In Conversation: The BU President and Boston Medical Center Health System CEO on Their Shared Vision, Optimism, and Overcoming Turbulence
Melissa Gilliam and Alastair Bell discuss their partnership, the outsized role of BMC, Boston’s essential hospital and BU’s teaching hospital, the search for a new medical school dean, and headwinds and challenges.
USAID Tracker, Pandemic, Microplastics
COMMUNITY RESOURCE BU Scholar Tracks How Many Deaths May Result from USAID, Medicaid Cuts The impact trackers developed by BU School of Public Health Professor Brooke Nichols update in real time based on the loss of international aid programs combating HIV and tuberculosis. Follow along FACULTY EXPERTS Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? Five […]
Dept. of Education; China Committee; Biology of Aging
BU IN DC School of Public Health (SPH) Dean ad interim Michael Stein hosted an alumni reception on March 20th. A team of SPH faculty, staff, and students attended the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health’s annual meeting from March 19th to 21st. Arielle Derival-Joseph of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development […]
“It’s Unacceptable”: BU Mathematician Tracks How Many Deaths May Result from USAID, Medicaid Cuts
The impact trackers update in real time based on the loss of international aid programs combating HIV and tuberculosis.
BU School of Social Work Makes a “Transformative” Hire for Childhood Equity
Nationally renowned researcher Dolores Acevedo-Garcia launches Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development.
How BU Became a National Model and Destination for First-Generation Students
A generous gift and two impassioned leaders in Maria Erb and Anthony Jack helped give rise to Boston University’s Newbury Center. Students say it’s been life-changing.
BU’s New Director of Disability Services Says the Office Will Be More Visible, Transparent
Dawn Sousa-Hearn comes from a directorship position at the University of Texas at Tyler.
ED Investigations; Continuing Resolution; Policymakers
BU IN DC Dean Scott Taylor and Kaija Schilde of the Pardee School of Global Studies attended an alumni and student reception hosted by Paul Nathanson (Pardee ’85) on March 11th. Graduate students from the Pardee School spent the week in Washington, DC, learning about careers in the nation’s capital. Kurt Cavender and Leilani Muchai […]
Algae, Disease-Bearing Ticks, Erratic Snowfall, Tainted Oysters, Costly Insurance, Extreme Temperatures—Is Climate Change Ruining Our New England?
Boston University scholars in environment, public health, marine science, and more weigh in. “The scale of what we are signing ourselves up for is unprecedented,” one says.
Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? Five Reasons to Feel Confident—and Five to Be Worried
Five years after COVID-19 lockdowns, BU experts find some glimmers of hope, but say new US policies could put the world at greater risk of a coronavirus-like outbreak.