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96-444: The Mugar Memorial Library is the primary library for study, teaching, and research in the humanities and social sciences for Boston University . It was opened in 1966. Stephen P. Mugar , an Armenian immigrant who was successful in the grocery business, provided the naming gift to commemorate his parents. Mugar's entrance carries an inscription from Stephen honoring his parents. In coming to America from Armenia my parents opened

192-528: A $ 1 billion fundraising campaign was launched, its first comprehensive campaign, emphasizing financial aid, faculty support, research, and facility improvements. In 2016, the campaign goal was reached. The board of trustees voted to raise the goal to $ 1.5 billion and extend through 2019. The campaign has funded 74 new faculty positions, including 49 named full professorships and 25 Career Development Professorships. The campaign concluded in September 2019, raising

288-637: A PhD to a woman, when classics scholar Helen Magill White earned hers with a thesis on "The Greek Drama". Then in 1878 Anna Oliver became the first woman to receive a degree in theology in the United States, but the Methodist Church would not ordain her. Lelia J. Robinson , who graduated from the university's law school in 1881, became the first woman admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. Solomon Carter Fuller , who graduated from

384-507: A brand new student residence on the Medical Campus. In May 2024, Boston University removed Myles Standish's name from the building. It is now referred to by its address, 610 Beacon Street. In 2019, Boston University expanded its financial aid program so that it would "meet the full need for all domestic students who qualify for financial aid," starting in fall 2020. In September 2022, Robert A. Brown announced he will step down at

480-524: A capacity of 1200 people. Other citizens of Concord covered the remodeling costs. One stipulation of the invitation was that the Institute remain in Concord for at least 20 years. The charter issued by New Hampshire designated the school the " Methodist General Biblical Institute ", but it was commonly called the "Concord Biblical Institute". With the agreed twenty years coming to a close, the trustees of

576-447: A charter for a university by the name of "Boston University". These trustees were successful Boston businessmen and Methodist laymen, with a history of involvement in educational enterprises, and they became the founders of Boston University. They were Isaac Rich (1801–1872), Lee Claflin (1791–1871), and Jacob Sleeper (1802–1889), for whom Boston University's three West Campus dormitories were later named. Lee Claflin's son, William ,

672-438: A commuter school, but the university now guarantees the option of on-campus housing for four years for all undergraduate students. Currently, 76 percent of the undergraduate population lives on campus. Boston University requires that all students living in dormitories be enrolled in a year-long meal plan with several combinations of meals and dining points which can be used as cash in on-campus facilities. Atlas An atlas

768-403: A description of the creation and form of the whole universe, not simply as a collection of maps. The volume that was published posthumously one year after his death is a wide-ranging text but, as the editions evolved, it became simply a collection of maps and it is in that sense that the word was used from the middle of the 17th century. The neologism coined by Mercator was a mark of his respect for

864-561: A labor contract while the clerical workers and librarians were seeking union recognition. The strike ended by mid-April under terms favorable to the employees. On November 27, 1979, the committee to Defend Iranian Students—composed of Iranian students, Youths Against Foreign Fascism and the Revolutionary Communist Party—held a demonstration at the George Sherman Union against the deposed Shah of Iran and

960-443: A second search to fill the presidential position, culminating with the inauguration of Robert A. Brown as the university's 10th president on April 27, 2006. ( Aram Chobanian , who had served as president ad interim during most of the second search, was formally recognized as the 9th president in 2005.) In the wake of this fiasco, several actions were taken to improve the image projected to potential presidential candidates as well as

1056-406: A student and two officers. Contrary to student claims of a peaceful protest, Silber said, "Civilization doesn't abdicate in face of barbarism. Those students or nonstudents who deliberately seek violent confrontation and refuse all efforts at peaceful resolution of issues must expect society to use its police power in its own defense." In response to Silber's decision of a forceful police intervention,

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1152-427: A total of $ 1.85 billion over seven years. In February 2015, the faculty adopted an open-access policy to make its scholarship publicly accessible online. The Charles River and Medical Campuses have undergone physical transformations since 2006, from new buildings and playing fields to dormitory renovations. The campus has seen the addition of a 26-floor student residence at 33 Harry Agganis Way, nicknamed StuVi2 ,

1248-635: Is Rhett the Boston Terrier. The Boston University Terriers compete in the NCAA Division I . Among its alumni and current or past faculty, the university counts 9 Nobel Laureates, 23 Pulitzer Prize winners, 10 Rhodes Scholars , 6 Marshall Scholars , 14 Academy Award winners, 11 Emmy Award winners, and 9 Tony Award winners. BU also has 3 MacArthur Fellows and Fulbright Scholars among its past and present graduates and faculty. In 1876, BU professor Alexander Graham Bell invented

1344-717: Is a private research university in Boston , Massachusetts , United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont . It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities and the Boston Consortium for Higher Education. The university is nonsectarian , though it retains its historical affiliation with

1440-427: Is a collection of maps ; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a continent or region of Earth . Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today, many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographical features and political boundaries , many atlases often feature geopolitical , social, religious , and economic statistics . They also have information about

1536-488: Is awarded to the collection of maps Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by the Brabantian cartographer Abraham Ortelius printed in 1570. Atlases published nowadays are quite different from those published in the 16th–19th centuries. Unlike today, most atlases were not bound and ready for the customer to buy, but their possible components were shelved separately. The client could select the contents to their liking, and have

1632-632: Is possible at the BU Bridge, which also allows street traffic to cross from the Boston side to the Cambridge side of the Charles River. As a result of its continual expansion, the Charles River campus contains an array of architecturally diverse buildings. The College of Arts and Sciences, Marsh Chapel, and the School of Theology buildings are the university's most recognizable, and were built in

1728-537: Is the primary library resource for study, teaching, and research in the sciences and engineering on Boston University's Charles River Campus. The Science and Engineering Library supports the Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth & Environment, Mathematics & Statistics, and Physics departments, the College of Engineering, and associated research labs and centers. In addition to extensive holdings,

1824-727: The BU Law Tower , the George Sherman Union , and the Mugar Memorial Library were constructed in the Brutalist style, a departure from the school's traditional architecture. The College of Engineering and College of Communication were housed in a former stable building and auto-show room, respectively. Besides his efforts to expand the university into a rival for Greater Boston's more prestigious academic institutions, such as Harvard University and

1920-641: The Boston University Medical Campus is located in Boston's South End neighborhood. The Fenway campus houses the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, formerly Wheelock College, which merged with BU in 2018. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". BU athletic teams compete in the Patriot League and Hockey East conferences, and their mascot

2016-470: The Boylston Street and Copley Square area, before building its Charles River Campus in the 1930s. After receiving a year's salary advance to allow him to pursue his research in 1875, Alexander Graham Bell , then a professor at the school, invented the telephone in a Boston University laboratory. In 1876, Borden Parker Bowne was appointed professor of philosophy. Bowne, an important figure in

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2112-639: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (both in Cambridge across the Charles River from the BU campus), Case involved himself in the start of the student/societal upheavals that came to characterize the 1960s. When a mini-squabble over editorial policy at college radio WBUR-FM – whose offices were under a tall radio antenna mast in front of the School of Public Relations and Communications (later College of Communications) – started growing in

2208-599: The Photonics Center , Life Science and Engineering Building, The Student Village (which includes the FitRec Center and Agganis Arena ), and the Questrom School of Business . All these buildings were built in brick, a few with a substantial amount of brownstone. Boston University converted the old Nickelodeon Cinemas complex into College of Engineering labs and offices. In 2016, the university sold

2304-579: The United Methodist Church . The university has more than 4,000 faculty members, nearly 38,000 students, and is one of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees , master's degrees , doctorates , and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through 17 schools and colleges on three urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway–Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while

2400-688: The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ), African-American students conducted a sit-in and locked BU President Arland F. Christ-Janer out of his office for 12 hours. Umoja, BU's Black Student Union, put forward ten demands to Christ-Janer and got nine of them approved that included the creation of a Martin Luther King Chair of Social Ethics, expansion of African-American library resources and tutoring services, opening an "Afro-American coordinating center," admission and selection of more Black students and faculty. No disciplinary action

2496-585: The telephone in a BU lab. Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont , in 1839, and was chartered with the name "Boston University" by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869. The university organized formal centennial observances both in 1939 and 1969. One or the other, or both dates may appear on various official seals used by different schools of

2592-471: The $ 400 rise in tuition and $ 150 rise in housing charges declared by the trustees on March 7. The protest interrupted a board of trustees conference. While John Silber and Arthur G. B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustees, were negotiating with student government representatives to discuss the matter further on a separate occasion, the protesters marched into the building from two entrances, effectively trapping 40 trustees and 10 university administrators in

2688-566: The 20th century. The Contemporary Collection constitutes the majority of the Archives's holdings, and include former BU professor and prolific author Isaac Asimov 's papers, which fill 464 boxes on 232 feet (71 m) of shelf space, as well as the archives of Bette Davis , Gene Kelly , Adele Astaire , Martin Luther King Jr. , David B. Zilberman and many other notable individuals from the twentieth century. Also included are original manuscripts and papers of American spy novelist Dan Sherman and

2784-532: The Boston University community. In addition to library services such as circulation, reference, interlibrary loan , reserves and research data management , the library also has an Information Services and Technology Help Desk and provides printing, scanning , and copying services. Mugar provides access to a variety of academic databases, eJournals , eBooks , and print resources. These research materials are developed by librarians in collaboration with

2880-766: The Center for Remote Sensing. The Stone Science Library's non-circulating holdings include some 9,700 books and journals, 5,000 maps, and the Will Myers Aerial Photograph Archive, among many other resources. The main focus of the collections is on archaeological and remote sensing materials. The center was known as the Special Collections when created in 1963. It was renamed to Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center in 2003 to honor its founder, Howard Bernard Gotlieb . The University's rare book and manuscript collections are held in

2976-782: The Concord Biblical Institute purchased 30 acres (120,000 m ) on Aspinwall Hill in Brookline, Massachusetts , as a possible relocation site. The institute moved in 1867 to 23 Pinkney Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, and received a Massachusetts Charter as the " Boston Theological Seminary ". In 1869, three trustees of the Boston Theological Institute obtained from the Massachusetts Legislature

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3072-728: The Dahod Family Alumni Center (formerly The Castle). Construction of the brick and glass Yawkey Center for Student Services was designed to follow the requirements of the Bay State Road historic district. Use of glass and steel for new construction on Commonwealth Avenue includes the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, which opened in 2017, and the 19-story Center for Computing & Data Sciences , which opened in 2022. The ceremonial opening on December 8, 2022,

3168-473: The Faculty State conducted a vote on Silber's resignation which could not pass due to a "vote of 140–25 with 32 abstentions." As a result of this failed motion, Peter P. Gabriel resigned his position as the dean of Boston University's School of Management in protest of Silber's presidency and his "counterproductive" leadership. Silber's support of military recruitment on campus, which he pushed to make

3264-797: The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, formerly called the Twentieth Century Archives. The Research Center is housed on the fifth floor of the Mugar Library (accessible by the South elevator) and is open to the public for research and viewing. The Center's reception area also includes a large display area where examples of its holdings are on display. There is also a reading room for studying its materials. Research scholars must make appointments at least two days in advance to use papers from

3360-525: The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, including an exhibit of Napoleon Bonaparte 's death mask . The security booth is also located on the 1st floor near the building exit. The second floor houses the Music Library , with a diverse collection of works ranging from classical, jazz, and rock, to contemporary artists. Musical scores are included in the collection as are records, CDs, cassettes and 8-track tapes. The Arthur Fiedler Reading Room, and

3456-632: The Krasker Film and Video services, current periodicals, microfilm and microfiche readers and printers, and a study area. The ground floor contains the Research Center, IT Help Center, Print Center, Circulation, Reserves, and the Information Commons. Computer access is restricted to members of the Boston University community; however, guests can be provided access by the staff. The ground floor also houses rotating exhibits from

3552-797: The Library holds a complete copy of Albert Einstein 's papers. The originals are at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ; complete copies can only be found at Boston University , Princeton University , and at the California Institute of Technology , where the Einstein Papers Project is now located. The Samuel M. Fineman Law Library and the Pappas Law Library (765 Commonwealth Avenue) provide scholarly resources, collections, and services to support

3648-715: The Listening Room are located on this floor. The third floor contains the PAL Study Lounge as well as offices for many administrative functions of the Library. Technical services are on this floor, as are many of the librarian offices. The Martin Luther King Jr. reading room, offering some of the work of Boston University's most famous alumnus, is also located on the third floor. The fourth floor contains study carrels for users with disabilities. Classics, history, linguistics, politics, geography, sports, philosophy, religion, education, law, and photography are all on

3744-452: The Mugar Library, BU Law School, and Warren Towers , all of which were built in the brutalist style of architecture. The Metcalf Science Center for Science and Engineering , constructed in 1983, might more accurately be described as Structural Expressionism . Morse Auditorium , adjacent, stands in stark architectural contrast, as it was originally constructed as a Jewish synagogue . The most recent architectural additions to BU's campus are

3840-815: The New Balance Playing Field, the Yawkey Center for Student Services, the Alan and Sherry Leventhal Center, the Law tower and Redstone annex, the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, and the Joan and Edgar Booth Theatre, which opened in fall 2017. The construction of the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering

3936-469: The Titan Atlas , the "King of Mauretania", whom he considered to be the first great geographer. The first work that contained systematically arranged maps of uniform size representing the first modern atlas was prepared by Italian cartographer Pietro Coppo in the early 16th century; however, it was not published at that time, so it is conventionally not considered the first atlas. Rather, that title

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4032-617: The US Government's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that was a funder of the lab. The university's main Charles River Campus follows Commonwealth Avenue and the Green Line , beginning near Kenmore Square and continuing for over a mile and a half to its end near the border of Boston's Allston neighborhood. The Boston University Bridge over the Charles River into Cambridge represents

4128-485: The academic disciplines of religion, philosophy, sociology, including contemporary Jewish life and culture. Mugar Library was designed by the Cambridge firm of Sert, Jackson & Gourley led by Josep Lluís Sert . It was part of a master plan for the Charles River Campus that also included the George Sherman Union and the Law Tower. In front of Mugar Memorial Library and adjacent to the nearby George Sherman Union ,

4224-459: The application. In July 2021, BU announced faculty and staff will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the fall 2022 semester. This comes after a vaccine requirement for all students, which was announced in April. In October 2022, Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories conducted research in a Biosafety Level 3 lab that modified the original strain of

4320-523: The building for over thirty minutes. Twenty officers from the Boston University Police Department had to disperse the crowd from the stairwells. The protest resulted in the arrest of 19 year old Joshua Grossman, while another student and two BUPD officers were taken to hospitals. On April 5, 1979, several hundred faculty members, as well as clerical workers and librarians, went on strike . The faculty members were seeking

4416-514: The building that housed the Huntington Theatre Company and constructed the Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center to consolidate the theater program on campus. BU has earned several historic preservation awards with recent extensive building renovation projects, such as the School of Law tower, the Alan & Sherry Leventhal Center, 610 Beacon Street (formerly Myles Standish Hall ), and

4512-511: The central area (for example, Geographers' A-Z Map Company 's A–Z atlas of London is 1:22,000 for Greater London and 1:11,000 for Central London ). A travel atlas may also be referred to as a road map . A desk atlas is made similar to a reference book . It may be in hardback or paperback form. There are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the Solar System . Atlases of anatomy exist, mapping out organs of

4608-524: The character of the campus changed significantly, as he sought to change the school into a national research university. The campus tripled in size to 45 acres (180,000 m ), and added 68 new buildings before Case retired in 1967. The first large dorms, Claflin, Rich and Sleeper Halls in West Campus were built, and in 1965 construction began on 700 Commonwealth Avenue , later named Warren Towers , designed to house 1800 students. Between 1961 and 1966,

4704-641: The collections. The Archives also maintain a large public display area on the first floor of the Mugar library, displaying highlighted samples from the collections of dozens of notable persons from the 20th century and beyond. Smaller display cases scattered throughout the Mugar Library exhibit selections from the Archives. The Contemporary Collection was established starting in 1963, and includes personal papers and artifacts owned by well-known authors, musicians, actors, and other artists, as well as politicians, scientists, and other celebrities primarily but not limited to

4800-506: The core of the city of Boston, which was appraised at more than $ 1.5 million. Kilgore describes this as the largest single donation to an American college or university as of that time. By December, however, the Great Boston Fire of 1872 had destroyed all but one of the buildings Rich had left to the university, and the insurance companies with which they had been insured were bankrupt . The value of his estate, when turned over to

4896-491: The courtyard provides a space for students to congregate and study. Many benches flank the Courtyard and the area is the scene of assiduous gardening, with a great deal of cultivation taking place throughout the spring and summer. The courtyard is most often used in the spring and summer. The area offers a full view of Commonwealth Avenue as well as an adjacent courtyard where bicycle storage is available. The basement contains

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4992-672: The deportation of Iranian students from the US. "To the Iranian people, that man (the shah) is Adolf Hitler," students protested. "The Shah Must Face the Wrath of the People." This was met with chants of "God Bless America" from the opposing group. Twenty policemen broke up the confronting parties though no arrests were made. Following the trustees' push for the resignation of the university's eighth president, Jon Westling, they voted unanimously to offer

5088-609: The dividing line between Main Campus, where most schools and classroom buildings are concentrated, and West Campus , home to several athletic facilities and playing fields, the large West Campus dorm, and the new John Hancock Student Village complex. The main campus buildings of BU are separated from the Charles River Esplanade parkland and the Paul Dudley White Bike Path along the banks of

5184-415: The door of Freedom to me. America's public schools & libraries opened my eyes to the unlimited opportunity in this great land, as well as the privileges and obligations of citizenship. May this library serve over the years as a similar inspiration to all who use it. In memory of my father and mother Sarkis and Vosgitel Mugar. By their grateful son – Stephen P. Mugar – Mugar is home to many services for

5280-465: The end of the 2022–2023 academic year. Brown began his presidency in September 2005, and his contract was set to run through 2025. Although Brown chose to end his presidency, he will resume teaching at the university. On August 1, 2023, Kenneth W. Freeman started serving as president ad interim. In October 2023, Melissa Gilliam was named the incoming president, starting her term on July 1, 2024. On July 1, 2024, Melissa Gilliam began her tenure as

5376-457: The exception of the School of Theology) religion. Boston Theological Institute was absorbed into Boston University in 1871 as the BU School of Theology . On January 13, 1872, Isaac Rich died, leaving the vast bulk of his estate to a trust that would go to Boston University after ten years of growth while the university was organized. Most of this bequest consisted of real estate throughout

5472-587: The faculty and students in Boston University's Questrom School of Business. The Pardee Management Library is located on the second and third floors of the Rafik B. Hariri Building at 595 Commonwealth Avenue, and provides an extensive collection of print and electronic resources in business, management, and related subjects. In addition to its holdings, the Pardee Library offers reference services, library classes, and individual consultations. The Music Library on

5568-543: The faculty, staff, and students of Boston University Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and the Boston Medical Center. The library is located at 80 East Concord Street, in the BU Medical Campus in the South End district of Boston. The collections of the School of Theology (745 Commonwealth Avenue) are developed in concert with those of Mugar Memorial Library. The School of Theology library concentrates on theology, Bible, church history, ministry, and historic Judaism, while Mugar collects in comparative religion and

5664-404: The faculty, staff, and students of Boston University. The African Studies Library (ASL) was founded in 1953 and is located on the sixth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library, accessible by the North elevator . Its primary function is to support Boston University's African Studies Center and all undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research on Africa. Students and faculty from area institutions and

5760-474: The field, current journals, and a comprehensive collection of sky atlases and maps. The Astronomy Library supports BU's astronomy and astrophysics programs as well as research conducted by faculty and staff of the Astronomy Department, the Center for Space Physics, and the Institute for Astrophysical Research. The Frederick S. Pardee Management Library (595 Commonwealth Avenue, third floor), named for its benefactor , provides resources and services supporting

5856-428: The fourth floor. The fourth floor also contains the library staff lounge. The fifth floor contains study carrels and contains collections related to language and literature. The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is also located on this level, but is not directly accessible from the main library stacks. The sixth floor houses the African Studies Library . Boston University Boston University ( BU )

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5952-400: The functioning of the board itself. In 2012, the university was invited to join the Association of American Universities , comprising 66 leading research universities in the United States and Canada. BU, one of four universities at the time invited to join the group since 2000, became the 62nd member. In the Boston area, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and Brandeis are also members. That same year,

6048-416: The general public are welcome to consult the collections. In addition to the circulating Africana collections, the ASL also houses several special collections. The staff provides a variety of services including reference assistance, library orientation and instruction, and individual consultations. The Michael D. Papagiannis Astronomy Library (725 Commonwealth Avenue), collection includes books in all areas of

6144-433: The history of American religious thought, was an American Christian philosopher and theologian in the Methodist tradition. He is known for his contributions to personalism , a philosophical branch of liberal theology . The movement he led is often referred to as Boston Personalism . The university continued its tradition of openness in this period. In 1877, Boston University became the first American university to award

6240-443: The late-1930s and 1940s in collegiate gothic style. A sizable amount of the campus is traditional Boston brownstone , especially at Bay State Road and South Campus, where BU has acquired almost every townhouse those areas offer. The buildings are primarily dormitories, but many also serve as various institutes as well as department offices. From the 1960s through the 1980s, several contemporary buildings were constructed, including

6336-400: The library provides reference assistance, group instruction, and access—by-request to early volumes of leading journals. The Stone Science Library (675 Commonwealth Avenue) brings together books, journals, atlases , maps, photographs, and more in support of the Archaeology, Earth & Environment, and Earth Science and Geology departments, as well as the Center for Archaeological Studies, and

6432-412: The long-time appearance of the busy traffic hub. In September 2021, BU completed a $ 115 million project to renovate and expand the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The project expanded clinical spaces, added a simulation learning center, and improved collaborative spaces for students. Boston University's housing system is the nation's 10th largest among four-year colleges. BU was originally

6528-403: The map and places in it. The use of the word "atlas" in a geographical context dates from 1595 when the German-Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator published Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura ("Atlas or cosmographical meditations upon the creation of the universe and the universe as created"). This title provides Mercator's definition of the word as

6624-460: The maps coloured/gilded or not. The atlas was then bound. Thus, early printed atlases with the same title page can be different in contents. States began producing national atlases in the 19th century. A travel atlas is made for easy use during travel, and often has spiral bindings, so it may be folded flat. National atlases in Europe are typically printed at a scale of 1:250,000 to 1:500,000; city atlases are 1:20,000 to 1:25,000, doubling for

6720-425: The nearby Charles River, by heavily trafficked Storrow Drive , a high-speed limited-access major roadway connecting downtown Boston to its western suburbs. The separation occurred in the late 1920s, when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts seized land by eminent domain for the construction of the new roadway along the riverbank. A narrow strip of grassy lawn between BU academic buildings lining Commonwealth Avenue and

6816-491: The next day. The lab uses eight robots to process up to 6,000 tests per day. A contact tracing team is part of the process to contain infections on campus. BU also started a new website "Back2BU" to provide students with the latest information on reopening. The results of the tests were published on BU's public COVID-19 Testing Data Dashboard. BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) has been working with live coronavirus samples since March 2020, and—at

6912-407: The original strain. Marc Lipsitch of Harvard, however, argued "these are unquestionably gain-of-function experiments. As many have noted, this is a very broad term encompassing many harmless and some potentially dangerous experiments. GOF is a scientific technique, not an epithet." While the BU researchers gained internal research and Boston government approvals for the research, they failed to notify

7008-576: The physical campus, constructing the Photonics Center for the study of light, a new building for the School of Management, and the Life Science and Engineering Building for interdisciplinary research, among other projects. Campus expansion continued in the 2000s with the construction of new dormitories and the Agganis Arena . To protest the poor condition of Boston University's African-American curriculum, on April 25, 1968 (three weeks after

7104-581: The preceding year, Boston University purchased the former Wheelock College , which is now referred to as the Boston University Fenway Campus (although it is actually located in the adjacent neighborhood of Longwood ). As of 2019 , BU has sold or leased to real estate developers several building sites it owned in Kenmore Square next to its campus. Large multistory buildings are being constructed there, which will transform

7200-665: The presidency of John R. Silber . In 1972, student protests rose against the university administration's endorsement of Marine Corps recruitment on campus which faced significant opposition from the Student Democratic Society . On March 27, 1972, 50 police officers in "riot gear" defused a demonstration of 150 protesters at 195 Bay State Road, the BU Placement Office, where Marine recruiters were holding student interviews. A few protesters were arrested while some sustained minor injuries, including

7296-436: The presidency of the university to Daniel S. Goldin , former administrator of NASA under presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Goldin was set to take over the job on November 1, 2003, and be officially inaugurated on November 17, though the deal collapsed in the week leading up to his arrival in Boston. The university eventually terminated Goldin's contract at a cost of $ 1.8 million and initiated

7392-437: The research needs of the students and faculty at Boston University School of Law as well as other legal researchers at Boston University. The law library contains federal and state primary legal materials; major serials, treatises, and other secondary materials; legal documents and reports; and international law materials. The Alumni Medical Library serves as the library and knowledge-based literature and information provider to

7488-671: The same again for many another of the mystery/espionage genre. In addition, the Historical Collection includes papers and artifacts from before the 20th century. The History of Nursing Collection, the official BU Archives, and a Rare Book Collection comprise the remainder of the Archive holdings. Because the Einstein Papers Project was formerly located at Boston University Center for Einstein Studies ,

7584-618: The school bought the 15 acres (61,000 m ) of land that had been reclaimed from the river by the Riverfront Improvement Association. Plans for a riverside quadrangle with a Gothic Revival administrative tower modeled on the "Old Boston Stump" in Boston , England were scaled back in the late 1920s when the State Metropolitan District Commission used eminent domain to seize riverfront land for Storrow Drive . Murlin

7680-766: The second floor of Mugar Library includes books, scores, periodicals, recordings, and videos. The staff supports teaching, research, and exploration through the collection, and offers additional services including course building, reserves, and instructional sessions. The Pickering Educational Resources Library (2 Silber Way, basement level) supports Boston University's Wheelock College of Education & Human Development faculty and students through research services, instruction, and collection development. The great majority of education collections are available electronically. Pickering holds books on educational practice, books for children and young adults, and pre-K–12 educational kits. The Science and Engineering Library (38 Cummington Mall)

7776-488: The spring of 1964, Case persuaded university trustees that the university should take over the widely-heard radio station (now a major outlet for National Public Radio and still a BU-owned broadcast facility). The trustees approved the firing of student managers and clamped down on programming and editorial policy, which had been led by Jim Thistle, later a major force in Boston's broadcast news milieu. The on-campus political dispute between Case's conservative administration and

7872-537: The suddenly active and mostly liberal student body led to other disputes over BU student print publications, such as the B.U. News and the Scarlet , a fraternity association newspaper. The Presidency of John Silber also saw much expansion of the campus and programs. In the late 1970s, the Lahey Clinic vacated its building at 605 Commonwealth Avenue and moved to Burlington, Massachusetts . The vacated building

7968-484: The time—was the only New England lab to have live samples. In August 2020, BU filed a service mark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to secure the phrase "F*ck It Won't Cut It" for a student-led COVID-19 safety program on campus. The slogan is meant to promote "safe and smart actions and behaviors for college and university students in a COVID-19 environment", according to

8064-482: The torrent of traffic on Storrow Drive has been humorously dubbed "BU Beach", because it is a favorite hangout for sunbathing in good weather. The lounging students are protected from traffic incursions by a raised earthen berm , which also muffles the traffic noise to a dull roar. To protect pedestrians from vehicular collisions, Storrow Drive is enclosed by fencing, with pedestrian bridges allowing safe crossings at Silber Way and at Marsh Chapel. An additional crossing

8160-553: The university eligible for Federal grants, caused other demonstrations. On December 5, 1972, fifteen BU Student Government officers started a three-day hunger strike at Marsh Chapel demanding Silber "to file a lawsuit against the Federal government challenging the constitutionality of the Herbert Amendment." On March 16, 1978, about 900 Boston University students gathered at the George Sherman Union to protest against

8256-605: The university in 1882, was half what it had been in 1872. As a result, the university was unable to build its contemplated campus on Aspinwall Hill, and the land was sold piecemeal as development sites. Street names in the area, including Claflin Road, Claflin Path, and University Road, are the only remaining evidence of university ownership in this area. Following the fire, Boston University established its new facilities in buildings scattered throughout Beacon Hill , and later expanded into

8352-710: The university's 11th president. The university closed down due to the COVID-19 and shifted to online learning for the remainder of the semester on March 11, 2020. For the fall 2020 semester, BU offered a hybrid system that allows for students to decide whether to take a remote class or participate in-person. Larger classes would be broken down into smaller groups that rotate between online and in-person sessions. The school started administering its own COVID-19 testing for faculty, staff, and students on July 27, 2020. The new BU Clinical Testing Laboratory has accelerated testing that can give results to students, staff, and faculty by

8448-425: The university's School of Medicine in 1897, became the first black psychiatrist in the United States and would make significant contributions to the study of Alzheimer's disease . Seeking to unify a geographically scattered school and enable it to participate in the development of the city, school president Lemuel Murlin arranged that the school buy the present campus along the Charles River . Between 1920 and 1928,

8544-703: The university. On April 24–25, 1839, a group of Methodist ministers and laymen at the Old Bromfield Street Church in Boston elected to establish a Methodist theological school. Set up in Newbury, Vermont , the school was named the "Newbury Biblical Institute". In 1847, the Congregational Society in Concord, New Hampshire , invited the institute to relocate to Concord and offered a disused Congregational church building with

8640-509: The virus that causes COVID-19 with the spike proteins of the Omicron variant. This resulted in a virus that was more lethal to lab mice than the Omicron variant itself, but less lethal than the original strain. Some medical authorities criticized the research as dangerous " gain of function " research, but others argued that it did not technically count as gain of function research because the modified virus happened not to be quite as lethal as

8736-570: Was covered by publications including Bloomberg , The Boston Globe , and CBS News which praised the building for being the largest carbon-neutral building in Boston and noted its unusual design. A ribbon cutting ceremony was performed by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu , President Robert A. Brown , the associate provost for computing and data sciences Azer Bestavros , dean of Arts & Sciences Stan Sclaroff, BU Board of Trustees chair Ahmass Fakahany , BU provost Jean Morrison , and Boston city councilor Kenzie Bok . In 2018, following negotiations in

8832-490: Was funded by part of BU's largest ever gift, a $ 115 million donation from Rajen Kilachand . The Dahod Family Alumni Center in the renovated BU Castle began in May 2017 and was completed in fall 2018. Development of the university's existing housing stock has included significant renovations to BU's oldest dorm, 610 Beacon Street (formerly Myles Standish Hall ) and Annex, and to Kilachand Hall , formerly known as Shelton Hall, and

8928-492: Was never able to build the new campus, but his successor, Daniel L. Marsh , led a series of fundraising campaigns (interrupted by both the Great Depression and World War II ) that helped Marsh to achieve his dream and to gradually fill in the university's new campus. By spring 1936, the student body included 10,384 men and women. In 1951, Harold C. Case became the school's fifth president and under his direction

9024-594: Was purchased by BU to house the School of Education . After arriving from the University of Texas in 1971, Silber set out to remake the university into a global center for research by recruiting star faculty. Two of his faculty "stars", Elie Wiesel and Derek Walcott , won Nobel Prizes shortly after Silber recruited them. Two others, Saul Bellow and Sheldon Glashow won Nobel Prizes before Silber recruited them. In addition to recruiting new scholars, Silber expanded

9120-424: Was taken against the students who only opened the chains after their demands were met. "There was no surprise, or feeling of victory on the students' parts," said Christ-Janer in response to the sit-in. "They had confidence in their demands, and I had a confidence in them. The university, black and white alike, was the winner." The late twentieth century saw a culmination in student activism at Boston University during

9216-647: Was then Governor of Massachusetts and signed the University Charter on May 26, 1869, after it was passed by the Legislature. As reported by Kathleen Kilgore in her book Transformations, A History of Boston University (see Further reading ), the founders directed the inclusion in the Charter of the following provision, unusual for its time: Every department of the new university was also open to all on an equal footing regardless of sex, race, or (with

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