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Columnist,
commentator George Will to speak at 2003 Commencement
George
Will, columnist, television commentator, and author, will deliver the main
address at BU’s 130th Commencement exercises
on Sunday, May 18, at 11 a.m. at Nickerson Field. More than 20,000
people are expected
to attend.
Passionate
dedication to education the hallmark of Case, Melville, Trustee Scholars
By
Brian Fitzgerald
Since high school, Heather Hanson has wanted to pursue
a career helping children with disabilities. Although there is a
plethora of ways to do
this, an internship in London last year strongly reinforced the Melville
Scholar’s decision to study physical therapy.
Prado,
Storella, and Weldon receive Perkins Awards for University service
By David J. Craig
After a long day on the job as director of BU’s Office of Residence
Life, Jack Weldon leaves work in a manner of speaking only.
A singing
send-off at Senior Breakfast
By Tim Stoddard
Senior Breakfast has earned a reputation of showing a different side of the
University’s leaders, and this year proved no different.
Student
speaker savors BU’s educational feast
By
Tim Stoddard
If Commencement is, to many students, the icing on the cake, then John Degory
thinks of the four years leading up to his graduation on May 18 as a multicourse
Italian meal.
Little cove garners big award for CFA’s
John Walker
By Tim Stoddard
When John Walker began painting the tidal pool and mud flats in a cove near
his home in Seal Point, Maine, he was reluctant to show his work to friends
and colleagues.
Wall
Street Journal’s Karen
Elliott House to deliver Baccalaureate address
By David J. Craig
As a journalist covering international politics for the Wall Street Journal in the ’70s and ’80s, Karen Elliott House pursued a profoundly
simple goal: to tell the truth.
Margaret “Peg” Hanna
House, 60, died on April 28
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![Vartan Gregorian Photo by Kalman Zabarsky](photos/gregorian-sm.jpg)
Vartan
Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation and a BU trustee.
Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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![Biotech express: This year's 13 graduates of MED's CityLab Academy celebrate the completion of their certificate program and look ahead to careers in biotechnology: (top row, left to right) Nan Lz, Khadija Rhourida, Jean Eveillard, and Robert Hennessy; (middle row) Elisabeth Caldeira, Younge Harris, Arminda E. Marroquin, and Terick DuPont; (front row) Elisabeth Chiulli, Alisha Josey, Jennifer Deady, Jessi Robinson, and Nicole Teabo; at far right is Connie Phillips, a MED research assistant professor and director of CityLab Academy.](photos/citylab-sm.jpg)
Biotech
express: This year’s 13 graduates of MED’s CityLab
Academy celebrate the completion of their certificate program.
Photo by Vernon Doucette
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![Goodbye, BU -- hello, world: The 130th Commencement of Boston University takes place on Sunday, May 18, at 11 a.m., at Nickerson Field. Photo by Vernon Doucette](photos/commce-sm.jpg)
Goodbye,
BU — hello, world: The 130th Commencement of Boston University
takes place on Sunday, May 18,. Photo by Vernon Doucette
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![The BU women's basketball team made its first-ever trip to the NCAA tournament this spring and presented a signed ball from its opening round game, against UConn (which later won the championship), to Provost Dennis Berkey, a dedicated supporter of both the team and Head Coach Margaret McKeon, who enters her fifth season at the University this fall. From left are guard Katie Terhune (CAS'04), who was selected as BU's Female Athlete of the Year, forward Adrienne Norris (CAS'05), McKeon, Berkey, forward Marisa Mosley (CAS'04), and guard Katie Meinhart (SMG'06). Photo by Kalman Zabarsky](photos/ncaa-sm.jpg)
The
BU women’s basketball team made its first-ever trip to
the NCAA tournament this spring.
Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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