BU Today: Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers
Excerpt from BU Today | By: Jessica Colarossi | September 18, 2024 | Photos: Jackie Ricciardi and Cydney Scott
They’re scholars of Latin American literature and Asian history, experts in biomedical engineering and computing, organic chemistry, and biology—and now, five rising star Boston University faculty are also winners of prestigious Career Development Professorships. The high-caliber awards, given annually by BU’s Office of the Provost, recognizes “talented junior educators emerging as future leaders within their respective fields.”
The professorships provide stipends for the recipients’ salaries and research for the next three years. The awards are named in honor of the donors and alumni who fund them, with winners nominated by their respective deans and selected by the provost’s office.
Winner of the Shibulal Family Career Development Professorship, established by BU Trustee S. D. Shibulal (MET’88), is Brian Cleary, a Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences assistant professor. Brian Cleary holds appointments in biology and biomedical engineering, investigates the nature of molecular, cellular, and tissue processes by integrating computational and algorithmic tools into biology research. Called “a deep thinker and fearless leader-in-the-making,” by his nominator, Azer Bestavros, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and associate provost for BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Cleary “truly embraces the integrative, cross-cutting culture of CDS and embodies the qualities needed to be a leading innovator in data science.”