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Boston University BU, first annual Rhett Talks, TED talks format at BU

University News

Rhett Talks Series Begins Tonight

September 9, 2013

Boston University BU, Council on Educational Technology and Learning Innovation CETLI, edX online learning platform, digital learning initiative DGI, massive open online courses MOOCs, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

Strategy & Innovation

New Team Will Power BU’s Online Education

July 16, 2013

Boston University BU, SMG Dean Kenneth Freeman, JetBlue president CEO David Barger, advice to students, career paths, leadership,

Business

JetBlue CEO Talks Airlines, Aspirations

April 10, 2013

Boston University BU alumnus Jack Falla, sports business lecture

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The Fine Points of Sports Marketing

March 5, 2013

Boston University BU, breastfeeding health and economic benefits, sexualization breastfeeding

Wellness

Why Media Depiction of Breasts Gets Failing Grade

February 21, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

University News

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

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Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years

February 6, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Law LAW, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, inaugural James N. Esdaile Lecturer

Schools and Colleges

Supreme Court Justice Gives LAW’s First Esdaile Lecture

January 25, 2013

Actor Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker, Boston University Martin Luther King Day MLK lecture

Film & TV

Forest Whitaker Honored as BU MLK Fellow

January 23, 2013

Jacques Pépin, culinary arts, Essential Pépin, Complete Techniques

Arts & Culture

Renowned Chef Jacques Pépin to Speak Tonight

December 5, 2012

Boston University BU, Memorials and Memory class, College of Arts & Sciences professor of archaeology Andrea Berlin

Academics

294 Steps to Class

October 25, 2012

Boston University BU, Marcia Angell, physician assisted suicide, Massachusetts Ballot, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School

Health & Medicine

Physician-Assisted Suicide on the Massachusetts Ballot

October 15, 2012

Three Encounters with Elie Wiesel The Fascination with Jewish Tales annual lecture series, Boston University Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, author

Literature

Annual Elie Wiesel Lecture Series Begins Tonight

October 15, 2012

Sylvia Nasar's new book details how economists developed anti-poverty strategies.

Science & Technology

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit

September 25, 2012

2012 William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health, Noreen Clark, Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan, chronic pain management

lectures

Pain, Percocet, and the Public’s Health

September 20, 2012

Donald Gillis, Boston University BU College of Arts and Sciences CAS, sociology and Boston's people

University News

One Class, One Day: Boston’s People

August 3, 2012

William J. Bicknell, Boston University School of Public Health SPH

Public Health

Looking Back on a Career in Public Health

May 2, 2012

author and journalist Pete Hamill

Culture

Journalist Pete Hamill to Speak at BU

April 18, 2012

Boston University Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering Inaugural Symposium

University News

Hariri Institute Holds Inaugural Symposium

April 17, 2012

Boston University Lowell Lecture, Jorie Graham, Patrick Ryan Frank

Arts & Culture

A Touch of the Poet(s) Tonight

April 4, 2012

A Touch of the Poet(s) Tonight