Construction visionary Richard Towle to depart BU, having reshaped campuses
By Jessica Ullian
When Richard Towle arrived at Boston University 25 years ago, he thought he would stay for “a couple of years.”
Former Botswana leader Sir Ketumile Masire new African President-in-Residence
By David J. Craig
A key steward of Botswana’s makeover, Sir Ketumile Masire, who led the country from 1980 to 1998, will be working and studying in the United States until November as BU’s new Balfour African President-in-Residence.
Boston's Jewish community concludes spiritual odyssey of Daf Yomir at Morse
By Brian Fitzgerald
For Rabbi Joseph Polak, Boston University was an apt setting for a large ceremony to mark the end of the seven-and-a-half-year process of reading the Talmud under the Daf Yomi study program.
BU names Agganis Arena hockey rink after Jack Parker
By Brian Fitzgerald
In a ceremony prior to BU’s final home game of the season March 3, Chobanian announced the naming of the Jack Parker Rink and presented Parker with a plaque that reads “in recognition of the highest standards of excellence that you have personally achieved and have introduced to students, alumni, and fans.”
Math and stats prof D'Agostino leads dissent at FDA panel hearings on painkillers
By Noah Shaffer
Food and Drug Administration panel hearings typically don’t make for exciting television. But last month millions of arthritis patients tuned in nervously to news coverage of an expert committee’s three-day scrutiny of painkilling drugs.
ARTS
Boston Expressionist David Aronson: a painter between worlds
By Jessica Ullian
David Aronson: A Retrospective, an exhibition currently at the Boston University Art Gallery through April 3, explores the changing interests and ideas of Aronson, who at 81 remains one of Boston’s best-known modern Expressionist painters and a key figure in the development of CFA’s school of visual arts.
Corrections
An article in the February 25 B.U. Bridge about Professor James McCann’s research imprecisely referred to Amharic, a popular language in Ethiopia, as the national language. In fact, according to Ethiopia’s constitution, it is “the working language of the Federal government,” while all Ethiopian languages “enjoy equal state recognition.”
In the same issue, the name of surgery patient David Richards was mispelled in an article about a revolutionary heart procedure.
The B.U. Bridge regrets the errors. |
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