September 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm
BU Now will no longer be updated here; please update your bookmarks to: http://www.bu.edu/bunow/ The new edition of BU Now will focus on Boston University events coverage.
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April 1, 2011 at 10:35 am
As the new Major League Baseball season gets underway, Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social science at Boston University, talks about his new book, When the Red Sox Ruled: Baseball’s First Dynasty 1912 – 1918 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc.). The book, which highlights such iconic players as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, “Smokey” Joe Wood [...]
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Tagged Babe Ruth, Bill Carrigan, Boston Red Sox, Boston University, Harry Hooper, red sox, Smoky Joe Wood, Thomas Whalen, Tom Whalen, Tris Speaker, When the Red Sox Ruled
March 30, 2011 at 2:50 pm
If you’ve been following BU Now regularly, you might be wondering where all the posts featuring Boston University professors have gone. As a way to streamline our blogging efforts, BU Public Relations recently launched a sister blog to BU Now called Professor Voices that does just that. In our ongoing efforts to keep the news [...]
February 18, 2011 at 4:44 pm
CAS Professor of Biology and Director of our Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology Tom Kunz will be chatting live from the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Washington D.C. tomorrow at noon via Science magazine’s homepage, ScienceNOW. The chat will also stream live below. ScienceNOW chats occur daily and are [...]
January 20, 2011 at 11:17 am
BU’s New Ambassador to the Arts (via BU Today) //
January 17, 2011 at 7:58 am
Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker, is set to hand over files to WikiLeaks that show offshore bank accounts of high net worth individuals and corporations to evade tax payments. Law professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, offers the following comment: “Rudolf Elmer has demonstrated that the ‘shadow [...]
January 13, 2011 at 9:33 am
New School Lunch Guidelines: Hold the Fries, Please According to USDA Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, the school lunch program that serves more than 30 million children daily is likely to get healthier very soon. The USDA is proposing significant changes to improve the nutritional quality of the school meals that are served to America’s youth. [...]
January 11, 2011 at 9:27 am
Goldman Sachs has released a report which sets force changes in the way it will do business. Law professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, sees the changes as a positive move. “Goldman’s plan to take the creation of structured financial products out of the hands of traders and [...]
January 10, 2011 at 8:03 am
Enrique Silva, Assistant Professor and Faculty Coordinator in City Planning and Urban Affairs at MET, has visited Haiti four times since the earthquake that took place on January 12, 2010. Here are his thoughts: //
December 17, 2010 at 11:00 am
Boston University School of Law professor Daniel Berman, director of the Graduate Tax Program, offers his view on the future of tax reform after passage of the tax compromise bill. “This tax package is a temporary compromise that deserves its widespread condemnation. The only optimistic sign for tax policy is some new support for tax [...]
