Six Quick Stats about Applicants to the Class of 2022
Record-breaking 64,470 applied, surge in those seeking early decision Half of the students who apply to BU have never set foot on campus. Current students can help them navigate, should they attend. Photo by Janice Checchio. A record-breaking 64,470 students applied to the BU Class of 2022 Applicants’ average GPA is 3.66, average SAT score […]
Kilachand Center’s New MRI Scanner Yields Outstanding Data
CNC team invites neuroscientists across both BU campuses to use machine Neuroscientist Tyler Perrachione, who studies speech and language, is delighted with BU’s new Siemens Prisma 3 Tesla MRI scanner in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center at the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering. Photo by Mira Whiting Photography. Neuroscientist Tyler Perrachione, who studies […]
Budget Deal Approved
BU IN DC College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen discussed engineering education with congressional offices as part of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Public Policy Colloquium on February 6 and 7. School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea participated in a meeting of the National Academies Standing Committee on Medical and Public Health Research […]
House Bill Targets Federal Aid for Needy and Grad Students
BU, peers raise red flags about reauthorization of 1965 education act BU and other universities fear seats for needy and graduate students will go unfilled under a House bill that would cut federal aid. Photo by Janice Checchio. US House bill whacks federal aid for poor and graduate students BU president writes University’s congressman about […]
How Decisions Work
CAS professor researches the cognitive process behind choices Joe McGuire, a CAS assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences, uses behavioral studies and brain imaging scans to learn how people make decisions. Photo by Cydney Scott. “Attention, Green Line passengers. There is a service disruption due to some track repairs. Shuttle buses will be available […]
U.S. Surgeon General Urges More Aid for Opioid Addicts
ON THE CHARLES RIVER US Surgeon General Urges More Aid for Opioid Addicts During a visit to BU, Dr. Jerome Adams says “We have to make it easier to get help than to get high.” Learn what he had to say FACULTY EXPERT Investing in Cryptocurrency: Do or Don’t? BU professor Mark Williams explains […]
President Delivers State of the Union Address
BU IN DC> Wen Li of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke on January 31 at a National Academies symposium celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Explorer 1 Mission and the discovery of the Earth’s radiation belts. Shoumita Dasgupta of the School of Medicine spoke at a meeting of the Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics on February 1. PRESIDENT DELIVERS STATE […]
Telling the Truth about Rwanda
Pardee professor speaks today about his new book on country’s recovery Timothy Longman with youth from Kabarondo, a village in the Eastern Province of Rwanda, in 2006. Photo courtesy of Timothy Longman. Timothy Longman doesn’t go back to Rwanda anymore. Too much of his work has displeased the regime. “I don’t feel safe to go,” says […]
A BU Professor, Two Alums Win City of Boston Fellowships
Filmmaker, writer, and artist receive $10,000 grants Performance artist Marilyn Arsem (CFA’73) outside the Museum of World Culture in Sweden holding several gallons of melting peppermint ice cream. Photo courtesy of Marilyn Arsem. Marilyn Arsem has been called the godmother of performance art in Boston. Arsem (CFA’73) walked for miles across Svalbard, Norway’s thawing permafrost in the Arctic […]
SPH Seminar: US Surgeon General Urges More Aid for Opioid Addicts
“We have to make it easier to get help than to get high” Jerome M. Adams, the US surgeon general,speaking at a School of Public Health Dean’s Seminar on the nation’s opioid crisis on January 26. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Before a standing-room-only crowd at the Medical Campus last Thursday, Jerome M. Adams, US surgeon general, […]