CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change
Findings could have implications for carbon cycling Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907. Photo courtesy of Mark Friedl and Minkyu Moon. Forests’ role in absorbing carbon from fossil fuel emissions is important Researchers study spring’s timing to understand how […]
Allen Questrom Professor and Dean Kenneth Freeman to Leave Post in June
National search planned to find a successor Kenneth Freeman, Allen Questrom Professor and Dean in Management, will be leaving the position at the end of the school year. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. When Kenneth Freeman became the Questrom School of Business Allen Questrom Professor and Dean in Management in 2010, he opted for a tiny, highly visible, […]
Winds of Change
CAS scientists look to coral reefs for how Pacific gusts influence global climate Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012. Photo by Elizabeth Wiggins. Winds in the tropical Pacific are poorly characterized, yet affect climate worldwide Scientists use the chemical fingerprint of winds captured in coral to re-create wind […]
BU Trustees Approve Aggressive Climate Action Plan
Effort prepares University for global temperature rise The BU Climate Action Plan adopted by the BU Board of Trustees recommends new building efficiencies, changes to renewable energy sources, and ways to make climate change a bigger part of the University’s curriculum and research. Illustration by Rubén D. Cerón Guevara (MET’19) and BU Metropolitan College Professor […]
Congress Extends Budget Two Weeks
BU IN DC School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea gave the keynote address at the AcademyHealth Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health on December 4. He and Chief of Staff Catherine Ettman discussed public health issues with Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA) on December 6. School of Medicine Dean Karen Antman […]
NEIDL BSL-4 Lab Gets Green Light
Boston Public Health Commission approves research NEIDL microbiologist Elke Mühlberger (center), one of the world’s leading researchers on the Ebola and Marburg viruses, senior research scientist Judith Olejnik (left), and research scientist Adam Hume are eager to get to work in the NEIDL BSL-4 lab. Photo by Cydney Scott. After years of scrutiny by regulatory […]
Jorge Delva Chosen as New School of Social Work Dean
Nationally recognized expert on economically disadvantaged assumes post in January Jorge Delva, incoming dean of the School of Social Work, is a prolific author and researcher and a nationally recognized scholar. Photo by Cydney Scott. Immigrated to Hawaii from Chile at age 16 Expert in substance abuse and ethnic health disparities Holds a second-degree black […]
CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Tool will give cities data needed to reduce concentrations of carbon dioxide Lucy Hutyra and Conor Gately have developed a new tool called ACES, which provides fine-resolution data on CO2 emissions. A key to climate change regulation, says Hutyra, is monitoring emissions “in a robust, transparent, and reproducible way.” Photo by Cydney Scott. In June […]
Tax Bills Undercut College Access
ADVOCACY RESOURCE Tax Bills Undercut College Access BU President Robert A. Brown argues that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would harm American competitiveness by making it harder to earn a college degree. Learn why STUDENT LIFE Innovate@BU BU launched a $20 million, University-wide initiative to give students the opportunity to solve real-world problems […]
Congress Passes Defense Policy Bill
BU IN DC Azer Bestavros of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and Katharine Lusk of the Initiative on Cities co-led a National Science Foundation workshop on community-university-industry research collaborations that enable smart and connected communities on November 30 and December 1; the workshop featured several BU investigators. Bestavros also met with Congressional staff regarding BU’s work on […]