Wage Equity, Breaking Encryption, USAID
COMMUNITY RESOURCE
BU Data Platform Will Help Massachusetts Track, and Work to Close, Wage Gaps
BU researchers will extend across the state an encrypted data program already in use to track the gender and racial wage gaps in Boston. The platform was developed with support from the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Our Online World Relies on Encryption. What Happens If It Fails?
Quantum computers will make traditional data encryption techniques obsolete; with support from the National Science Foundation, BU researchers have turned to physics to come up with better defenses.
FACULTY EXPERT
Policymakers Discuss BU Professor’s Work Tracking the Impact of USAID Cuts
The Washington Post Fact Checker featured a tracking tool developed by BU School of Public Health Professor Brooke Nichols, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that people have died due to the Administration’s foreign aid cuts.
THOUGHT LEADERS
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