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8 unusual facts about Boston University


David Werner

David Werner (Born 1934) is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor (Where There is No Doctor), co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, Department of International Health.

Howard Thurman

Dr. Thurman was then invited to Boston University in 1958, where he became the first black dean of Marsh Chapel (1953–1965).

Boston University named the school's cultural center, in the basement of the George Sherman Union, after Howard Thurman.

He was Dean of Chapel at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades, wrote 21 books, and in 1944 helped found a multicultural church.

Jin Liqun

Jin holds a master’s degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University.

Karen Siris

Born in Port Washington, NY, she graduated from Schreiber High School in 1968, obtained her undergraduate degree at Boston University, her MA in Literacy from New York University and her Ed.D in Educational Leadership at Hofstra University.

Nicholas Spanos

He was an American by birth and received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University.

Reginald Case

He studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo receiving a Bachelor of Science degree, San Francisco State University and Boston University where he earned the Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees.


Allston–Brighton

They are connected to the Fenway/Kenmore area of Boston by a tiny strip of land containing Boston University along the Charles River, with Brookline lying to the south and southeast, Cambridge to the north and Newton to the west, so they retain a very distinct neighbourhood identity together.

Ambrose D. Richard

Richard was educated at St. Joseph's College there, at St. Dunstan's College in Prince Edward Island and at Boston University.

Antonio Missiroli

Missiroli has lectured in several subjects at various universities (European politics at the University of Bath, European security at the university of Trento, transatlantic security at Boston University, and European Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University.

Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

It is also a Harvard Catalyst site, and incorporates research projects from Boston University, McLean Hospital, and other Boston institutions.

Bill Herrion

Herrion began his college coaching career in 1985 as an assistant under Mike Jarvis at Boston University.

Boston University Housing System

The Boston University housing system is the 2nd-largest of any private university in the United States, with 76% of the undergraduate population living on campus.

Carl Princi

While at Boston University, Princi took a course in broadcasting, which led to a job at WESX.

Caryl Rivers

In 1979 Rivers and historian Howard Zinn were among a group of Boston University faculty members who defended the right of the school's clerical workers to strike and were threatened with dismissal after refusing to cross a picket line.

Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez

After receiving a B.A. in history and government from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) in 1956, she then earned a S.T.B in student work from Boston University School of Theology in 1960 and a Ph.D. in systematic theology and history of doctrine from Boston University in 1965.

Charles Alverson

The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University currently houses the Charles Alverson Collection.

Coastal Road massacre

According to Augustus Richard Norton, professor of international relations at Boston University, the IDF military operation killed approximately 1,100 people, most of them Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

Dana Frankfort

and a painting professor at Boston University College of Fine Arts.

Daniel Goldin presidency of Boston University

Circumstances relating to a Daniel Goldin presidency of Boston University began in the summer of 2003, following the resignation of its eighth president Jon Westling, the Trustees of Boston University voted unanimously to offer the presidency of the university to Daniel S. Goldin, former administrator of NASA under Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

Delaina Dixon

Dixon attended Boston University's College of Communication, where she created the long-running student-run drama series Bay State.

Don Feder

Feder is a 1969 graduate of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts and a 1972 graduate of the Boston University School of Law.

Frank Burr Mallory

Mallory received honorary degrees from Tufts University (Sc.D., 1928) and Boston University (Sc.D., 1932), and was awarded the Kober medal in 1935 by the Association of American Physicians for outstanding service in pathology.

Gardner Read

After heading the composition departments of the St. Louis Institute of Music, the Kansas City Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Read became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Composition at the School of Music at Boston University.

Gaston Allaire

He went on to earn a PhD in musicology from Boston University in 1960 after writing a doctoral thesis entitled The masses of Claudin de Sermisy.

Glenda Chong

Chong attended CHIJ Katong Convent and Victoria Junior College, and graduated summa cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism and holds a Masters of Social Sciences (International Studies) from the National University of Singapore.

Glyn Maxwell

He began an MLitt there, but in 1987 moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at Boston University.

Hardy LeBel

Hardy LeBel Jr. graduated from High School at Providence Country Day School and also attended Boston University where he studied acting for a time, but ultimately earned his Bachelor's degree in English studies.

Harry Agganis

In 2005, Boston University opened their new athletic facility, Agganis Arena, at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Harry Agganis Way on the Charles River Campus.

Hebrew High School of New England

Virtually all students go on to four-year colleges after graduation, and HHNE students have been accepted to top schools such as Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barnard College, Brandeis University, Boston University, New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University.

Hijaz mountains

The course of the now dried up river, the modern-day Wadi Al-Rummah and its extension Wadi Al-Batin, was identified by Farouk El-Baz of Boston University and named the 'Kuwait River.'

HumorFeed

The awards panel for the first two years included a range of noted humorists and journalists including Andrew Marlatt of SatireWire, John Markoff of the New York Times, Robert Zelnick of Boston University, Eric Weiner of National Public Radio, and Madeleine Begun Kane of "Mad Kane's Humor & Satire".

Jay Craven

Craven attended Boston University for undergraduate studies where he studied and developed a lifelong friendship with Howard Zinn.

Jerry Levine

Levine is married to Nina Tassler, a television executive, who is also a graduate of Boston University.

John Cheffers

Receiving his Masters of Education in 1970, and his Doctorate of Education in 1973, both from Temple University in Philadelphia, John moved north to Boston where he worked for Boston University.

Marc W. Buie

He is also active in the development of state-of-the-art astronomical instrumentation having just completed the construction of an infrared imaging spectrograph, Mimir, in collaboration with Dan Clemens of Boston University.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1990

Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Murphy, Boston University president John Silber, former Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, and State Representative John H. Flood ran for the Democratic nomination.

Master of Science in Project Management

Boston University in the United States and through its Brussels campus in Belgium offers a Post-Graduate Certificate in Project Management that is recognized by the Project Management Institute and can be credited towards the CAPM credential as well as a Master of Science in Management degree.

Nadia Rosenthal

She received her PhD from Harvard Medical School and was an Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School before transferring to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory where she replaced Klaus Rajewsky who had just gone to work at Harvard Medical School.

Natalie Dell

She attended Boston University for graduate school and trained at the Riverside Boat Club from 2007-2010 until she was named as a Team USA member in September 2010.

Rachel Vetter Huang

Rachel Vetter Huang was born in Edmonton, Canada, and spent her childhood in Chicago, Illinois, and Lexington, Massachusetts, where she studied violin with the Polish-American violinist Roman Totenberg, Professor of Music at Boston University.

Raymond Ramcharitar

He was also awarded a fellowship to Boston University's Creative Writing Programme in 2000 by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, where he studied poetry and drama.

Robert M. Schoch

Robert M. Schoch is an associate professor of Natural Science at the College of General Studies, a two-year non-degree granting unit of Boston University.

Rosalind Barnett

Ms. Barnett has published numerous books and articles with co-author Caryl Rivers, Professor of Journalism at Boston University.

Sphinx water erosion hypothesis

John Anthony West, an author and alternative Egyptologist, investigated Schwaller de Lubicz's ideas further and, in 1989, sought the opinion of Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University.

Stephen Geller

Eventually, in 1986, he returned to Hollywood, working there for a time, but leaving eventually to found screenwriting programs at Arizona State University, and at the Boston University College of Communication.

Steven Karidoyanes

He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Boston University and received training in orchestral conducting at the Canford School of Music in Dorset, England, where he studied with the renowned British conducting coach, George Hurst.

Tariq al-Sawah

In March 2013 the Egypt Independent reported that Tariq's lawyers had arranged for Dr. Sondra Crosby, an associate professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, to examine him on two occasions.

The Double Yellow

After a brief stint touring region-wide visiting locations like the Paradise Rock Club, 242 Main, The Savant Project, Boston University, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Vermont, Brandeis University, and New Hampshire’s Rockin’ Ribfest Festival, the Double Yellow took a leave of absence from performance to finish writing and begin recording their debut album, Everything & Nothing, with noted producer Brian Coombes (Godsmack, Another Animal, Supertramp).

Thierry Cassuto

He studied at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and at Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Science in Broadcasting.


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Adam Mamawala

He also performed with Kel Mitchell at a charity show in June 2008, and in November 2009 he opened for Nigel Lawrence at Boston University's BU Central.

Artaria String quartet

The Artaria Quartet of Boston was formed at Boston University in 1986 by Raphael Hillyer and mentored by Eugene Lehner.

In 1988 Artaria was invited to teach at the quartet seminar (directed by Norman Fischer) at the Boston UniversityTanglewood Institute in the Berkshires.

Ben Kurland

The following year, Kurland was performing again in Oliver! while simultaneously working with his cousin Jaime Ray Newman in Boston University's production of Stop the World: I Want to Get Off.

Bikem Ekberzade

In 1995 Ekberzade went back to Boston University, this time to complete her master’s degree at the College of Communications in the field of Broadcast Journalism.

Braves Field

The stadium was initially called Boston University Field and was later renamed Nickerson Field.

Charles DeLisi

Prior to moving to Boston University, he was Professor and Chair of Biomathematical Sciences and Professor of Molecular Biology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1987–1989), Director of the United States Department of Energy's Health and Environmental Research Programs (1985–1987), Section Chief at National Institutes of Health (1975–1985), and Theoretical Division Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1972–1975).

David K. Colapinto

While at Boston University, he was an investigative reporter for the b.u. exposure, a student-run independent newspaper dedicated to exposing financial and ethical irregularities of the administration of B.U. President John Silber.

Edwin D. Fuller

In his book, he credits learning "the art of leadership and relationship building" from J. W. Marriott, Jr., William Shaw, Al Le Faivre, Paul Reed, Bill Tiefel, Sergeant James, his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers at Boston University, and the many individuals he served beside in the U.S. Army.

Idealism

Borden Parker Bowne, a philosopher at Boston University, a founder and popularizer of personal idealism, presented it as a substantive reality of persons, the only reality, as known directly in self-consciousness.

McShea

Robert J. McShea (1917–1997), Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Boston University

Michael Carnes

He studied composition under John Bavicchi at Berklee College of Music where he received his BA in 1977, John Thow and Theodore Antoniou at Boston University where he received his Masters in Music in 1980 and later with Rudi Martinus van Dijk and Gunther Schuller.

Revenue neutrality of the FairTax

One of the leading economists supporting the FairTax is Dr. Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University.

Rorty

Amélie Rorty, Findlay Professor of Philosophy, Boston University.

Sadi Ranson

After working at Conde Nast Publications, Ranson attended Boston University, returning to Conde Nast for several summers to work as a fashion assistant at Vogue magazine where she worked for Jade Hobson and Anna Wintour as well as other editors under the direction of then editor Grace Mirabella.

Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson starred opposite Adam Lebowitz-Lockard in a production of Neil LaBute's "Bench Seat" from the collection Autobahn for the Fall 2007 Boston University One Acts Festival under the direction of Bryan Lowry and Andy "Sven" Hoglund.

Wadi al-Rummah

Farouk El-Baz (Boston University), "A river in the desert", Discover, July 1993.

Warren Bennis

He has also spent time on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University and taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C), INSEAD and IMD.

Yerxa

Donald A. Yerxa, author co-director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University (BU)