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7.10 Sean Elliott’s work is so way-out intriguing that the associate professor of chemistry won a $100,000 grant from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
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9.10 Professor Mark W. Grinstaff won the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from BU’s Technology Development for his highly interdisciplinary research in biomedical engineering and macromolecular chemistry. The honor recognizes a faculty member who translates research into innovations that benefit humankind.
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9.10 The National Cancer Institute’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer awarded a $2 million grant to a multidisciplinary research team that includes members of the Charles River and Medical Campuses. Their goal: launch a training center to help grow the next generation of nano-medicine researchers in cancer.
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11.10 The new BU Institute for Iraqi Studies hopes to create academic links to the troubled nation.
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11.10 Ewa Kuligowska-Noble, professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine and a radiologist at Boston Medical Center, received the 2010 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from the American Association for Women Radiologists.
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12.10 Boston University Trustee Bahaa Hariri (SMG’90) pledged $15 million for the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. The institute’s mission is “to create and sustain a community of scholars who believe in the transformative potential of computational perspectives in research and education.”
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1.11 A team of researchers at Boston University School of Medicine was awarded a five-year, $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to explore how chronic inflammation can lead to systemic diseases.
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3.11 The BU School of Management’s undergraduate program was rated 31st in a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs published by Bloomberg Businessweek. That’s an improvement of six places from last year, and 12 places from the School’s 2009 ranking of 43rd.
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3.11 The School of Law has the nation’s best professors and ranks in the top 10 law schools in other quality measures, according to the latest Princeton Review ratings. The school-rating and test-prep company placed BU Law 8th among the 172 law schools surveyed for “best classroom experience” and 10th in line for “best career prospects.”
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3.11 Howard Bauchner, a 25-year veteran of the School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, was named the new editor-in-chief of the 128-year-old Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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6.11 College of Arts & Sciences Lecturer David Ferry was given the 2011 Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement, one of the top awards given to American poets.
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6.11 U.S. News & World Report said the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension)—developed by Medical Campus Associate Provost Thomas Moore—is the best. It topped 19 other diet plans in the magazine’s “Best Diets Overall” category, beating out such popular plans as Atkins, Jenny Craig, and Slim-Fast.