New Faculty Resources
Community Building
BU Diversity & Inclusion
Boston University Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) works closely with all of the University’s 17 schools and colleges to help create a positive and welcoming campus climate and ensure that we are recruiting world-class students, staff, and faculty whose experiences and viewpoints embolden the academic endeavor.
Equal Opportunity Office
The Equal Opportunity Office (EOO) supports a safe, inclusive BU—offering fair, impartial guidance to help you navigate concerns around access, discrimination, or harassment.
Faculty & Staff Assistance Office (FSAO)
FSAO is a confidential service that provides employees with support and resources to manage personal and professional challenges, such as mental health, substance use, and work-life issues.
LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty and Staff
The LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty & Staff engages the BU community to foster a sense of belonging and connectedness for faculty and staff; increase the visibility of LGBTQIA+ resources, research, and scholarship; celebrate the contributions of the diverse LGBTQIA+ community at BU; and support the development of an inclusive and equitable workplace.
Living Our Values Initiative
Boston University launched the Living Our Values Initiative to identify, embody, and promote the core principles and beliefs that unite our community and guide our decisions, behaviors, and actions in ways that foster inclusivity, integrity, and positive impact.
Office of the Ombuds
The Office of the Ombuds provides a safe, confidential, impartial space for the BU community to discuss concerns, explore options, navigate conflict, and receive guidance.
Supporting Students
Center for Career Development
The Center for Career Development (CCD) helps students explore career options, build professional skills, find internships and jobs, connect with alumni and employers, and prepare for graduate school and other post-graduation opportunities.
Educational Resource Center
The Educational Resource Center (ERC) empowers students to become more effective, engaged learners, offering peer tutoring, presentation prep, academic coaching, and more.
Fellowships & Scholarships Office
The Office of Fellowships & Scholarships provides outreach, information, and guidance to high-achieving BU students and recent alumni across a variety of external and BU-specific fellowships that support domestic and international experiences before and after graduation.
First Year and Transfer Student Success
The Undergraduate Advising & Students Success office includes advising and resources for first-year students and transfer students.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Success
The Graduate and Postdoctoral Success (GPS) team supports the professional development of graduate students and postdocs.
Graduate Writing Support
The Educational Resource Center supports graduate students in navigating the particular demands of graduate writing – from conference papers to articles to theses to dissertations – and strives to facilitate a sense of community among graduate writers.
LGBTQIA+ Student Center
The LGBTQIA+ Student Center develops programming and curates resources that allow students to discover who they are, determine the next steps they want to take based on their discoveries, and feel empowered to design the life they want to live.
Newbury Center
The Newbury Center fosters the holistic development and success of first-generation undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Pathways Programs
The Pathways Programs offers opportunities for faculty and staff to serve as mentors to ensure that students have access to the resources Boston University has for them to succeed.
Public Safety
Public Safety Officers are a highly trained, unarmed, uniformed group of security professionals that primarily provide emergency response services and support to the Boston University community.
Student Wellbeing
Student Wellbeing is a campus-wide initiative to support students’ health and wellbeing during their time at BU.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
UROP connects BU undergraduate students with funded, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Learning, Teaching, and Research
BU Faculty Affairs & BU Faculty Development
Boston University Faculty Development advances the intellectual growth and professional development of faculty by offering impactful educational opportunities across rank, discipline, and college.
BU Libraries
As faculty, you have access to the vast collections at BU Libraries and the expertise of librarians and archivists to support your scholarship, teaching, and professional growth.
Foundation Relations
The Boston University Foundation Relations team helps faculty identify, apply for, secure, and steward charitable gifts and grants from private philanthropic foundations and nongovernmental organizations.
Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning
The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning is committed to fostering a culture of excellence and eminence in teaching and learning at Boston University.
NCFDD
NCFDD is a professional development resource designed for academic careers at all stages.
Centers and Institutes
Center for Brain Recovery
The Boston University Center for Brain Recovery conducts ground-breaking research to advance our understanding of neurological disorders and develop innovative approaches to rehabilitation by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and precision medicine.
Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases
The mission of Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) is to improve societal resilience against the threat of emerging and epidemic infectious diseases worldwide through public health and policy research, capacity strengthening, training, and advocacy.
Center for Forced Displacement
The Center on Forced Displacement (CFD) fosters interdisciplinary research and engagement with the global challenge of forced displacement.
Center for Health Data Science
The Center for Health Data Science partners with investigators and teams from project planning through delivery, providing the data science expertise needed to move their work forward.
BU Center for the Humanities (BUCH)
BU Center for the Humanities supports the work of humanities scholars and students at Boston University through fellowships, awards, internships, and research collaborations.
Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS)
BU Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS) advances a vibrant social science community, encompassing research, training, and public engagement among social scientists across disciplines and schools at BU.
Center for Manufacturing Innovation
The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation (CMI) conducts advanced research and development and engineers solutions for a broad range of industries, including biotechnology, photonics, manufacturing, and renewable energy.
CARB-X
CARB-X is the world’s leading non-profit partnership advancing the early-stage research and development of innovative products to prevent, diagnose and treat bacterial infections.
Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
The mission of Hariri Institute is to catalyze cross-disciplinary collaborations among researchers, enabling them to address important problems, make ground-breaking advances, build self-sustained research programs, and have lasting societal impact.
Initiative on Cities
BU Initiative on Cities is the university’s interdisciplinary center for urban research and learning.
Institute for Global Sustainability
Boston University’s interdisciplinary center for urban research and learning.The Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability pioneers research to advance a sustainable and equitable future.