Eric Kolaczyk Named New Director of BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
“Data science and computing are now embedded in the human experience and informing everything we do,” CAS math professor says Eric Kolaczyk has earned an international reputation for his work across bioinformatics and computational neuroscience. Photo by Cydney Scott. Eric Kolaczyk, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of mathematics and statistics, whose work across […]
BUzz Bits
BU IN DC Diane Baldwin, Ryan Russell, and Michael Vergoni of Sponsored Programs and Kathryn Mellouk of Research Compliance attended a Federal Demonstration Partnership meeting on January 8 through 10. Roscoe Giles of the College of Engineering gave a presentation on transitioning from exascale computing at a meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee on January […]
Congressional Outlook For 2020
BU IN DC Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Dean David Chard addressed the Annual Principal Investigators Meeting at the Institute of Education Sciences on January 9. Andrew Bacevich of the Pardee School of Global Studies spoke about his new book at Politics and Prose Bookstore on January 8. Ioannis Paschalidis of the College […]
Coming Soon: Research, Student Aid Increases
BU IN DC Elaine Nsoesie of the School of Pubic Health gave a talk on using artificial intelligence to promote food safety at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration on December 13. COMING SOON: RESEARCH, STUDENT AID INCREASES This week, both chambers of Congress passed two spending bills which will fund the federal government for the […]
12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019
From climate science to fake news, these discoveries are sure to keep making waves in the next decade 2019 will go down in history as the year that an international team of researchers, including two BU astronomers, captured the first image of a black hole. Photo courtesy of Event Horizon Telescope. Still looking for a […]
Building a Carbon Free Boston
ON THE CHARLES RIVER Building a Carbon Free Boston BU President Robert A. Brown and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh broke ground on the most energy efficient large building in the city’s history. Learn how we did it COMMUNITY RESOURCE BU Offers Discounted Tuition to Boston Public School Teachers Boston Public School employees will receive […]
Congress, NSF Act on Scientific Security
BU IN DC James Bessen of the School of Law spoke about automation and the labor market at a Brookings Institution event on December 12. Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences Azer Bestravos spoke at a meeting of the National Science Foundation Computing & Information Science & Engineering Advisory Committee on December 12. […]
Automation, Labor Market Institutions, and the Middle Class
BU Law Professor James Bessen speaks at the Brookings Institution on December 12, 2019.
How Recent BU Alums Are Helping High Schoolers Apply to College
College Advising Corps provides a “near-peer” experience for first-gen students sweating the process Seniors Nedgyn Laloi (from left), Angy Bedoya, and Dariana Perez with their career and college advisor Miriam Alfaro (CAS’19) at English High School in Jamaica Plain. When Miriam Alfaro graduated from BU in May, she went right to work—helping young people like […]
BU Responds to House Climate Request
BU IN DC Malika Jeffries-EL of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke at a November 20 colloquium celebrating 150 years of the Periodic Table of Elements sponsored by the American Chemical Society and the National Science Foundation. School of Medicine Dean Karen Antman attended the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans Administrative Board […]