Universities React to the President’s Budget Request
ADVOCACY 
Universities React to the President’s Budget Request
The Association of American Universities (AAU), with BU as a member, expresses concern regarding proposed levels of federal research investment. Read about it.
EDUCATION INNOVATION 
A Tale 500 Million Years in the Making
BU undergraduates join Boston-area high school students to collect rock samples around New England for the National Science Foundation-funded Rocks Beneath Our Toes program.
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FACULTY EXPERT
Julie Dwyer: Early Childhood 
Do the early childhood provisions in the President’s Budget Request leave you with questions? BU’s Dr. Dwyer studies early learning and literacy, and has first hand experience as a reading specialist in Chelmsford, MA, schools. Learn about her work.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
Shoumita Dasgupta, Daniel Remick and Douglas Rosene of the BU School of Medicine talked with legislators about National Institutes of Health funding as part of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s Capitol Hill Day… Walter Connor of BU College of Arts and Sciences made observations on the crisis in Ukraine in the Boston Herald… John Clarke of BU College of Arts and Sciences discussed astrobiology and planetary sciences during the National Research Council’s Space Science Week… Linda McClain of BU School of Law looked at the legal battle over same sex marriage in Texas for the Associated Press… Anne McKee of BU Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy brought attention to soccer-related brain trauma in the New York Times.