Category: alumni

Core to see Pride & Prejudice on stage

March 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

On March 20th, the second-year Core Humanities students will hear a lecture on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the novelist Allegra Goodman.  Dr. Goodman’s most recent book The Cookbook Collector has been described as a “Sense and Sensibility for the digital age.” We are fortunate that a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice is […]

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Bonobos Establishing Social Status

March 6, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Fabiana Cabral (Core ‘08, CAS ‘10), a member of the EnCore steering committee, writes: Students of Core versed in the second semester of the Natural Sciences will no doubt remember the sharp comparisons in CC106 between the aggressive behavior of chimpanzees and the frisky alternative attitudes of their gentle bonobo cousins. The WEEK Magazine reports […]

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Book-Based Libations

March 2, 2012 at 10:58 am

Fabiana Cabral (Core ‘08, CAS ‘10), a member of the EnCore steering committee, writes: Attending an EnCore Book Club meeting is a great way to witness how well-placed adult beverages can truly stoke the creative fires of literary debate. While we all come for the books and good talk (not to mention free Chinese food […]

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Tonight: Theater of War pre-show talk, after-show reception

December 7, 2011 at 1:21 pm

From Erin McDonagh (Core ’08, CAS ’10), member of the EnCore Steering Committee: As Core alums, we all know that no one understood war or tragedy like the ancient Greeks. In Theater of War, actors read excerpts from Sophocles’ tragedies Ajax and Philoctetes, with the aim of drawing attention to the challenges faced by veterans […]

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How to prosper in Core, part two

September 12, 2011 at 4:42 pm

More advice from Core alumni reaching out through the Core Facebook Wall and the EnCore online community to support first-year students in their first fall in Core. See the first batch here. Jennifer Formichelli, Core lecturer:: Read all the books in a quiet place in a nice chair with your cell phone and computer off. […]

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How to Prosper in Core: advice from alumni to the 1st-years

September 9, 2011 at 4:05 pm

This week, the Core asked Core alumni on Facebook whether they had advice for incoming students about how to succeed in the Core. Their advice — by turns sagacious, solemn, and uplifting — came in a veritable torrent of goodwill. Here is the first batch of responses, from the Core Facebook profile and the Wall […]

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EnCore Boston Book Club in August

July 8, 2011 at 12:38 pm

Join EnCore for the August gathering of our Boston book group. We will be discussing the collected letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo. As always, refreshments will be served. RSVP at the EnCore event page. The Van Gogh Gallery website describes all the collections of Van Gogh’s letters here. A good and […]

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New EnCore committee members

April 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm

The Core blog would like to welcome Karaugh Brown (CAS’01, GRS’10) and Fabiana Cabral (CAS’10) to the steering committee of EnCore: The Core Alumni Association. This addition to the committee strengthens what was already a strong group of alumni leaders, who are all committed to serving the community of Core alumni.

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Photos from the Winterfest Reception

March 10, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Many former students folks stopped by the Core office for an EnCore reunion on February 26, during the annual Winterfest festival. In the photo above, Katherine Lochery (CAS ’11), Lindsey Gould (CAS ’10), and Prof. Alex Coverdill (CC105/106) catch up. EnCore steering committee member Joe Sacchi (CAS ’08) can be seen peeking out from behind […]

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Tonight: EnCore Book Club reads Hemingway

March 2, 2011 at 12:48 pm

A reminder to Boston-area alumni, that the EnCore Book Club will be convening this evening, Wednesday, March 2, at 6 PM in the BU Alumni Lounge at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, to discuss their reading of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. If you were unable to make the previous EnCore Book Club meetings, or […]

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