Boston University

Boston University School of Law is the law school affiliated with Boston University. It is the second-oldest law school in Massachusetts and one of... the first law schools in the country to admit students regardless of race or gender. It is also a member of the Association of American Law Schools and a charter member of the American Bar Association. Located in the heart of Boston University's campus on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, BU Law is housed in the tallest law school building in the United States and the tallest academic building on campus. The U.S. News and World Reports currently ranks the school 22nd. In 2010, BU Law was named one of the top 4 Public Service Law Schools in the country by National Jurist. The School offers public interest scholarships, public interest grants , pro bono programs in Boston and pro bono trips to areas in need over spring break. The School offers a Semester in Practice Program in which students spend a semester working in public interest organizations in Geneva, in government positions in Washington, D.C. or in the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta.
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Boston University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1848, the medical school holds the unique... distinction as the first institution in the world to formally educate female physicians. Originally known as the New England Female Medical College, it was subsequently renamed BUSM in 1873. It is notably also the first medical school in the United States to award an M.D. degree to an African-American man and African-American woman in 1864. As the only medical school located in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, BUSM and Boston Medical Center, its primary teaching hospital, operates the largest 24-hour Level I trauma center in New England, the largest network of regional community health centers, and possesses the most diverse patient base in New England. BUSM is also the home of the world-renowned Framingham Heart Study - from which all knowledge of cardiovascular disease risk factors were originally discovered.
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The Boston University School of Management is the business school at Boston University in Boston. Founded in 1913 as the College of Business... Administration, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs. The BU School of Management offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration , Master of Business Administration degree , a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Finance, a Master of Science in Investment Management, executive education programs, two Ph.D. programs. Both the undergraduate and graduate programs offer dual degree options with other schools and colleges at Boston University. The BU School of Management has some 250 full-time faculty and some 200 part-time faculty, teaching fellows, and active research assistants. The business school is housed in the Rafik B. Hariri Building, located at 595 Commonwealth Avenue. The building opened in October 1996 and contains over 40 classrooms, a 375-seat lecture hall, five computer labs, and the Frederick S. Pardee Management Library. The building offers wireless Internet access throughout as well as 4,000 wired dataports.
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Boston University School of Public Health is Boston University's graduate School of Public Health. It is located in the heart of Boston University's... Medical Campus in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Dean is Robert Meenan. BUSPH has more than 4,000 alumni, 150 full-time faculty, and students from over 40 countries., It is fully accredited by the Association of Schools of Public Health and is ranked 11th in Public Health Grad Schools by the US News & World Report. The school was established in 1976 as a program in BU's School of Medicine and became an official school of the University in 1979 with five programs. Boston University School of Public Health grants degrees in the following academic concentrations: Dual degree programs are also available with other schools at Boston University. The dual degree typically allows the student to finish both degrees in less time than if the degrees were attempted separately.
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Boston University School of Education is the school of education within Boston University. It is located on the University's Charles River Campus in... Boston, Massachusetts in the former Lahey Clinic building. The Dean of SED is Hardin Coleman. SED has more than 31,000 alumni, 107 full-time faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate students. Boston University School of Education was ranked 55th in the nation in 2011 by U.S. News and World Report in their rankings of graduate schools of education. The School of Education is a member institution of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education . Boston University School of Education was founded in 1918. Dr. Arthur H. Wilde, the first dean of the School, wrote, "Our policy has been to keep in as vital touch with the everyday work of the schools as we could—to know the needs of the teachers and of the school officers and to give immediate satisfaction to those needs, yet with a view to the broader education of these teachers and officers." SED houses the oldest continuously published journal in the field of education in the country, the Journal of Education.
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Boston University's College of Communication was founded in 1947 as the School of Public Relations. Today, the school offers undergraduate and... graduate degrees in three academic departments: Mass Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Film and Television, and Journalism. Located on the east side of the Boston University campus , the College of Communication building is just blocks from Kenmore Square and Fenway Park. The College of Communication is home to many of Boston University's most popular student-run organizations, including butv10 , WTBU Radio, AdLab, and PRLab. COM also offers special internship programs in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and London. Each summer, the school hosts the Academy of Media Production, a four-week program for high-school students.
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The College of Engineering at Boston University offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in various fields in... engineering. The college currently consists of: The College of Engineering has melded three of its programs under one roof. Aerospace, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Engineering now fall under the Mechanical Engineering major with concentrations in both Aerospace and Manufacturing. In addition, the college is home to eight primary research centers, 109 Tenure/Tenure-track faculty, and 4 research faculty, and lists roughly $28.5 million in sponsored research awards. "Boston University - College of Engineering". 2007. http://www.bu.edu/eng/facts/. Retrieved 2007-01-07.  "Boston University College of Engineering". http://www.bu.edu/eng/.
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The College of Arts and Sciences is Boston University's largest undergraduate school, offering Bachelor of Arts degrees in 23 different departments... and 20 interdisciplinary programs. The programs are divided into four broad categories encompassing over 1500 courses, including natural science, social science, humanities, and math & computer science. About half of the students at Boston University are enrolled through the College of Arts and Sciences, while almost all students take a few courses through the school during their academic career. Boston University's CAS stresses a breadth of knowledge in addition to the deeper studies within a student's major. Because of this, students are required to complete general requirements which can be fulfilled in two ways. Students can choose to fulfill the general requirements through divisional studies or the Core Curriculum. The divisional studies track requires students to take two courses in each of the three divisions of which their major is not a part. Additionally, students must also complete a one year sequence in Boston University's writing program.
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The Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College is a unit of Boston University. The College offers both... undergraduate and graduate degree programs to prepare students for both research and clinical careers in health care and the rehabilitation sciences. In 1881, Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent founded the Sargent School of Physical Training in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the decades that followed the establishment of the School, Dr. Sargent built a reputation as an innovator in physical conditioning and health promotion. At the Sargent School, students learned training techniques to strengthen and improve the physical capabilities of all people, including both disabled and healthy individuals. This emphasis on comprehensive health care remains a focus of the College today. Sargent College became part of Boston University in 1929, five years after Dr. Sargent's death. In the fall of 1990, BU Sargent College moved to an extensively renovated facility at 635 Commonwealth Avenue.
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The Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine is the dental school at Boston University. Its curriculum is noted for the Applied Professional... Experience Program, which gives students practical experience at a dental practice as part of clinical training. GSDM is also noted for its student and faculty research and is ranked highly in the nation. The School has about 800 students in predoctoral and postdoctoral programs. The School can trace its origins to 1958 when the Boston University Medical School started a Department of Stomatology to provide postdoctoral education in dentistry. At that time, the institution was the only one in the country devoted solely to specialty education in dentistry. In 1963, it became Boston University School of Graduate Dentistry under the leadership of Dean Henry M. Goldman. In 1970, the School moved to 100 East Newton Street. In 1972, the School included a predoctoral program leading to a DMD degree. In 1996, the School had outgrown its designation as a school of graduate dentistry and, accordingly, was renamed the “Boston University Henry M.
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The Boston University School of Social Work , located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA is one of the 16 graduate schools of Boston University. BU SSW... offers full and part-time programs leading to the Master of Social Work degree, with concentrations in Clinical and Macro Social Work Practice. Advanced Standing programs are also available. The full-time study program includes two years of full-time study in residence. There are several part-time study programmes. Typically part-time students fulfill the degree requirements in either three or four years. Part-time students can attend the Charles River campus, or attend one of the two off-campus programmes. The off-campus, part-time program in Northeastern Massachusetts is located in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. The off-campus, part-time program in Southeastern Massachusetts, is located in Fall River, Massachusetts and on Cape Cod. The Macro Social Work concentration is only available at the Charles River campus. The off-campus sites and the Charles River campus offer the Clinical Social Work program of study.
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Boston University School of Theology is the oldest theological seminary of American Methodism and the founding school of Boston University, the... largest private research university in New England. It is one of thirteen theological schools maintained by the United Methodist Church. BUSTH is a member of the Boston Theological Institute consortium. On 24–25 April 1839 a group of Methodist ministers and laymen met at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston and elected to establish a Methodist theological school. Following that vote, Osmon C. Baker, director of the Newbury Seminary, a high school and literary institution in Newbury, Vermont, started a biblical studies program at the seminary in 1840. It was named the Newbury Biblical Institute. In 1847 a Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire, invited the Institute to relocate to Concord and made available a disused Congregational church building with a capcity of 1200 people. Other citizens of Concord covered the remodeling costs. One stipulation of the invitation was that the Institute remain in Concord for at least 20 years.
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Jhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for... Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both "good names", but goes by her nickname Jhumpa. Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. Lahiri was born in London, the daughter of Bengali Indian immigrants. Her family moved to the United States when she was three; Lahiri considers herself an American, stating, "I wasn't born here, but I might as well have been." Lahiri grew up in Kingston, Rhode Island, where her father Amar Lahiri works as a librarian at the University of Rhode Island; he is the basis for the protagonist in "The Third and Final Continent," the closing story from Interpreter of Maladies. Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their Bengali heritage, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta .
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Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously... referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Other labels such as 'baroque' often appear. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company developing a manned sub-orbital launch system, and is also cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He has also written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury , under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury. Born on October 31, 1959 in Fort Meade, Maryland, Stephenson came from a family of engineers and hard scientists; his father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor.
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Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, and vocalist. Blackman is involved in the North American goth, spoken word... and transgressive literature scenes. Blackman self-published three now out-of-print chapbooks: Pretty, Sweet, and Nice, and were collected in Akashic Books' Blood Sugar. Her work as a performance artist include "Bloodwork" performed at The Kitchen/NYC in 2000, where she debuted her blood performance , slipped secret messages into the audience's coat pockets, projected text on the street and created audio visual installations. Since then she has performed "Courtesan Tales" at PS122 art space in New York City, at The Andy Warhol Museum/Pittsburgh, and for three years at the Fierce Festival in Birmingham England. The "Courtesan Tales" are performances in which a blindfolded audience of one has a five minute story whispered into their ear. She debuted "Harm's Way" as a work in progress in New York.
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Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. In 1987, she won an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance in Moonstruck. She... received another Golden Globe nomination for Sinatra, and Emmy nominations for Lucky Day, More Tales of the City and Joan of Arc. Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from Anatolia and her mother from the Peloponnese. She has a brother, Apollo, and is a cousin of Michael Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts and the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, for whom she was a delegate from New Jersey at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She is an alumna of Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, and was educated at Boston University. Dukakis has been married to actor Louis Zorich since 1962. They have three children. Dukakis has held a lengthy career in a diverse range of films, including Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland's Opus, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Thing About My Folks, and Moonstruck, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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Gail Caldwell was the chief book critic for The Boston Globe, where she was on staff from 1985 to 2009. Caldwell was the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer... Prize for Criticism. The award was for eight Sunday reviews and two other columns written in 2000. According to the Pulitzer Prize board, those columns were noted for “her insightful observations on contemporary life and literature.” Caldwell was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. After graduating from Tascosa High School, she attended Texas Tech University for a while but transferred to University of Texas at Austin and obtained two degrees in American studies. She was an instructor at the University of Texas until 1981. Before joining the The Boston Globe, Caldwell taught feature writing at Boston University, worked as the arts editor of the Boston Review and wrote for the publications New England Monthly and Village Voice. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and wrote the 2006 memoir, A Strong West Wind : A Memoir and the 2010, Let's Take the Long Way Home, a memoir of her friendship with author Caroline Knapp. She has a Samoyed named Tula. Gail Caldwell was born in 1951.
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Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her... poetry include her suicidal tendencies, long battle against depression and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children. Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Harvey. She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School. For a time she modeled for Boston's Hart Agency. On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Sexton and they remained together until 1973. She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd. Sexton suffered from severe mental illness for much of her life, her first manic episode taking place in 1954. After a second breakdown in 1955 she met Dr Martin Orne, who became her long-term therapist at the Glenside Hospital, and encouraged her to take up poetry. The first poetry workshop she attended was led by John Holmes.
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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE is a Romanian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is... the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the Algemeiner Journal newspaper. When Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, the Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind", stating that through his struggle to come to terms with "his own personal experience of total humiliation and of the utter contempt for humanity shown in Hitler's death camps", as well as his "practical work in the cause of peace", Wiesel had delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania , Maramureş, Kingdom of Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, Sarah Feig, was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vizhnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village.
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Alan Shaw Taylor is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about colonial... America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. Taylor graduated from Colby College, in Waterville, Maine, in 1977 and earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1986. His thesis advisor was Marvin Meyers, a historian of Jacksonian America, whom Taylor praised in the preface of his book Writing Early American History . Currently he is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, having taught previously at Boston University. Taylor is best known for his contributions to microhistory, best exemplified in his Pulitzer-Prize winning history of William Cooper and the settlement of Cooperstown, New York. Using court records, land records, letters, and diaries, Taylor painstakingly reconstructs the economic, political and social history of New England and the settlement of New York.
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