The Five Oddest Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
LAW’s Jay Wexler sheds light on nation’s founding document If concerns that Donald Trump is getting emoluments have you diving for the dictionary, that’s just one curious section of the US Constitution, BU’s Jay Wexler says. Photo by giftlegacy/iStock. From his revised travel ban, issued Sunday, to his outside business income, since taking office President Trump has […]
Researcher Comes Back to BU to Work on the Science of Memory
Steve Ramirez continues groundbreaking efforts at Kilachand Center Steve Ramirez (CAS’10) aims to “learn how memory works and then how to hijack it.” Photo by Cydney Scott. Because Steve Ramirez frequently attends neuroscience conferences around the world, he recently joined the Global Entry Program, which fast-tracks frequent flyers returning to the United States. “I was telling my dad […]
BU Researchers ID Possible Biomarker for Diagnosing CTE during Life
MED’s Ann McKee calls findings a hopeful step Ann McKee (left), director of BU’s CTE Center, and Jonathan Cherry, a School of Medicine postdoctoral fellow, have written a study, published Tuesday, reporting that a new chronic traumatic encephalopathy biomarker has been discovered that could potentially allow diagnosis of the disease during life. Photo by Cydney […]
The Future of Science Is Here
ON THE CHARLES RIVER The Future of Science is Here The Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering will support breakthroughs in neuroscience, human health, and sustainability with a $115 million donation, the largest gift in BU history. See the future RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT Engineering A Better Heart BU will lead a prestigious National […]
Expanded GI Bill Signed Into Law
BU IN DC School of Education Dean ad interim Catherine O’Connor participated in the American Education Research Association’s Consortium of University and Research Institutions Fall Policy Meeting on September 17 and 18. EXPANDED GI BILL SIGNED INTO LAW The bipartisan Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 (Public Law 115-48) was signed […]
Transfers Welcomed to BU
University helps with credits, housing, financial aid Kenneth Elmore (SED’87), associate provost and dean of students, with transfer students at a reception held earlier this fall. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19). Kyna Xu felt like she wasn’t thriving midway through her freshman year at a New York area school. Her classes, the people she met, […]
BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Wins $5.4 Million NIH Grant
Will fund research on early diagnostics, genetic risk factors, interventions Andrew Budson directs the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s National Institutes of Health–funded efforts to educate clinicians and the public in better understanding the disease and related disorders as well as to encourage people to participate in research. Photo by Cydney Scott. The National Institute on Aging, […]
BU Doubles Number of Posse Scholars
University’s 10-year partnership with program adds Bay Area cohort April Woo (Questrom’21) is one of several Bay Area students attending BU under an expansion of the University’s partnership with the Posse Foundation. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. She hadn’t seen it coming, April Woo confesses, when her college and career counselor stopped her in the hallway […]
BU to Supreme Court: Kill Trump Travel Ban
Joins 30 other academic institutions in friends of the court brief Even if the travel ban is rescinded, it probably has dissuaded some students from attending college in America already, BU and other universities tell the Supreme Court. For the third time this year, BU and other universities have gone to court—this time, the highest […]
Shipley Center Website Offers Prostate Cancer Facts for Patients
Gift from alum and trustee funds research and information warehouse One in every seven men in the United States will get prostate cancer, making it the second most common type, after skin cancer, for American men. It tends to be a slow-growing disease, but can sprint to life-threatening severity if detected too late. Screening for […]