Category: Alumni

Category: Alumni

4/22/13: Prof. Frank Guenther is guest speaker at Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Science on Screen program

Coolidge Corner Theatre’s Science on Screen program is pleased to present Julian Schnabel’s 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly featuring an introduction by Frank Guenther, Boston University professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. Monday, April 22, 2013 7:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA Tickets are […]

4/2/13: BU Today, BU Class of 2017 a Select Group

Acceptance to Boston University became a little harder this year, especially in Sargent College. As said by dean of Sargent, Gloria Waters, “The quality of the admitted students is much higher, given that we were able to be so selective.” Read the rest of this entry

3/22/13: The Banner, Walking Against Cancer

How many students can say their spring break was spent preparing for a more than 39-mile walk to end cancer their first year at college? Boston University Sargent College freshman and West Boylston resident, Sara Menendez, held a bake sale  to begin her fundraising for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in May… Read the […]

3/22/13: BU Today, Depression, Anxiety Persistent Problems at Universities

Depression and anxiety remain serious problems affecting nearly a quarter of BU students. Associate clinical professor of Occupational Therapy and director of services at BU’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Dori Hutchinson, comments on the University’s investment in the well-being students, as efforts to identify and treat students struggling with mental health problems have increased… Read […]

3/20/13: American Heart Association, KickinKitchen.TV

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Paula Quatromoni was selected for an interview on the research she presented at an AHA Conference. Her multimedia nutrition education curriculum presentation is #3 under “New Science Presented.” Read the rest of this entry

3/25/13 Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Research Colloquium Series

Please join us for our Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Research Colloquium Series on Monday, March 25 featuring guest speaker Supraja Anand. She will deliver a lecture on understanding perceptual and motor deficits through speech acoustics. Monday, March 25, 2013 3:30 – 5:30pm SAR 220, 635 Commonwealth Avenue Refreshments will be served.

3/16/13: Patriot Ledger, WENDY MURPHY: Gabby Giffords teaches us all to speak

As Former Congresswomen, Gabby Giffords continues to speak out about gun violence, Jerome Kaplan, speech language pathologist and clinician at the BU Aphasia Resource Center, discusses how it is easy for “people who don’t understand aphasia to see someone who can’t get the words out and  assume they’re deaf or unintelligent”… Read the rest of […]