White House Outlines Research Priorities
BU IN DC President Robert A. Brown attended a board meeting of the Association of American Universities on July 29 and 30. Danielle Citron of the School of Law met with Congressional staff to discuss “deepfakes” legislation on July 30. Kim McCall of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke at the Training, Workforce Development, […]
NSF, NIH Remind Grantees to Report Foreign Support
BU IN DC Dean Jeffrey Hutter, Maria Kukuruzinska, and Marianne Jurasic of the Goldman School of Dental Medicine met with National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Director Martha Somerman and National Institutes of Health Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak on June 27. Christina Rice and Jay Darby of the School of Law presented their […]
Buzz Bits. . . IRS Releases Draft Endowment Tax Rules
BU IN DC Ziv Feldman and Peter Garik of the Wheelock College of Education participated in the 2019 Noyce Summit sponsored by the National Science Foundation on July 11. BUZZ BITS… The National Institutes of Health announced that National Eye Institute (NEI) Director Paul Sieving will retire on July 29 after nearly twenty years […]
House Committee Boosts Research Funding
BU IN DC Noora Lori of the Pardee School of Global Studies attended a conference on May 23. HOUSE COMMITTEE BOOSTS RESEARCH FUNDING The House Appropriations Committee passed several fiscal year 2020 spending bills this week, recommending that many research accounts receive sizable budget increases. Under the Committee-passed bills, the following agencies would be funded […]
Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality
BU IN DC Anthony Janetos, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, met with officials at the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, among others, to discuss environmental research on May 15 and 16. SENATE VOTES TO RESTORE NET NEUTRALITY On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate approved a […]
Education Dept. Announces Title IX Changes
BU IN DC Karen Jacobs of Sargent College visited Congressional offices for the American Occupational Therapy Association’s Centennial Hill Day on September 25. EDUCATION DEPT. ANNOUNCES TITLE IX CHANGES The U.S. Department of Education issued new guidance last week as to how colleges should address sexual misconduct under Title IX of federal law, replacing guidelines […]
Congress Funds Government Through September
BU IN DC Dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies Adil Najam spoke on a panel about development challenges facing Pakistan at the U.S. Institute for Peace on May 1. CONGRESS FUNDS GOVERNMENT THROUGH SEPTEMBER President Donald Trump will shortly sign into law a bill that funds the federal government for the remaining five months […]
Congress Expected to Pass Short Term Funding
BU IN DC Anthony Janetos of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future attended a National Academies meeting of the Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program on April 20 and 21. School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea addressed the 2017 Amygdala, Stress and PTSD Conference on April 18. […]
White House Proposes Research, Student Aid Cuts
BU IN DC President Robert A. Brown attended the American Council on Education board meeting on March 11. Gene Jarrett of the College of Arts & Sciences participated in the National Humanities Alliance annual meeting on March 13. Shoumita Dasgupta of the BU School of Medicine took part in the strategic visioning meeting for the […]
Brown, Waters Meet with Policymakers
BU IN DC Anthony Janetos of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Daniel Segrè of the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering participated in a meeting of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy, of which they are members, on […]