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Service, Maintenance Employees Threaten to Strike
University is prepared for walkout, will operate as usual
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Questions, Answers for Students, Staff During a Strike
What to expect when you’re expecting a work stoppage
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Can’t-Miss Haunted Happenings
A guide to celebrating Halloween
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Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2014
Numbers from last weekend
Close Up
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Halloween: Not just for kids anymore. Courtney Latham (SMG’17) (left) and Mingkwan Pookayaporn (SMG’17) are having fun and helping the Community Service Center with Pumpkin Palooza, an effort to brighten shelters around the city with pumpkins carved for the season. Photo by Esther Ro (COM’15)
Honoring Decades of Excellence on the Pitch
As Neil Roberts finishes his 30th season as head coach of BU men's soccer, the five-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America New England Soccer Coach of the Year looks back at his career and talks about his coaching style, his former players, and his appreciation for the game.
What’s Up BU?
Thursday
- Ebola: From the Front Lines12:00pm
- Poetry Reading by Rosanna Warren7:00pm
- XIX Ibero-American Film Festival7:00pm
Friday
Sunday
- Sunday Interdenominational Service at Marsh Chapel11:00am
- Maccabeats Concert and Bone Marrow Drive5:15pm
Tuesday
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Ebola: From the Front Lines
Experts from BU’s School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health share facts about Ebola, firsthand experience in Sierra Leone, US and state health system preparedness, quarantine, travel restrictions, ethical and legal issues, and research. Evans Building, Keefer Auditorium, 72 E. Concord St.; free and open to the public.
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The Addiction Puzzle
Since 2006, Boston University researchers have been awarded more than $130 million for addiction-related research. Currently 50 such projects are under way. In this series, BU Today examines the work of five BU investigators.
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 5: Bringing Scientific Rigor to Addiction Research
Richard Saitz is SPH’s globe-trotting gadfly
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 4: Why Alcoholics’ Gender Matters
MED’s Berman finds men’s, women’s brains affected differently
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The Addiction Puzzle, Part 3: The Search for the Alcohol Trigger
CAS prof says context, mood affect consumption
In Your Words
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The Secret’s in the Spit
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YouSpeak: Fall Fashion
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Behind the Vapor
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