Author: Hannah Peterson

A Data Driven Analysis of Gun Type and Mass Shooting Deaths

This is pretty long, so I tried to create some appropriate headings (ala a Scientific Paper) if you’d like to skip the parts you aren’t interested in.  I used this as an excuse to play around/refine my coding in Pandas/Python and I’m happy to share code if anyone would like it. Intro/Motivation This is a […]

Informational Session for Consulting

ClearView Healthcare Partners, for PhD Students Interested in Life Science Thursday, 02/22 5:30-7:00pm, PHO 211 ClearView Healthcare Partners will be hosting an informational session that is open to advanced degree candidates interested in a full-time Consultant position. ClearView Healthcare Partners is a premier life sciences consulting firm with offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco […]

Life Hacks for a Screen Addicted Grad Student

When I joined the PhD program at BU, I switched from working in a wet lab (where I spent most of my days praying that my cells would live to see another day) to a mostly computational group. Now I’m in a set pattern, running up to 6 hours of experiments per week and the […]

A Story

My grandfather used to call me “the college girl in the family”, because I am the first and only female in my father’s side of the family to attend college. My grandparents live in a village in rural China, where for a long time, women were not meant to be educated. “Smart women are hard […]

Orientation Social

Friday, Sept 1 from 8-10pm at Cornwall’s (654 Beacon St.) Welcome new BME graduate students and catch up with friends before the semester starts by joining us at Cornwall’s Pub in Kenmore Square. The GSC will provide delicious appetizers and snacks of all sorts for your enjoyment. See you there!