BU Today

Wednesday, March 15th

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Light snow cover on the Boston University Medical Campus

Full Professorships to 14 on Medical Campus

Faculty cited for contributions to science, medicine, public health

Robert Pinsky speaks at the Alumni College of Arts and Society's FFP

Robert Pinsky Up For National Book Critics Circle Award

BU prof’s At the Foundling Hospital: Poems explores issues of loss, identity

Cast portrait of Tyron Mitchell Henderson and Matthew J. Harris who star as brothers Lincoln and Booth in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer-winning Topdog/Underdog

Huntington Presents Pulitzer Winner Topdog/Underdog

Explores what it means to be an African American man

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student walking in snow on Comm Ave

Take heart, denizens of New England—in five short (OK, maybe not so short) days spring will arrive, and it will no longer be necessary to visit a florist to be surrounded by flowers. Photo by Alexandra Wimley (COM'17)

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Tyler Perrachione, Assistant Professor at Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, juggles cards with nonwords used in his dyslexic brain research

Mind Reader

An estimated 5 to 17 percent of schoolchildren have dyslexia: difficulty reading single words. Research into phonological working memory—the ability to hold speech sounds in mind—by Sargent College’s Tyler Perrachione is shedding new light on what makes dyslexic brains different. It could lead to more effective interventions.

Upcoming Events
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SPH Dean’s Seminar: Ending AIDS: The Politics of Possibility

When:
March 15 at 4:00 pm
Where:
College of Communication, Room 209, 640 Commonwealth Ave.

Linda Heywood Discussion and Book Signing

When:
March 15 at 5:00 pm
Where:
BU Hillel House, The Castle Room, 4th Floor, 213 Bay State Rd.

Old Hollywood

When:
March 15 at 6:00 pm
Where:
Mugar Memorial Library, HGARC Reading Room, 5th Floor, 771 Commonwealth Ave.

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Series Spotlight
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Office Artifacts

BU Today highlights interesting artifacts professors display in their office.

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Ahmad "Mo" Khalil, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

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