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Tuesday, July 28

  • 12:00 PM
    World Head & Neck Cancer Day Lunch & Learn (Hybrid)
    Please join us for a Lunch & Learn for World Head & Neck Cancer Day! A clinical perspective will be presented by Laurel Henderson, DDS, MS, as well as research and patient/survivor perspectives from Maria A. Kukuruzinska, PhD, and Thomas Healy, respectively. Lunch will be provided, and a virtual attendance option is available.

Wednesday, July 29

  • 11:00 AM
    [ISSO] Town Hall: New USDHS Rules For International Students & Scholars
    USDHS published new rules that will restrict academic program changes and set fixed expiration dates for international students and scholars by eliminating duration of status (D/S) effective September 15, 2026. Join the ISSO, Office of General Counsel, Federal Relations and a Boston-based immigration attorney for a virtual town hall to learn more. This session will…
  • 1:00 PM
    ECE Seminar: João Fernandes
    ECE Seminar: João Fernandes Zoom Link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/97857949765?pwd=eNvO4WJHhQyaZhNr7oNWrUKO8mxpAz.1&from=addon Meeting ID: 978 5794 9765 Passcode: 087712 Title: Designing with Responsibility: GRASP Patterns in Software Engineering Abstract: Every software system begins with a shared understanding of its problem domain: the key concepts, and how they relate. That understanding is rarely controversial. Yet the moment we move from understanding…
  • Public Health Conversation: The Future of Public Health Teaching
    This event is part of our SPH50 programming, in celebration of 50 years of public health research, education, and practice at BUSPH. For this program, we have invited a select group of innovative leaders in academic public health to reflect on the current state of public health teaching and envision how it could look over…

Thursday, July 30

  • 12:00 PM
    [ERC, GPS] genAI + Research
    Generative AI can be a powerful assistant to your research when used conscientiously and effectively. In this workshop, we’ll discuss practical ways to make the best use of AI without compromising academic integrity or your intellectual value. Hosted by the Educational Resource Center.

Friday, July 31

  • 11:00 AM
    MechE Seminar Series: Tapomoy Bhattacharjee
    Speaker: Dr. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee Title: Physical regulation of cellular growth by 3D confinement Abstract: The natural habitats of most microbes are complex 3D environments with spatiotemporally dynamic material properties which exerts a physical constraint on fundamental biological processes such as growth. However, our current knowledge of cellular biology largely derives from experiments performed using either…

Tuesday, August 18

  • 12:00 PM
    Info Session: Convergent Research Funding Opportunities
    The Office of Research is pleased to offer two funding opportunities designed to accelerate convergent research at Boston University. To introduce these opportunities, we will host two online Zoom information sessions. Each session will provide an overview of the convergent research seed and planning grant opportunities, including eligibility, submission timelines and requirements, the selection process,…
  • 1:00 PM
    [ISSO] Town Hall: New USDHS Rules For International Students & Scholars
    USDHS published new rules that will restrict academic program changes and set fixed expiration dates for international students and scholars by eliminating duration of status (D/S) effective September 15, 2026. Join the ISSO, Office of General Counsel, Federal Relations and a Boston-based immigration attorney for a virtual town hall to learn more. This session will…

Wednesday, August 19

Thursday, August 20

  • 4:00 PM
    [Scismic] Turning Research into IP
    The first of a series of events on how scientists/engineers can use their own research to unlock commercial opportunities for themselves. In a climate where funding and job opportunities feel harder to predict, this fireside chat with Dr. Andrew Mathis, Patent Associate at Wolf Greenfield, will explore the opportunities already sitting in your own work,…

Monday, August 24

  • 2:00 PM
    Preparing for the Fall: Developing AI Policies and Assessing Current Materials
    Join the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning for a two-hour session discussing strategies and techniques to address AI policies and examine teaching materials in preparation for the Fall 2026 semester. This event is open to all BU faculty members. Faculty are invited to join us the entire time or drop into sessions as…

Tuesday, August 25

  • 10:00 AM
    ECE Seminar: Seou Choi
    ECE Seminar: Seou Choi Title: Toward Self-Driving Optics Laboratories with Robotics Abstract: Robots now run synthesis in chemistry labs and assays in biology labs. Optics, though one of the most foundational experimental domains, has been left behind. In the lab, optical systems still depend almost entirely on manual assembly and alignment — largely because optical…

Tuesday, September 1

  • 1:00 PM
    Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Professor Emerita Liah Greenfeld
    Memorial Lecture and Community Remembrance. Zoom option available; registration required for both in-person and virtual attendance. Liah Greenfeld was one of the most original thinkers of our time. Best known for her work on nationalism, she has continually expanded the range of her scholarship—from minds to nations to civilizations—until she formalized her subject as The…

Wednesday, September 2

  • 2:00 PM
    In the Shadow of Survival: Autocrats, Democrats, and Two-Level Games in Asia
    As elsewhere, countries in Asia have experienced increasingly polarized domestic politics alongside growing geopolitical tensions. How do Asian states—authoritarian and democratic, large and small—respond to these two power plays simultaneously? Do these dynamics intensify security flashpoints in the region, or can they help mitigate them? Join us for answers to these questions and more as…

Thursday, September 3

  • 12:00 PM
    Info Session: Convergent Research Funding Opportunities
    The Office of Research is pleased to offer two funding opportunities designed to accelerate convergent research at Boston University. To introduce these opportunities, we will host two online Zoom information sessions. Each session will provide an overview of the convergent research seed and planning grant opportunities, including eligibility, submission timelines and requirements, the selection process,…
  • 12:30 PM
    Power Over Progress: How Politics Shape Development Finance in Africa
    Join us for a book talk featuring Keyi Tang, Asst. Professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, on development finance in Africa How does Chinese overseas development finance compare with World Bank and OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) bilateral finance once money reaches the ground? The GDP Center is excited to host author…

Friday, September 4

  • 12:00 PM
    Annual Sue Kim Hanson Memorial Lecture: Sarah Gaffen, PhD (Hybrid)
    "At the Crossroads of IL-17 Signaling in Autoimmunity, Inflammation and Host Defense" Sarah Gaffen, PhD, Gerald P. Rodnan Professor, division of rheumatology and clinical immunology, director, basic rheumatology research, PMI graduate faculty, University of Pittsburgh
  • 3:00 PM
    CISE Seminar: Mengye Ren, New York University
    The Always-Learning Machine Today’s AI models acquire most of their knowledge through offline, Independent and Identically Distributed (IID) learning. In-context learning offers some capacity for online adaptation, but a crucial question remains: can models keep learning at deployment, or even learn from scratch, through continuous streams of experience? In this talk, Mengye will present several…

Tuesday, September 8

  • 10:00 AM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Python, Part One (Hands-on)
    This is an introduction to the essential features of Python. This first part of the tutorial includes an introduction to basic types, if-statements, functions, lists, dictionaries, loops, and modules. The tutorial includes the use of a popular Python development environment and covers setting up Python on your own computer in addition to using Python on…
  • 12:00 PM
    GSI Seminar with Dr. Geoff Ginsburg NIH All-Of-Us CSO
    GSI will be hosting a seminar and day visit On Tuesday Sept. 8 2026 with Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD/PhD BUSM 1984. Dr. Ginsburg is a distinguished alumni and Chief Scientific Officer of the NIH All-Of-Us human genetics initiative that touches both the clinic and research laboratory.

Wednesday, September 9

  • 9:00 AM
    BU Musculoskeletal Health (MHet) ARC September Invited Lecture: René St-Arnaud, PhD (Virtual)
    "A Precision Medicine Approach for Treatment of Low Bone Mass in Klinefelter Syndrome" René St-Arnaud, PhD, professor, pediatric musculoskeletal research, McGill University Zoom information is available at the URL provided. All are welcome; trainees are encouraged to attend.
  • 12:00 PM
    Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Bahaa Saleh
    Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Bahaa Saleh Speaker: Bahaa Saleh, Ph.D. UCF Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Optics & Photonics CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida former BU ECE Dept. Chair Title: From Classical to Quantum Optics and Back: A Tale of the Bimode and the Qubit Abstract: This tutorial explores the…
  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to Linux (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will give attendees a hands-on introduction to Linux. Topics covered will include a short history of Linux, logging in with ssh, the Bash shell and shell scripts, I/O redirection (pipes), file system navigation, and job control. Time permitting, attendees will edit, compile, and run a simple C program.
  • 4:00 PM
    The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective
    Please join us as we celebrate the release of The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective by our colleague Vivien A. Schmidt, Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the Pardee School and Founding Director of BU's Center for the Study of Europe. In this masterful book, [Prof. Schmidt] provides a…

Thursday, September 10

  • 1:00 PM
    IS&T RCS Tutorial - Introduction to BU's Shared Computing Cluster (Hands-on)
    This tutorial will introduce Boston University's Shared Computing Cluster (SCC) in Holyoke, MA. This Linux cluster has more than 28000 processors and over 14 petabytes of storage available for Research Computing by students and faculty on the Charles River and BUMC campuses. A very large number of software packages for programming, mathematics, data analysis, plotting,…

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