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University News

YouSpeak: Raising the Legal Smoking Age to 21

November 9, 2015

Varsity Sports

Big Weekend for Women’s Soccer and Field Hockey

November 6, 2015

Spotlight

Film & TV

Special Spotlight Screened for BU Audience

November 6, 2015

Boston University Television Ad

Arts & Culture

BU Airs New Ads on TV, Online

November 6, 2015

Emma Zampino (CAS ’16), left, Irene Hsueh (CAS ’16) and Kim Kaelin (CAS ’16), right, sit on Marsh Plaza to observe people for a experimental psychology class assignment. Zampino keeps count of the total number of people walking by the plaza. Hsueh and Kaelin use their trackers to record how many of those people are texting or actively using their cellphones while walking.

Experimental Psychology

November 6, 2015

Creating a demonic teddy bear were, clockwise from upper left, Nicholas Maresco, Doug Roeper, Brian Tan, and Pablo Velarde. Photo by Kristyn Ulanday

Science & Technology

BU Hackathon Draws 500

November 5, 2015

Evangeline Tsai (SAR'19) hits the laptop for a Japanese course in the Metcalf Science Center plaza. Photo by Cydney Scott

Working Outdoors

November 5, 2015

Across the street from the Coolidge Corner T stop, Lee’s Burgers offers a large selection of fries, burgers for meat-lovers and vegetarians as well as salads and an extensive list of smoothies. Located at 1331 Beacon St in Brookline, the venue opened in 2014, about five years after Lee’s Burgers opened for business in Newton Centre.

Food

Lunch, Anyone? Lee’s Burgers

November 5, 2015

BU sailing team practicing on the Charles River

Sailing into Fall

November 4, 2015

Mary Bourque, Superintendent of Schools, Chelsea, Massachusetts

Jobs

Jump-start Your Job Search: Chelsea, Mass., School Superintendent

November 4, 2015

Paul Farmer, a globally renowned advocate of medical care for the poor, assesses global health in a BU lecture today.

Global Health

Paul Farmer, Doctor to the Poor, Speaks Today at BU

November 4, 2015

Yifan Xu, the University’s first Lu Lingzi Scholar, was moved by the effort to memorialize the BU student killed in the Boston Marathon bombings. Photo by Cydney Scott

University News

First Lu Lingzi Scholar Studying Economics

November 4, 2015

Almost every box, bucket, and bag of food that ends up in the GSU kitchen passes through the capable hands of Lee Morris. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

In the City

Special Deliveries

November 3, 2015

At an Archaeology Society meeting, Audrey Tjahjadi (CAS'17), at right, tries on some period clothes during a presentation being made by Jade Luiz (GRS'17), left, and Ilaria Patania (GRS'16), not pictured, about Victorian-era clothing October 28, 2015. At center is Samantha Kelley (CAS'19). Photo by Cydney Scott

Archaeology Society Dress-Up

November 3, 2015

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson

Film & TV

Native North Korean Filmmaker Gives Lowell Lecture

November 3, 2015

Voices & Opinion

POV: Lessons from Volkwagen’s Emissions Cover-up

November 3, 2015

Devon Latrell, Boston University Terriers men's track and field javelin throw

BU Athletics

Athletes in Motion: Javelin Throw

November 2, 2015

David Oluwadara, Boston University Terriers men's track and field triple jump

Varsity Sports

Athletes in Motion: Triple Jump

November 2, 2015

Yu Phyllis Tang, Boston University Terriers women's golf

Sports

Athletes in Motion: Golf

November 2, 2015

Blue Nile

Event Preview

University Lecture Plumbs the “Soul” of the Blue Nile

November 2, 2015

University Lecture Plumbs the “Soul” of the Blue Nile