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.
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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.
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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 diagnosis… Jessica Stern of the BU Pardee School of Global Studies interviews war criminal Radovan Karadzic in her book excerpt in The New York Times… James 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.