Archive for ‘May, 2007’

Student Diagnosed With Measles

After a Boston University student enrolled in summer classes was diagnosed with measles late last week, Student Health Services is requiring summer students to prove they are protected against the highly contagious skin disease by June 5. The infected student was diagnosed after two visits to SHS, and she has the only probable case, said BU spokesman Colin Riley. The student, a 20-year-old woman from India, did not attend any classes and lives off campus in Brookline, where she is being treated, according to the Communications Office of the Boston Public Health Commission.

Graduates Urged to Be Energy-Conscious

As the Boston University Class of 2007 graduates stood at the brink of entering a new chapter in their lives, they were urged by a Nobel-winning physicist to be more energy-conscious to ease the effects of global warming yesterday at the 134th Commencement on a drenched Nickerson Field. “I truly believe that this problem is the single-most important problem that science and technology must solve in the coming decades,” said Commencement speaker Steven Chu, a 1997 Noble Peace Prize winner in physics and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — the oldest of the U.S. Energy Department’s National Laboratories.

Emergency-Response Communications to Reach Phones

Boston University will be prepared to contact almost all students and staff in emergencies this fall with a mass communications system that uses text messaging, voicemail and email, President Robert Brown announced Wednesday in an email sent to the community. The “Send Word Now” system — which uses all three message types — was introduced to the campus this year to some extent, but it will be developed more over the summer, Brown said in the email.

COM Graduate Killed in Iraq

The son of a Boston University professor who had publicly criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the war was killed in Iraq by an explosive device Sunday, according to the U.S. Defense Department. 1st Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, a 2003 College of Communication graduate, was one of five killed in the attack, and 11 more were wounded, according to the report.

BU Names First Female Dean of CAS

Boston University named its first female dean of the College of Arts and Sciences on Wednesday, ending a search that began almost a year ago to replace Jeffrey Henderson, who has headed BU’s largest school since July 2002. The new dean, Virginia Sapiro, had been the vice provost for teaching and learning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the first woman to serve as CAS dean in the college’s 134-year history. She will begin her tenure July 1.