This Is Rock ’n’ Roll
Comments(0) Support for Troops, After Combat
Comments(0) BU’s School of Social Work, the only school of social work tapped to tackle post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) issues stemming from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has won a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to study the impact of war-related stress on military families.
How to Feed a Vegan
Comments(0) Katie Persons (CAS’10) hasn’t eaten a bite of meat for nearly eight years. “I gave it up when I was 13,” she says. “At first my parents worried about what to feed me, but I’d always eaten a lot of vegetables, so the transition was pretty smooth.”
Comic and Tragic
Comments(0) During graduate school, Davida Pines stumbled upon Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a two-volume comic book about the Holocaust. She has been fascinated by comics ever since.
“I wondered at the time if there might be something wrong with being so captivated by a work on the Holocaust,” says Pines, a College of General Studies associate professor of rhetoric. “To this day, I open my classes on Maus by posing that question to my students.”
Men’s Soccer Hosts NCAA Opener Tonight
Comments(0) The men’s soccer Terriers, undefeated for nine games and counting, will meet Fairleigh Dickinson’s Knights tonight in the first round of the NCAA Division I men’s soccer championship, at Nickerson Field at 5 p.m. The Terriers will be making their 14th appearance in the tournament and are hosting a game for the first time since 2004.
How to Get Home for the Holidays
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Promoting diversity
Comments(0) Hundreds of academic, administrative and student leaders gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 18 for the first Diversity Leadership Congress, which aimed to accelerate efforts at promoting diversity and inclusion across MIT.
Campus Eats: La Verdad
Comments(0) I’ve wanted to sample the cuisine of Boston celeb chef Ken Oringer for a long time. The recent Iron Chef winner is the culinary mastermind behind lauded local restaurants Clio, an Asian fusion establishment, Uni, an innovative sashimi bar, and KO Prime, an upscale steakhouse. Unfortunately, my wallet lacks the same powers of expansion as my stomach, so my forays into Oringer’s cuisine had previously been confined to drooling over menus I found posted on his restaurants’ Web sites.
Love Lessons from a Killer Whale
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Amy Sutherland didn’t begin treating her husband like a performing
seal out of the blue — she did years of serious research first.
Sutherland, a College of Communication journalism lecturer, was working
on a book about animal trainers when she found herself applying their
techniques, such as positive reinforcement for good behaviors and
nonreactions to bad ones, to her everyday interactions at home.