Sharing the Field’s Allure
ENG brings engineering to schools to bring students to engineering Josiah Quincy Upper School students and Gretchen Fougere, ENG associate dean for outreach and diversity, who says ENG’s goal is “to broaden and build the pipeline from K-12 schools into engineering.” Photos by Cydney Scott. It’s a warm spring morning at the Josiah Quincy Upper […]
Lawyers for Affordable Justice
COMMUNITY RESOURCE Lawyers for Affordable Justice Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern University’s law schools join together to offer low- and moderate-income people access to a lawyer at discounted rates. Read more RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s Since ants are a social animal, this new discovery about aging — funded by the National Institutes […]
Senate Committee Approves NSF, NASA Funding
BU IN DC President Robert A. Brown attended the spring membership meeting of the Association of American Universities from April 17 through 19. He also hosted a Choosing to Be Great alumni reception at the U.S. Institute of Peace on April 19. Anna DePold Hohler and Monica Parker James of the School of Medicine and […]
Three Alums Win Pulitzer Prizes
Photographers Tyler Hicks, Jessica Rinaldi, reporter Kimbriell Kelly This photo and others of Strider Wolf, an impoverished and abused Maine boy, garnered a Pulitzer Prize win for Jessica Rinaldi (CGS’99, COM’01). Photo by Jessica Rinaldi, Boston Globe. Photographing tragedy, both macro—refugees streaming into Europe—and micro—the trauma of a young Maine boy recovering from abuse and […]
Committees Propose Energy Research Increase
BU IN DC Dean Hardin Coleman and over fifty School of Education faculty, staff, and students participated in the American Education Research Association’s annual meeting between April 8 and 12. The School also hosted a reception featuring Alma J. Powell, the chair of the America’s Promise Alliance. Linda Hyman of the School of Medicine spoke […]
Kennedy Center Award Goes to GRS Student’s Belfast Drama
Second MFA playwright also gets nod Leo McGann’s award-winning play spans the modern history of Belfast, from 1970s violence to today. Photo by Cydney Scott. Amid the violence of Northern Ireland in the late 1970s, two off-duty British soldiers down a few pints in a bar outside Belfast. Dave staggers off to bed, but his […]
The Inventor
For ENG’s Greg Blonder, a great product requires perfect timing Click here to view this video: Greg Blonder, an ENG mechanical engineering professor, describes three of his inventions and how their success or failure was the result of market timing. The enormous popularity of Beats by Dre headphones have made cofounders Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine […]
Lawyers for Affordable Justice: Reasonably Priced Legal Help
New project serves students, immigrants Michael Denham (LAW’15) at his Kenmore Square office. A BU, BC, and NU partnership employs recent law grads to handle cases for people who have a hard time affording lawyers. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Are you a student whose off-campus landlord won’t fix an unsafe condition? An immigrant struggling to […]
Getting a Taste for Global Business
BU students get firsthand field experience in Beijing, Hong Kong The artificial hip joint being examined by Alissa Mangy (Questrom’16) and Bryan Chiakpo (ENG’17) is manufactured by CLZD, one of the companies a group of BU students visited in China during spring break. Photos by Gregory Stoller. Benjamin Graham (ENG’16) liked Hong Kong a lot, […]
Hope for the Battle against Type 1 Diabetes
Benefit corporation founded by parents of children with the disease Ed Damiano (center) and members of new medical device company Beta Bionics, whose mission is to improve the health of people with type 1 diabetes: (from left) design engineers Raj Setty and Rob LeBourdais; senior engineer Firas El-Khatib; Ed Raskin, VP for public benefit development […]