BU to Contribute $250K to King Memorial
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BU to Contribute $250K to King Memorial
The University announced its contribution to an initiative honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS ’55, Hon.’59) at a joint BU-Boston holiday observance featuring Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh.
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ADVOCACY RESOURCE
BU Urges Rethinking on Proposed Title IX Changes
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Education, Boston University President Robert A. Brown says the agency’s proposed rules change would deter victims of sexual misconduct from coming forward.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Drug Marketing is a Matter of Life and Death
A new county-by-county study from the BU School of Medicine, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, shows that opioid marketing directly fuels prescription rates and fatal overdoses. Learn the truth
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
The BU Initiative on Cities unveiled its 5th annual Menino Survey of Mayors at the National Press Club on January 22... BU School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea gave a talk on the importance of “Health, Not Healthcare” at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities on January 22… Joshua Shifrinson of the BU Pardee School of Global Studies briefed Congressional staffers on the geopolitics of great world powers on January 16… a BU political scientist revealed a gender pay gap for Congressional staffers to CNBC… Steve Ramirez of the BU College of Arts & Sciences is making memories — and then erasing them — with National Geographic.