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Category: Professor Voices
National Backpack Awareness Day
September 15, 2010 at 8:00 am
Today, September 15th, marks the 10th Anniversary of National Backpack Awareness Day sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) . Professor Karen Jacobs of Sargent College is commemorating this occasion with a family style initiative from 12:30-2 PM, at St. Mary of the Assumption Rectory School, in Brookline. There, along with 49 BU entry-level occupational […]
Looking toward midterm elections
September 14, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Political science professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,” gives his outlook on the midterm elections. “Maybe the Tea Party is the Democrats’ last hope.” Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, gkwilson@bu.edu
Lehman Brothers’ collapse
September 14, 2010 at 12:24 pm
September 15th marks the 2nd anniverary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse. Mark Williams, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, is the author of “Uncontrolled Risk.” He is Executive-in-Residence/Master Lecturer in the School of Management. “It has been two years since Lehman Brothers fell and almost brought down the entire financial system. Despite the financial pain uncorked […]
New Basel III rules decided
September 13, 2010 at 11:07 am
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced new rules in hopes of making the global banking industry safer. Will the new rules work? LAW professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, gives his view on the impact of the new […]
Poll shows GOP gaining on Dems
September 7, 2010 at 12:34 pm
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows the GOP gaining on Democrats heading into the midterm elections. Political Science professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,” offers his view. ” Obama is the victim of two totally unrealistic expectations, one of which he encouraged himself. One is that the U.S. economy could […]
Joan Salge Blake and Hardin Coleman talk about health & nutrition education and healthy school lunches
September 1, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Registered Dietitian and Sargent Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake and School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman joined us this morning on UStream for a live chat about the importance of healthy school lunches. They also talked about the importance of health and nutrition education. You can view the full chat below:
An analysis of President Obama’s Iraq Address
September 1, 2010 at 10:56 am
President Obama spoke from the Oval Office on Tuesday night declaring “it’s time to turn the page” on the seven-year combat mission in Iraq. International Relations professor William Keylor gave his analysis of the president’s speech in an interview on NECN saying “This war is coming to an end not with a bang, but with […]
SED’s Scott Seider discusses Shelter
September 1, 2010 at 8:00 am
Seider’s new book Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless was released today. Here is what he had to say:
