill Cosby, and City Year cofounder among the day’s honorees By Rich Barlow and Amy Laskowski In the video above, Commencement speaker Deval Patrick advises BU’s 2014 graduates that life’s journey is often more important than getting the answers and that real human connection requires intimacy. Video by BU Productions. Photo by […]
Metcalf Cup and Prize Winner: Stormy Attaway
Teaching that always evolves, like technology By Rich Barlow Nature gave Stormy Attaway (GRS’84, ’88) an intellect capable of grasping complex concepts. She wrote a textbook about a sophisticated programming language called MATLAB used in research labs, and she has worked to develop online education through BU’s Digital Learning Initiative. Yet the College of Engineering […]
Meet Annika Mickos (Par ENG’14, CAS’17)
By Christy Olson Loring, Parents Program associate director I credit BU parent volunteer Annika Mickos for my Twitter account. She’s done it all, from hosting events in her own home to teaching me how to tweet, and she is always ready and willing to lend her aid, expertise, and—most importantly—advice as a BU parent. There […]
A Letter from the Dean of Students and the Chairman of the Parents Leadership Council
Dear Parents, We hope your student enjoyed the spring semester. It was an exciting one! We’ve hosted so many special guests on campus recently, and we wanted to share a few highlights with you. Actress Geena Davis (CFA’79, Hon.’99) was on campus to receive the Bette Davis Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive film […]
What’s Hot, What’s Not
By Markiesha Ollison (CGS’12, SMG’14) Instagram Video Vine Kendall Jenner Kim Kardashian The Voice American Idol Snapchat Picture Messaging House of Blues Brighton Music Hall COM Lawn BU Beach Pinterest Tumblr Tinder OkCupid House of Cards Breaking Bad Spinning Yoga Coconut Water Vitamin Water Blogging Status Updates Seaport District Back Bay Alex and Ani Charm […]
Did You Know?
BU’s India Club is the largest cultural group on campus By Taylor Toole In the video above, watch members of BU’s India Club rehearse and perform their annual fall show, which in 2013 was titled Rangeela. Photo by David Gordon. Video by Taylor Toole. When it was organized more than 30 years ago, the BU […]
Education at the Touch of a Screen
BU rethinks the classroom experience and offers it globally By Leslie Friday (COM’07) MOOCs (massive open online courses) have begun at BU, signaling the University’s official entrance into a new form of higher education that rethinks the current classroom model and offers it—free of charge—to a global audience. (And yes, parents can sign up for […]
Better Lives, Better World
Frederick S. Pardee Endows New Global Studies School By Rich Barlow Building on its growing international profile and the global scope of its programs for research and education, Boston University is launching a new school, to be named for its largest benefactor. The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, to be housed in the […]
Questions, Please
Thurman Center program for intellectual, curious students By Paula Sokolska (CAS’15, COM’15) Above photo: TeAndrea Jackson (CGS’15) (left) and Christian Cho, mediator and founder of Agora. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi Imagine that all men are gone. Fathers, brothers, uncles, boyfriends—gone. In the course of a night, every Y-chromosome-carrying human male has ceased to exist, vanished […]
Don’t Call Them Drones
BU student team builds unmanned aerial vehicles Story and video by Taylor Toole Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made headlines in December 2013 when he announced that the internet retailer plans to use drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), by 2015 to deliver packages within a 10-mile radius of its distribution centers. Tantalizing images of whirring […]