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Global

Global Days of Service

University News

Donate Your Time and Skills

April 3, 2015

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Global

Defeating Communism Didn’t Necessarily Defeat Its Deprivations

March 13, 2015

Jerrold Ellner, Boston Medical Center, Boston University

Global

Making TB the Next Polio

February 9, 2015

Public Health

POV: The Public Health Consequences of Hate

January 27, 2015

Cuba

Science & Technology

Cuba Gets a New Normal

January 26, 2015

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Israeli retired admiral former head of Israel internal security agency Amichay Ayalon, Visiting Professor Nahum Karlinsky, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies

Global

From Retired Israeli Commander, a Call for a Two-State Solution

November 13, 2014

Kaymakçı Citadel, Turkey, Christopher Roosevelt, Christina Luke, photogrammetry

Science & Technology

Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel

November 9, 2014

emily peschel, viking archaeology, viking teeth, forensic anthropology

Humanities

Vikings: Menacing Marauders or Homebodies?

November 9, 2014

william saturno, benjamin vining, archaeology research, peru, remote sensing

Earth

Seeing beneath the Sugarcane

November 9, 2014

Michael Danti, iraq archaeology, boston university college of arts and sciences

Research

Digging in the Shadow of Death

November 9, 2014

Campus events include food tastings, film screenings, and student artwork

Global

BU Celebrates International Education Week

November 7, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Kira Sullivan Wiley, Moorman-Simon Civic Fellowship, research, environmental disasters, Uganda

Earth

Preventing Landslides in Uganda

October 29, 2014

Boston University BU, Opinion Editorial OpEd, Point of View POV, child immigration legal representation, US immigration reform

Immigration

POV: Who Speaks For Immigrant Children?

October 15, 2014

Susan Silverman, Yosef Abramowitz

Global

Civil Disobedience, a Love Story

October 9, 2014

Boston University BU, Initiative on Cities IoC, Mayor Thomas Menino student fellow, Hannah Carey, Chelsea Desrochers, Cortney Tunis

Public Health

Learning What Makes Local Governments Tick, Here and Abroad

October 2, 2014

Point of View, POV, ISIS, Islamic State, ISIL, terrorism, Middle East, journalist beheadings, international relations, politics, hostages, ransom

Global

POV: To Pay or Not Pay Terrorist Hostage Takers

September 24, 2014

Boston University BU, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, international relations, Interdisciplinary approach

University News

New Pardee School of Global Studies: Custodian of Old and Cherished Traditions

September 23, 2014

Boston University BU, Andrew Bacevich, Middle East, Massive Open Online Courses MOOC, edX, BUx

History

MOOC Probes a War You’ve Never Heard Of

September 23, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Management SMG, business leaders academics global jam

University News

SMG Spearheads Global Online “Jam”

September 17, 2014

Boston University BU, opinion editorial op ed, Syrian Refugee Camp, humanitarian emergency middle east

Law

POV: World Can’t Wait to Address Mideast Refugees

September 15, 2014

POV: World Can’t Wait to Address Mideast Refugees