Meet BU’s COVID-19 Contact Tracing Team
ON THE CHARLES RIVER
Meet BU’s COVID-19 Contact Tracing Team
Old-fashioned detective work and a custom contact tracing database are quashing the spread of COVID-19. Trace their work
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Are We Paying for Robots to Take Our Jobs?
BU economist Pascual Restrepo explains how the tax code rewards businesses for automating. What’s the solution?
FACULTY EXPERT
A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change
BU historian Paula Austin is amplifying the voices of Black teenagers from Jim Crow-era Washington, D.C., and highlighting the parallels to today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Read their stories
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
The BU Initiative on Cities released its annual Menino Survey of Mayors, with insights on how mayors are addressing COVID-19 recovery, policing and protests, and parks and green spaces… Ed Damiano of the BU College of Engineering explains how National Institutes of Health funding and the Bayh-Dole Act made his innovative bionic pancreas a reality… BU’s CARB-X received the Global Health Technologies Coalition’s 2020 Partnership award on December 8th… Kristen Goodell of the BU School of Medicine explains how a dramatic increase in medical school applications is due to the “Fauci Effect”… finally, BU Federal Relations wishes you Happy Holidays! Thank you for reading, we will have more stories for you in 2021.