College Hunger, Supporting Students & Research, Sun Science

ON THE CHARLES RIVER

BU Campus Hunger Challenge winning team Food@BU members Alexia Lancea (CAS’22) (from left), Eunice Lamothe (CAS’22, SPH’23), Saahil Adusumilli (Sargent’22), and Mary Campion (CAS’22) with US Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and State Rep. Andy Vargas (Pardee’15) (D-3rd Essex).

Rep. McGovern Keynotes BU Campus Hunger Challenge

BU students pitched their innovative solutions to combating campus hunger to Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), YMCA of Greater Boston CEO James Morton, and State Rep. Andy Vargas (Pardee ’15) at the conclusion of the University’s month-long Campus Hunger Challenge. 

Meet the challenge

ADVOCACY RESOURCE

Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography.

Investing in Students and Scientists

Boston University, Harvard University, MIT, and Tufts University ask the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to invest in federal student aid, research, and the humanities in fiscal year 2023.

See how Congress can invest in the future

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

The Boston University-led SHIELD (Solar wind with Hydrogen Ion Exchange and Large-scale Dynamics) DRIVE Science Center is pioneering new work on the heliosphere, the magnetic “force field” that shelters life on Earth from destructive cosmic rays. Image courtesy of Merav Opher, et. al.

NASA Gives Boost to BU-Led Effort to Model Solar System’s Protective Bubble

The space agency awarded a five year, multi-million dollar grant to the BU SHIELD Center to study how the sun influences and shapes the solar system and to work toward diversifying the field of space physics.

Understand the bubble

THOUGHT LEADERS

In Case You Missed It…

Elizabeth Bettini of the BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development explains why schools are having difficulty hiring special education teachers on National Public Radio… U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Mary Beth Leonard (CAS ’84) visited the BU Pardee School of Global Studies… Katherine Einstein of the BU College of Arts & Sciences describes the ways homeownership changes how people view their communities in The Atlantic… Stephen Prothero of the BU College of Arts & Sciences discusses why more Americans are choosing cremation in The Washington Post… Kevin Gallagher of the BU Global Development Policy Center describes why Ecuador is struggling to meet its climate goals in Foreign Policy.

 

 

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