College of Communication Honors Outstanding Seniors at Blue Chip Awards
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2012 CONTACT: Kira Jastive, 617-358-1240, kjastive@bu.edu Boston University College of Communication Honors Outstanding Seniors at 2012 Blue Chip Awards Fourteen students recognized for achievements, academics and contributions to BU (Boston) - The Boston University College of Communication (COM) honored fourteen outstanding seniors on Thursday, May 17 during COM’s annual... More
Boston University College of Fine Arts Convocation Address: Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy Actor, Photographer, Director, Poet, Philanthropist Boston University College of Fine Arts Commencement Speech May 19, 2012 Thank you, Dean Juarez…… Division Directors Lynne Allen, Robert K. Dodson and Jim Petosa. Faculty, families and, of course, graduates. I think President Brown must have been stunned when he Emailed an invitation asking me to do... More
Boston University PR Award to Connecticut Senior
Contact: Richard Taffe, 617-353-4626, rtaffe@bu.edu (Boston) — Boston University’s College of Communication announced today that Ivellisse Morales of Ansonia, Conn., is the 2012 recipient of the Gerald Powers Public Relations Award, given to a graduating senior who has done outstanding work in the field of public relations. The $2,500 annual award, granted... More
Boston University 139th Commencement Address: Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt Google Chairman Boston University Commencement Speech Nickerson Field May 20, 2012 It’s great to be here on campus. It’s an honor to have been invited. It’s an honor to look out on the next generation of BU Terriers. I’ll give you a quote: “I am a true adorer of life, and... More
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Addresses BU Grads at University’s 139th Commencement Ceremony
Contact: Tom Testa, 617-353-7628, ttesta@bu.edu Colin Riley, 617-353-2240, criley@bu.edu (Boston) – Speaking to over 6,700 Boston University graduates and 20,000 guests at today’s 139th commencement at Nickerson Field, Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, encouraged the class of 2012 to identify and connect as “they shape our times, define the human... More
Boston University 139th Commencement Baccalaureate Address: Chief Judge Sandra L. Lynch
Sandra L. Lynch Chief Judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Boston University Baccalaureate Speech Marsh Chapel May 20, 2012 Thank you, Dean Hill, for such a warm introduction. It is clear Boston University has thrived under President Brown's leadership. Among his other attributes, it is impossible to say "no" to him. After... More
Boston University, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Study Shows First Case Series of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Blast-Exposed Military Service Personnel and Mechanism of Injury in Blast Neurotrauma
Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, gina.digravio@bmc.org (Boston) – Investigators from Boston University (BU) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted by the investigators demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to a... More
Local Researcher, Surgical Oncologist Receives National Award
Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, gina.digravio@bmc.org (Boston) – Boston resident Maureen T. Kavanah, MD, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a surgical oncologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has received the prestigious 2012 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Distinguished Investigator Lifetime Achievement... More
Boston University School of Education Partners with City Year on Scholarship Program
Three City Year participants to be awarded “give a year” scholarship annually CONTACT: Kira Jastive 617-358-1240 or kjastive@bu.edu, Nicole Moro 617-353-3246 or nmoro@bu.edu (Boston) – The Boston University School of Education (SED) today announced that it has partnered with City Year, whose mission is focused on fighting the national dropout crisis, on their... More
Google chairman Eric Schmidt to Deliver Boston University Commencement Address
CONTACT: Kira Jastive 617-358-1240 or kjastive@bu.edu (Boston) – Boston University today announced that Eric E. Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, will deliver the commencement address at Boston University’s 139th graduation ceremonies at BU’s Nickerson Field at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 20. Mr. Schmidt will speak before more than 5,000 graduates and 20,000 guests at... More
Boston University’s Excellence-in-Teaching honors to three professors
Contact: Richard Taffe, 617-353-4626, rtaffe@bu.edu (Boston) — Boston University will bestow its highest teaching award, the 40th Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, to College of Arts and Sciences physics Master Lecturer Andrew G. Duffy, one of nearly 3,500 faculty members. BU also will recognize at Commencement on May 20th... More
BUSM Professor Awarded 2012 Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award by APS
Contact: Gina Orlando, (617) 638-8490, gina.orlando@bmc.org (Boston) - Richard Wainford, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) was selected as the recipient of the 2012 Dean Franklin Young Investigator Award by the American Physiological Society (APS). The APS recognized Dr. Wainford at the Experimental Biology annual... More
BUSM Professor Receives 2012 R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from the ASAM
Contact: Gina Orlando, (617) 638-8490, gina.orlando@bmc.org (Boston) – Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and epidemiology, was selected as the 2012 recipient of the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). The award was presented at the... More
Researchers Find Men More Likely to be Readmitted to the Hospital within 30 Days of Discharge
Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, gina.digravio@bmc.org (Boston)- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that men are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of original discharge as compared to women. The findings, which appear currently online issue of BMJ Open, may lead to interventions... More
BUSM Researchers Identify Genes that Influence Hippocampal Volume
Contact: Jenny Eriksen Leary, 617-638-6841, jenny.eriksen@bmc.org (Boston) – An international team of researchers led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has identified four loci that appear to be associated with decreasing the volume of the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain that plays an important role in... More
Study Finds Cocaine and Heroin Users Who Received Voluntary Testing, Counseling for HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infections in the ED Less Likely to have Unprotected Sex or Sex while High
Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, gina.digravio@bmc.org (Boston) - Voluntary testing and counseling (VT/C) for HIV or sexually transmitted infections (STI) among cocaine and heroin users who were treated in the emergency department (ED), accompanied by referral to drug treatment, was associated with reduction in unprotected sex acts and fewer sex acts while... More
BUSM Researchers Identify Key Regulator of Inflammatory Response
Contact: Jenny Eriksen Leary, 617-638-6841, jenny.eriksen@bmc.org (Boston) – Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a gene that plays a key role in regulating inflammatory response and homeostasis. These findings could help lead to the development of innovative methods to reduce the inflammation associated with cancer, type 2... More
Researchers Derive Purified Lung and Thyroid Progenitors from Embryonic Stem Cells
Contact: Jenny Eriksen Leary, 617-638-6841, jenny.eriksen@bmc.org (Boston) – Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have derived a population of pure lung and thyroid progenitor cells in vitro that successfully mimic the developmental milestones of lung and thyroid tissue formation. The research, which will be... More
BUSM Researchers Uncover Liver’s Role in Preventing Dissemination of Lung Infection
Contact: Jenny Eriksen Leary, 617-638-6841, jenny.eriksen@bmc.org (Boston) – Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered the regulation and functional significance of the acute phase response during a lung infection. The findings, which will be published in the May edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, demonstrate that the... More
Zambian Former President Rupiah Banda Newest Boston University African President-in-Resident
Contact: Verity Norman, 617-353-5452, vnorman@bu.edu; Richard Taffe, 617-353-4626, rtaffe@bu.edu (Boston) – Former President Rupiah Banda of Zambia has accepted an appointment as the eighth African President-in-Residence at Boston University’s African Presidential Center, it was announced today by center director Prof. Charles Stith, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania. Funded by a United States... More
BU Now: BU’s happenings, events and musings blog
- The Nursing Archives Associates presents their annual meeting with talk by Dr. Jeanette Ives Erickson May 14, 2012
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Spring Gala: “A Little Night Music” May 9, 2012
- Boston University Celebrates More Than 1.5 Million Pounds of Surplus Property Provided to Charities May 4, 2012