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Thursday, October 17

  • 12:00 PM
    Requesting & Composing Recommendation Letters
    During your PhD, you will encounter situations where you are either requesting recommendation letters from potential recommenders or being approached by your own students, colleagues, and others seeking your recommendation. This virtual workshop serves a dual purpose: it offers guidance on the proper way to request recommendation letters for PhD students/candidates and also provides them…
  • 12:30 PM
    Jen & Alon Olyer-Yaniv - Quantitative Biology Seminar Series
    Speaker: Jen and Alon Olyer-Yaniv, Principle Investigators, Oyler-Yaniv Lab, Harvard University. The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) and the BU Bioinformatics Program are excited to announce the launch of the Quantitative Biology Seminar Series, an intersectional seminar series with a pedagogical flavor intended to foster connections between communities – including computationalists, quantitative experimentalists,…
  • 1:00 PM
    Instagram Insights: Exploring Strategy, Timing, and Creative Success for Researchers
    Curious about how Instagram can help you expand the reach of your research? Join Suzanne Whitby, founder of SciComm Success for a 90-minute workshop on how to effectively use Instagram’s visual platform to connect with new audiences and showcase your work. Unlike X (formerly Twitter), Instagram thrives on visual communication, offering a unique way to…
  • 3:00 PM
    Conversations with the Dean, How AI will Change Education
    Event Overview: AI applications are burgeoning, but it can be a polarizing subject for many, particularly among educators and teachers. Join a discussion moderated by Dean Penny Bishop about how BU Wheelock and Quincy Public Schools are working together to mitigate a reactive response and incorporate AI in the classroom in proactive and thoughtful ways.…

Monday, October 21

  • 12:00 PM
    Meet the American Parkinson Disease Foundation
    The American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) is a nationwide grassroots network dedicated to fighting Parkinson’s disease (PD) and works tirelessly to help the approximately one million with PD in the United States to live life to the fullest in the face of this chronic neurological disorder. Chief Mission Officer Rebecca Gilbert will join us to…
  • 4:00 PM
    The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
    Green electricity is key to curbing climate change, but while prices of solar and wind power have tumbled, the golden era of renewables has yet to materialize. What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable? In “The Price is Wrong: Why…

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