Not Politics as Usual

NOTABLE ALUMNI
Not Politics as Usual

BU alumnae were among the historic wave of women, minority, and LGBTQ candidates who upended the 2018 midterm election. Get to know them

 

FACULTY EXPERTS
A Better Way to Predict Election Outcomes

BU Professors Dino Christenson and Mark Crovella have developed a faster, cheaper alternative to election polling by analyzing web browsing data.  See how they do it

 

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
How Does HIV Exposure Impact Uninfected Babies?

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the BU School of Public Health is comparing the health of HIV-exposed babies in Zambia with the health of babies born to mothers without HIV.  Find out how

 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

Congresswoman Katherine Clark and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey celebrated the 70th anniversary of the landmark Framingham Heart Studyrun by Boston University… The BU Global Development Policy Center and the World Resources Institute released a joint report on the climate implications of China’s Belt & Road Initiative… Still savoring the Boston Red Sox World Series championship? Learn about their previous World Series appearances at Boston’s other baseball treasure, located at BU, via The New York Times… Congratulations to Monica Wang of the BU School of Public Health, one of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s ten outstanding young leaders in 2018Sarah Sherman-Stokes of the School of Law explains the impact of the immigration court backlog in Massachusetts to WBUR.