Bostonia: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University

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Why We
Are Fat

A biochemist says the obesity epidemic is not just
about calories. It could be the chemicals.| Feature Article

Squeezebox Diaspora Tracking the spread of accordion music worldwide

Revisiting Auto Row BU buildings tell tales of Boston’s old Auto Mile

Change of Venue From Boston prosecutor to Hollywood writer. And back.

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Web Exclusives

Teaching Doctors How to Close Life’s Last Door

Video | February 13, 2012

MED’s end-of-life curriculum: science, humanity—and house calls

What the Dickens?

Full Article | February 13, 2012

CGS Dickens expert on being a rock star for 200 years

Little Rock at Center of Big Controversy

Full Article | February 13, 2012

CAS geologist shakes up field of geology

Sh*t Nobody Says at BU

Video | February 13, 2012

Things you think, but wouldn’t be caught dead saying

Reefer Madness

Full Article | February 13, 2012

SMG prof: workers can be fired for using legal medical marijuana

BUniverse Videos

Exploring Mexico’s Gardens in All Their Mystery

Getting Hip: Babies, Brains and Bipedality in Human Pelvic Evolution

WHO Controls the Future of Disease: Agroecology, Hydropower, and Malaria

Alumni Events | Or click here for just campus events

Boston Young Alumni Networking Night
February 23, 2012
Join your fellow Boston University young alumni for our annual networking night at Felt in Boston. Make new contacts, do some face-to-face networking, and perfect your 30-second pitch.

The Threepenny Opera
February 23, 2012
Join the BU Alumni Network of Greater New York and Marvell Reperatory Theater for its Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Bring your friends and fellow alumni for an insider’s look at how four BU alumni breathe life into this stage classic.

Global Day of Service 2012
April 14, 2012
Join students, faculty, staff, friends, family, and fellow alumni at sites around the world to continue BU’s proud history of service.

Alumni Community Groups

Meet new people or reconnect with old classmates by joining a BU alumni group. Some of the most popular groups:

Alumni Notes | Or click here to submit a note

Alyson Sheppard (COM’08) of Brooklyn, N.Y., was recently promoted to associate research editor at Popular Mechanics magazine.

Cara (Mistal) Bertrand (SED’99,’04) of Sturbridge, Mass., was a finalist for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Her young adult manuscript, Lost in Thought, focuses on a group of students who are psychically gifted.

Ellen Harvey (CFA’88) of New York, N.Y., costars with Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Ellen was a 2011 Helen Hayes Award nominee for her performance as Miss Andrew in Mary Poppins at the Kennedy Center.

Michael Landa (ENG’88) of Austin, Tex., is the founder and CEO of Nulo, a company that provides nutritional dog and cat foods. Michael also owns the Los Angeles-based The Pet Staff, a professional pet service company.