A division of the Sargent College Clinical Center and an outgrowth of the BU Physical Therapy Center, the Athletic Enhancement Center BUAEC strives to improve athletic performance and prevent injuries in youth, high school, and adult athletes while also providing a training venue that allows young adults to develop life skills and positive character traits. The center is the Northeast's most complete athlete development facility. Programs are designed to increase strength, power, energy system resources, flexibility, and mental toughness, resulting in players who are stronger, quicker, and less at risk for injury.
The 83,square-foot facility is designed to be one of the best such facilities in the country. Some features include four tennis courts, a fixed-bank meter track, a 1,person seating capacity, and premiere space to hold national competitions. President Jon Westling says, "All but two of the governments on the two continents are led by men. It seems fitting, then, that the first female graduation speaker in the University's history should also be the first woman to lead her people.
And it is with great pride that I announce that the speaker at the University's Commencement exercises in is Her Excellency Sila M. We marvel at its freedom to fly to the most far away places.
Yet, we forget that for it to have that sense of unimpeded liberty, this tiny living thing is constantly battling much greater forces than itself: the wind, the rain, all kinds of tempests that threaten every part of its journey…Yet, it goes on…and on…and prevails against great odds. Be not afraid to lift your wings and let your spirits soar. Dream and do. Aspire and accomplish. Let that strength of character shine through. Enjoy life and, above all, be true to your soul.
The high cost of health care places a great burden on the competitiveness of many major American manufacturing and other businesses. In response to cost-reduction pressures from corporate leaders, health care managers often respond in ways that negatively impact quality of care. Such responses fail to recognize a source of great waste in the health care delivery system: excessive variability in the processes used to provide care.
The Management of Variability Program develops, implements, and evaluates methods to reduce this type of artificial management variability and better manage "natural" variability. The premise is that researching the reduction of process variability has as much potential for reducing costs and improving quality as approaches like cost-effectiveness analyses of new technologies, practice guidelines, and provider profiling. Its importance lies in the fact that individual institutions alone cannot support this type of research, even though its results will be of great benefit to individual institutions and the health care system as a whole.
The Institute for the Study of Human Resilience explores human resilience through research, practical application of our findings, and sharing information with affected people, their families, helping professions, and policy makers. Campus, Commencement, Learning, Research. Comprised of a team of researchers and clinicians with expertise in rehabilitation and movement science, the Center for Neurorehabilitation conducts research and runs clinical and educational activities in a single location, all with the goal of directly impacting the quality of rehabilitation provided to persons with neurological disorders.
The center offers physical therapy services for people with Parkinson's disease and other neurological diagnoses. The Center for Excellence in Teaching is established to promote and support exemplary teaching, facilitate the continued professional development of faculty as teachers, and introduce new faculty to the culture of excellence in teaching at Boston University. The center is a forum for exploring the methods, tools, and spirit of inquiry central to the teaching and learning processes.
By cultivating teachers who transmit their own passion for an area of inquiry and curiosity about what remains to be discovered, the center encourages teachers to motivate students to participate actively in their own education and to guide them on their way to becoming lifelong learners. Boston University completes construction of a new Student Village residence hall.
The bed dormitory allows the University to house more than 75 percent of the undergraduates who need housing, a longtime goal of the University. To accommodate the team, the field receives a makeover, including a new artificial surface, a renovated grandstand, and new lighting and sound systems.
Celebrated novelist, journalist, and commentator Tom Wolfe speaks at Commencement. Wolfe has led his readers through the thickets of greed and honor, love and suspicion, that sometimes seem to be the natural habitat of the modern American. There is no writer living today better prepared than Mr. Wolfe to cast a discerning eye on the world. The Frederick S.
Defined by its longer-range vision and not confined to any particular set of issues, the center seeks to identify, anticipate, and enhance the long-term potential for human progress through research, education, and outreach. The Editorial Institute opens with the conviction that textually sound, contextually annotated material is central to the intellectual life of many disciplines. The institute promotes critical awareness of editorial issues and practices and offers training in proper editorial methods.
CIHD works with developing and transitional country scientists to carry out policy- and program-relevant research on issues critical to their countries, helping them use the information generated to improve the health and well-being of their populations.
The Boston University ice hockey team wins an unprecedented 6th straight Beanpot tournament. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger focuses on leadership in his address to more than 5, graduates and 20, guests during the th Boston University Commencement. That too is the challenge before us. And this is why John Silber has been such an inspiration to me. The Institute for Astrophysical Research IAR opens with a mission to promote and facilitate both research and education in astrophysics at Boston University.
IAR members carry out research in a wide variety of astronomical fields including star formation, the interstellar medium, galactic structure, stellar variability, active galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy clusters, gravitational lensing, and dark matter. Graduate and undergraduate students are active, vital participants in IAR's research programs.
Its research efforts are constantly pushing forward the science of beauty by developing more effective and less invasive techniques. Commencement speaker Gary Locke LAW'75 , governor of Washington and first Asian-American governor in the country, told the 5,plus degree candidates who filled Nickerson Field on May 17 that they were the American dream personified.
Your stories are made of similar journeys—journeys fueled by the American dream of freedom, hope, and opportunity. And this Commencement ceremony is what generation after generation of Americans and people all across the globe have dreamed of and sacrificed for. Many BU faculty members currently run educational and enrichment activities for middle- and high-school students to share the University's resources with them and stimulate their interest in various academic disciplines. LERNet is designed to serve as a resource center and clearinghouse to help with ongoing events and to assist faculty who are interested in planning new programs.
The Historical Society is an effort to reorient the historical profession and revitalize the teaching and broad dissemination of historical knowledge. The society embraces people of every ideological and political tendency and offers a place to debate those views in the context of historical study. The work is oriented toward the discipline of practical theology and guided by critical reflection on the actual practice and lived faith of Christians in congregations around the world.
The center was later renamed the Center for Practical Theology. In April, BioSquare 2 , a ,square-foot building which will include research facilities for the School of Medicine, breaks ground. The building is dedicated in May Construction begins on a new boathouse, which opens in the fall of Quantum Aspects of the World offers a portal to Boston University courses, support materials, and tools to explore the quantum aspects of the world.
MAVERIC's mission is to improve the health of veterans and enhance health care delivery in the Veterans Health Administration VHA by promoting the conduct of VA-based population research relevant to the needs of veterans; facilitating the transfer of vital epidemiological information to VHA providers and administrators; and educating the next generation of population researchers.
In addition, MAVERIC has supported and participated in several national and local educational activities to develop clinical and scientific researchers practicing in the field. The Center for BioDynamics , a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental center whose mission is to advance training and research at the interfaces among dynamical systems, biology, and engineering, opens its doors.
In , Pinsky becomes the first poet laureate to be asked to serve a third term. His final term is completed in The center, located at 8 St. He received a Rhodes scholarship and studied history at St. He served Boston University for more than two decades in a number of positions, including provost, before his appointment as president in During his tenure, he set six consecutive records for University fund-raising, opened a new complex of apartment-style dormitories, and initiated a dozen major building projects, including new science buildings and recreational and athletic facilities.
He emphasized the importance of academic standards in admissions, streamlined bureaucracy in creating the University Service Center, and set a new tone of campus collegiality. The Center for Anxiety-Related Disorders CARD opens to study the nature of emotional disorders and to develop and provide effective treatment for adults and children.
President John Silber addresses the graduating class at Commencement. The Mass Spectrometry Resource Center develops and applies mass spectral methods for biology and medicine with a primary emphasis on studies of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates.
The mission is to pursue sophisticated mass spectrometry in an environment with close interaction with life scientists and physicians. The HRC was formed to develop and disseminate knowledge that will improve the nation's auditory health and allow the fullest utilization of the sense of hearing.
Research in the Hearing Research Center combines theoretical and experimental studies of auditory processing to understand hearing in both normal and impaired auditory systems. The Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center —which commemorates Elizabeth Bishop, a wine and culinary arts enthusiast who worked closely with Julia Child—is established for the study of wine and other spirits. The center aims to foster educational programs that explore all aspects of wine—viticulture, enology, wine history, economics, distribution and marketing, pairing wine with food, and the psychological, physiological, and cultural phenomena of wine consumption.
Professor Farouk El-Baz resolves the controversy about the crowd size in Washington, DC's "Million Man March" by estimating the number of participants in the march using the same computer techniques applied to counting sand dunes in the desert.
He succeeds in conveying the excitement of scientific research and the importance of using advanced technology. Ross Perot, the Texas businessman who won 19 percent of the popular vote for President in , addresses Boston University graduates at Commencement.
Construction begins on the Rafik B. Hariri Building of the School of Management; the building officially opens in October With the Crime Control and Prevention Act of , Pell Grants for prisoners are eliminated, and as a result, universities withdraw their prison education programs. Only Boston University continues to operate in prisons, though since it has focused exclusively on undergraduate courses.
The Reverend Dr. Johnny Ray Youngblood, a senior pastor at St. Boston University confers 2, undergraduate and 2, graduate and professional degrees at the outdoor ceremonies. Founded by the late Dr. Joseph Korn, former Chief of the Section and an internationally recognized researcher and clinical investigator in scleroderma research, the Scleroderma Center at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center is a multidisciplinary program encompassing basic and clinical research and patient care.
Boston University enters into a cooperative agreement with a nonprofit consortium of 46 German research institutes known as the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Society. Boston University Academy, a college preparatory school, opens under the guidance of President Silber.
Renowned Peruvian novelist and politician Mario Vargas Llosa delivered the Keynote Address at Commencement and urged more than 5, graduating Boston University students to go out into the world and make a difference by upholding liberty and fighting against discrimination and violence of all kinds.
It has equipped you to face great obstacles in many areas. Stand up to the occasion, and make the world a better place. The College of Engineering establishes the Center for Advanced Biotechnology, which focuses on developing new methodologies and biological materials. Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the former Soviet Foreign Minister, told Boston University graduates during his Commencement Address that the Cold War had promoted a national psychosis in both the United States and the Soviet Union because "we were capable of destroying all life on Earth.
The Systems Research Center SRC opens at the School of Management to promote better understanding of how information technology can be used to improve business performance and create new business opportunities; in , the center becomes The Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy BUILDE to explore the effects of emerging information and related technologies on competitive markets and organizations.
In , BUILDE is renamed The Institute for Global Work IGW with a mandate to foster partnership between industry and academia, and as such works collaboratively with member companies, worldwide academic bodies, and think tanks to generate compelling research that motivates managers to think and work differently on a global scale.
We will explore both the opportunities and challenges that arise as organizations seek to initiate innovation on a global scale. IGW faculty believe that the emergence of the global workplace will create enormous opportunities for those who develop the skills to lead in this global marketplace.
The Honorable Louis W. The Center serves as an umbrella for the precollege and informal science and mathematics education programs already in place within the Boston University community, as well as for future research and development projects in these fields.
The Leadership Institute opens at Boston University School of Management as a high-impact, fast-cycle learning initiative, designed and tailored to maximize the opportunities for executives to discover the new approaches and capabilities they will need to succeed and thrive in the new economy.
The institute is designed primarily for managers who are moving into leadership roles with broader, cross-functional responsibilities. Those individuals who are seeking to develop the leadership skills necessary to implement strategies that keep their companies growing and competitive will most benefit from this program.
This can't be taught; it has to be seeded and experienced. The unlearning and learning should be cultivated by engaging leaders in the process of discovery, experimentation, and application. The Center for Computational Science opens to coordinate and promote computationally based research, foster computational science education, and support the expansion of computational resources.
Sargent College moves to its own building at Commonwealth Avenue, the site of the former School of Nursing. Founded as an "incubator" for developing groundbreaking concepts and best business practices, The Executive Development Roundtable is a partnership between business and academia.
EDRT provides a collegial and open environment in which upper-level leadership and executive development professionals can discuss best practice solutions, obtain industry-specific benchmarking tools, and obtain the overall professional development necessary to succeed. Bush and Francois Mitterrand, president of the French Republic.
Boston University celebrates its Sesquicentennial with over 40 events throughout the year highlighting the historic moments of the first years since its founding. The Center for Space Physics opens to explore and research space physics, including space plasma physics, magnetospheric physics, ionospheric physics, atmospheric physics, and planetary and cometary atmospheric studies.
Students in astronomy, applied physics, and engineering conduct research through the center, which also serves as the coordinating mechanism for grants and has a inch telescope at McDonald Observatory.
The goal: to make Chelsea schools "a model for excellence in urban education. Volunteers collect nearly , pounds of food annually from local restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries, grocery surplus facilities, and coffee shops each week and distribute it to area meal programs, food pantries, and shelters. Rehnquist urges graduates to value and use their spare time wisely.
Like any free-market economist, you ought then to look at what else might be done with the marginal few hours at the end of the week that aren't really necessary to earning a living. Professor Emeritus Warren O. Ault addresses guests at a campus celebration of his th birthday on April 4th. For fifty-two years—full time from until and part time until —Professor Ault was the avatar of teaching excellence at Boston University. Howard Thurman. The center hosts cultural programs, activities, and services designed to build community through self-exploration and shared experiences.
The institute sponsors professional seminars and conferences, conducts research on policy-relevant issues, and works with social service agencies to respond to the needs of addicted clients. Student volunteers address issues of critical concern such as youth education, the AIDS pandemic, the destruction of the environment, and providing food and shelter for the poorest among us.
Through the supervision, training, and support of the center, the energies of young people create affordable housing, provide companionship to elders, and tutor recent immigrants in English as a second language.
Wiesel born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, is a Jewish writer, professor, political activist, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of over 40 books, the best known of which is Night , a memoir that describes his experiences during the Holocaust and his imprisonment in several concentration camps. Boston University creates the Medeiros Scholarship Program, granting full-tuition awards to students from local parochial high schools. When it opens in , the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture focuses on the relation of culture to economic development; the agenda eventually expands to include social and political issues as these relate to culture.
Since religion is at the core of culture in most of the world, CURA has paid special attention to the role of religion in world affairs. The Entrepreneurial Management Institute EMI offers customized education, training, mentoring, networking, and other tools to help create sustainable enterprises that meet important global needs in sectors such as health care, clean energy, and information systems.
For students and faculty seeking to commercialize research conducted at BU, ITEC works closely with Technology Development and together they offer a full complement of legal, financial, and managerial resources to aspiring entrepreneurs. They reach across industries, markets, and communities and cross language, cultural, geographic, political, and economic barriers to launch new businesses on new platforms to serve global markets.
In doing so, they go above and beyond human imagination—empowering people, engaging societies, and breaking political and geographical boundaries to build sustainable, socially responsible enterprises that solve big problems. Under the direction of John Silber, Boston University inaugurates the World Leaders Forum, bringing international leaders and other key policy makers to campus to deliver addresses of political and social importance.
Speakers receive an honorary degree from the University. The center uses satellite images and other data from airborne and ground sensors to study the Earth and its resources, particularly groundwater. This research includes monitoring environmental changes due to both natural processes and human activities. The College of Engineering establishes the NeuroMuscular Research Center NMRC to increase knowledge of motor control and improve the quality of health care for neuromuscular-impaired patients.
The Data Coordinating Center specializes in questionnaire and case report form design; implementing study protocols; data management; data entry; and statistical, database, and Web-based programming. Its staff of statistical programmers, database programmers, and data managers are experts in study design, developing computerized and Web-based data collection and tracking systems, quality control procedures, and statistical analysis methods.
Data management systems can be custom-designed for projects that involve remote data entry using a Web browser or projects conducted online. Dedicated to conducting scholarly research, publishing material on Jewish law, and providing continuing education in this specialized field, the Institute for Jewish Law seeks to make publications available in English that focus on the analysis of contemporary issues using traditional Jewish sources.
Neil Hecht, a tenured member of the law faculty, is the founding director of the institute, which has published over thirty volumes and conducts annual joint conferences with Harvard Law School on a variety of Jewish law topics.
The Arthur G. Faculty and students focus on three major research themes: the acquisition of signed languages, the impact of language on the education of the Deaf child, and the developmental assessment of bilingual approaches to the education of Deaf children. Community services focus on projects assisting the hearing parents of Deaf children and on workshops and presentations to area agencies.
The center has recently begun to create assessment instruments to determine ASL development in Deaf children. School of Management faculty, graduate students, and fellows partner with top-level human resources executives from member companies, discuss the latest trends, benchmark best practices, and sponsor faculty and doctoral-level research.
The program becomes a school in The Honorable William E. The Center for Enterprise Leadership opens. A partnership of academics and senior executives dedicated to research, communication, and learning with respect to fundamental problems of product and service supply in a global economy, the center would operate for the next fifteen years.
The winning game is played on February 24, This game is known as the "Miracle on Ice" and is portrayed in the Disney movie Miracle. The Evergreen Program offers the opportunity for older members of the community to attend Boston University lectures. The Honorable Edward M. The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation , a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities, opens.
The center adheres to the most basic of rehabilitation values: First and foremost, a person with psychiatric disabilities has the same goals and dreams as any other person. Its mission is to increase the likelihood that a person with psychiatric disabilities can achieve these goals by improving the effectiveness of people, programs, and service systems.
The center is multidisciplinary and problem-oriented; its educational programs are based on the philosophy that students need a solid training in traditional disciplines as well as a set of integrative courses that expose them to the broad and systematic nature of environmental problems.
This approach also informs the center's research programs, which investigate some of the planet's most challenging environmental issues. Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William Miller delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement.
The Anna Howard Shaw Center opens at Boston University to promote structures and practices that empower women and to honor diversity. That led to the creation of Women and the Word, the center's national preaching event, held each spring. Bishops, teachers, artists, and theologians serve as the primary leadership as women get to hear other women preach.
The Media Resource Center, a support facility offering media services for students, faculty, and staff including classroom media support and media production as well as technical support and instruction, opens at Sargent College. The center is later renamed the George K. Through the production of digital educational materials, the MSC supports and enhances teaching, learning, and research in the health and rehabilitation fields. The center also features four quiet study rooms—each one equipped with hi-definition LCD panels for viewing course-related media and developing PowerPoint presentations for classes—so students can work in groups without disturbing others.
A public health research organization, the Slone Epidemiology Center studies the possible health effects of medications and other variables in adults and children. A staff of approximately includes specialists in epidemiology, adult and pediatric medicine, nursing, pharmacy, biostatistics, and computer science. Slone researchers use a variety of epidemiological tools, including case-control and follow-up studies, clinical trials, surveillance studies, risk management studies, and population-based surveys.
The Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute of Boston University Medical Center advances research, treatment, and education in the broad area of heart and vascular disease by providing a unified structure that integrates the components of basic science, clinical investigation, medical education, patient care, health-policy planning, and community research.
Amazingly, Perls and his researchers pinpoint a region on human chromosome 4 that is likely to contain a gene or genes associated with extraordinary life expectancy. These teaching honors are created by an endowment from the late Dr. Arthur G. Metcalf, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. The Boston Scholars Program is initiated and provides full-tuition scholarships and pre-college courses for local high school students.
President of the Rockefeller Foundation John H. Knowles delivers the Keynote Address at Commencement. The program strives to provide the means whereby, through education, students currently imprisoned can become informed, successful, and contributing citizens. Boston University continues to be nationally recognized for its contribution to the lives of prisoners in the program, and by extension, its contribution to the prisons they inhabit, the families they left behind, and the communities to which they will return.
Appointed Boston University president in , Silber took charge of an institution in financial and educational disarray. His first task was to balance the budget. He also hired distinguished new faculty, raised admissions standards, expanded the campus, built the endowment, reinstituted academic requirements, and had protesters who broke the law arrested.
Among his other notable achievements were managing the school system of neighboring Chelsea for 10 years and establishing the Prison Education Program and Boston University Academy. In March , he announced that he would step down on May 31, , to become Chancellor. In , Boston University doctors become co-directors of the Framingham Heart Study , a landmark series of physical exams and lifestyle interviews that began in with 5, residents of Framingham, Mass.
After more than 60 years, the study is one of the largest and longest-running epidemiological research projects in the world. The first course is taught in Over the years the institute's programs reflect broad concerns such as promoting social justice, founding pluralistic societies, and exploring the deepest questions about life as reflected in theological and philosophical discourse.
Established with the cooperation of three academic units of Boston University—the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Religion, and the School of Theology—the institute is envisioned as a home for serious philosophical and religious reflection and hosts a popular lecture series on issues that cross boundaries between academic disciplines and between scholars and the educated public.
In May, two newspapers merge to become the Daily Free Press as students respond to the Kent State shootings; final exams and graduation are cancelled. The "Freep," which captures the event in its first issue, currently enjoys the longest continuous run of any publication at the University. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society. Cases can be made for excessive partying, but the truth is, it does not permeate the entire college at all.
The school is large enough where almost anyone can come out of their shell. The school prides itself with having a Tier 1 research program with over 2, research labs on campus yes, you read that correctly as well as being 1 out of 60 United States universities in the prestigious Association of American Universities.
Yes, Boston University is elite. The average ACT composite last year was The academic workload at BC is pretty tough , but of course that depends on your major. Professors are pretty willing to help students and for the most part want them to do well. Learning, Virtue, Piety is the motto for Boston University. Boston University Academy was created in Boston University Brussels was created in University of Massachusetts Boston was created in Boston University Bridge was created in There are many famous universities in Boston.
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