A Broken System

FACULTY EXPERTS
A Broken System

BU School of Law faculty explain how policymakers can advance criminal justice reform beyond the FIRST STEP Act.
Take a step

 

COMMUNITY RESOURCE
Mayors Talk Transportation

Mayors interviewed for the annual Menino Survey conducted by the BU Initiative on Cities say their cities are unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists — but cars still rule.  See more surprising results

 

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
How Global Warming Helped Ignite Australian Wildfires

BU ecologist Michael Dietze talks about why the bushfires are so much worse than previous years and whether Australia’s plants and animals can recover.
Get his take

 

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

The NIH Director’s Blog highlights research by Naomi Ko of the BU School of Medicine on how insurance status impacts racial disparities in cancer diagnosisJessica Stern of the BU Pardee School of Global Studies interviews war criminal Radovan Karadzic in her book excerpt in The New York TimesJames Bessen of the BU School of Law discusses how automation is changing labor markets in a Brookings Institution podcast… Connor Wood of the BU School of Theology explains why copying others allows humans to flourish in The Conversation