Public Relations Degree First Offered
Boston University is the first university to offer a college degree in public relations at its newly founded School of Public Relations. As related programs are added, this school changes names several times, becoming the College of Communication in 1984.
School of Nursing Opens
The School of Nursing is opened. To the regret of many proud graduates, because of declining enrollment and the increase in subsidized nursing programs at state colleges and universities, it closes in 1988.
ROTC Arrives on Campus
The US War Department invites the University to become a contracting agency under the Army Enlisted Reserve Corps Pre-Induction Training Program, also known as ROTC.
Wonder Woman Makes Her Debut
Elizabeth Holloway Marston (Class of 1918) is the inspiration for the character Wonder Woman, who makes her debut in All-Star Comics. Her husband, William Moulton Marston, creates the character, who triumphs with love instead of fists or firepower.
Photo courtesy and original Wonder Woman material courtesy of Moulton "Pete" Marston
Instructional Materials Center
The genesis of the Instructional Materials Center goes all the way back to the fall of 1929, when Abraham Krasker, then a science teacher at Boston Latin School, was hired to offer an SED course called "Visual Education" to science teachers to train them in how to use educational film, still pictures, film slides, and lantern slides (the current technologies of the time) in teaching and learning science.
SSW Created
The School of Social Work is created after the School of Religious Education and Social Service is split; the religious education division merges with the School of Theology. SSW had received provisional accreditation as a seperate school in 1939. Since its inception over ninety years ago, the School has valued differences among people as enriching the quality of life for all.
Charles River Campus Opens
The Charles River Campus is inaugurated as the cornerstone is laid for the Charles Hayden Memorial Building, which houses the College of Business Administration.
Aeronautical Engineering Established at Logan Airport
Captain Hilding Carlson and Lt. Arthur B. Metcalf are hired to start the Aeronautical Engineering Department, located at Logan Airport.
First Research Grant Awarded
The University receives its first research grant, $275 from the National Academy of Sciences to the School of Medicine.
First Female Judge Becomes a University Trustee
Alumna Emma Fall Schofield, Massachusetts’ first female judge, becomes a University Trustee. She is also the first female assistant district attorney and first female judge in New England.
Photo courtesy of Marsh, Daniel L. and Clark, William H. The Story of Massachusetts. New York, The American Historical Society, Inc. [1938]
