Small firms which want to profit from doing good
BBC
Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Dr Bill Rodriguez has three big, audacious goals…
Expert quote:
“It requires one to be fairly creative in coming up with a sound business model.”
Mechanics: The forces of cancer
Nature
Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Hippocrates first used the term ‘carcinoma’ to describe cancerous tumours more than 2,000 years ago…
A rallying cry for development
The Express Tribune
By Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Amidst the noise and the sound bites, the political posturing and the delicate diplomacy in New York in late September at the annual session of the General Assembly, there were also nuggets of reflection and introspection about the future of the most vulnerable people…
Closing the Capacity Gap in Saving Lives at Birth
Huffington Post
By Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
While the rate of infant and maternal mortality from preventable causes has continued to decline over the last several years, the current statistics are still mind-numbing…
BU professor gets grant for counterfeit drug detector
Mass High Tech
Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Muhammad Zaman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, is leading a team that’s developing an inexpensive test for developing countries to determine if medicines are ineffective due to counterfeiting or improper storage…
Innovations in higher education teaching
The Express Tribune
By Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Discussion of innovation in higher education in Pakistan has become stale and myopic…
One Professor Goes Further For Feedback
WBUR “Here & Now”
Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Teacher evaluations are a hot topic in education. Students at virtually every college and university in America are asked to evaluate their professors at the end of each semester, and students often look to websites such as ratemyprofessor.com before choosing a class…
Feedback From Students Becomes a Campus Staple, but Some Go Further
New York Times
Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Every other Monday, right before class ends, Muhammad Zaman, a Boston University biomedical engineering professor, hands out a one-page form asking students to anonymously rate him and the course on a scale of one to five…
Of Jim Yong Kim, Innovation and the World Bank
Huffington Post
By Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
I am not a banker, a politician, a diplomat or an economist…
Make Development Part of the Equation
Huffington Post
By Muhammad Zaman, College of Engineering
Engineers make models of processes and systems, write equations to describe them and work tirelessly make the best possible products governed by those equations…
