BU picks a new president

By adamg on Wed, 10/04/2023 - 9:27pm

BU Today reports the selection of Melissa Gilliam, executive vice president and provost at Ohio State University as the replacement for Robert Brown, who retired as president earlier this year.

In addition to being a leader of the Ohio school, Gilliam is also a research scientist and a physician.

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Comments

Will she evict John Silber

By Rob on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 2:48am.

Will she evict John Silber from his legacy office space as her first official act?

That's the way these things are done, right?

I think he's allowed to keep it

By BostonDog on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 6:28am.

A coffin is the ultimate legacy office.

Don't count on it - remember

By Rob on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 9:42am.

Don't count on it - remember Cardinal O'Connell

tOSU?

By Matt on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 3:55am.

Hopefully she can improve the football program. They haven’t won a game in nearly twenty years.

More Than 25

By John Costello on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 8:56am.

Will B-Tuff be revived?

The groundswell on campus to keep BU football going in the mid-90's was about as big as a 0.7 Richter scale earthquake. Lots of rumbling from alumni and then nothing.

I think the old baseball field is the parking garage behind Planned Parenthood.

Bring back the Braves!

By necturus on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 5:22pm.

Atlanta's a boring place compared to Boston.

A BU professor

By AP on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 10:58am.

is the person who discovered that repeat hits to the head causes Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. I do not think a football program is feasible any longer.

I personally am curious as to when colleges with existing football/hockey teams realize that they cannot have a football or hockey team destroying the brains of their students on one hand, while bragging about the innovations their shiny new neuroscience departments are making on the other.