Tulane University President Scott Cowen addressed Tulane students, their parents and local Tulane alumni Thursday regarding the devastation, recovery and renewal of the New Orleans campus after Hurricane Katrina at Boston University's Track and Tennis Center.
Boston water providers and servers say that recent "scare tactics" from groups claiming there is lead in Boston's water are unfounded because the lead is actually in the pipes, not directly in the water source. But at a City Council hearing Thursday, some councilors expressed concern that lead in piping can still be a risk for low-income families.
Boston University College of Fine Arts 2003 alumnus Paul Cortez has been questioned by the New York City Police Department in connection to the murder of exotic dancer Catherine Woods, according to numerous media reports. Woods was found with wounds to her neck at approximately 7 p.
Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center founder and namesake Howard Gotlieb died in Boston Thursday from complications following surgery. He was 79. Center Director Vita Paladino said Gotlieb had no blood relatives and said she was one of his closest and oldest friends.
Dr. Thomas Royle Dawber, a former Boston University professor and the first director of the Framingham Heart Study, died in an Alzheimer's care facility in Florida Nov. 23. He was 92. Dawber died in his sleep after experiencing complications with Alzheimer's Disease, according to School of Medicine and School of Public Health professor Dr.
Despite weeks of debate about what the tree should be called, more than 1,000 people turned out for the 64th annual Boston Christmas Tree and Holiday Lighting Celebration at the Boston Common Thursday night. The 48-foot White Spruce sparked a debate over whether the tree should be called a "christmas tree" or a "holiday tree.
Call it school spirit. Universities around the country are offering alumni with a strong connection to their schools an eternal connection, providing plots of land for an eventual grave. The University of Notre Dame in Indiana and Norwich University in Vermont think they have the answer.
A pair of 20-year old twins are suing their father, Boston University professor Rev. Lucien Richard, for not acknowledging them as his children, negligence and sexual abuse, physically and emotionally, according to the complaint. The defendant works in the University Professors Program and also serves as a priest in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Lowell.
With childhood obesity rates on the rise - approximately 30 percent of children and adolescents are overweight and 15 percent weigh in as obese, according to the American Obesity Association - the American Heart Association recently named BU professor Paula Quatromoni as the Childhood Obesity Initiative spokeswoman to try to raise awareness and lower these rates.
To make university research more effective and efficient, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services drafted voluntary guidelines for reporting research data, but some universities see the guidelines as an overreach of government control. Anthony DeCrappeo, president of the Council of Governmental Relations, an association involved in the financial and administrative aspects of federally funded research, said these guidelines will have a significant effect on universities and the way they conduct research.
Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and state representatives paid tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks yesterday on the State House steps Thursday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the day she was arrested for refusing to give up her front seat on a Montgomery, Ala.