MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s
Reducing stress granules may point to potential treatment Human nerve cells grown in the lab show tau, marked in blue, aggregating next to stress granules containing the RNA-binding protein TIA1, in red. The bright yellow-green dots are stress granules containing tau. Courtesy of Benjamin Wolozin. So far, fighting Alzheimer’s by attacking plaques and tangles hasn’t […]
University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students
BUild Lab: IDG Capital Student Innovation Center a hub for thinkers, doers, makers, innovators Gerald Fine, who leads, and helped create, ENG’s Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), has been named executive director of Innovate@BU, a $20 million University-wide initiative giving all students the opportunity to engage in solving real-world problems and hands-on innovation. Photo by […]
Expanding Howard Thurman Center to Move to 808 Comm Ave
Dedicated to seeking common ground, staff, programs have already grown The Howard Thurman Center (HTC) will move into two-thirds of what is now the 808 Gallery, which is expected to take two to two-and-half years. Thurman Center to relocate from GSU to 808 Gallery over next two years Multicultural center’s space expanding by factor of […]
BU Promotes Diversity in STEM Fields with NSF Grants
At MED, students from underrepresented groups learn about careers beyond medicine BU has three National Science Foundation grants to promote diversity in STEM fields; the principal investigators are Linda Hyman, associate provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences (from left), Sarah Hokanson, director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS […]
BU, Higher Ed Oppose Tax Bills
ADVOCACY RESOURCE BU, Higher Ed Oppose Tax Bills Proposals to raise taxes on students and make university operations more expensive are among the reasons that colleges urge Congress to reject the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Learn the details NOTABLE ALUMNI An Intimate Portrait of Obama A new photo book by BU alumnus and former […]
Obama: An Intimate Portrait Chronicles Eight Extraordinary Years
New photo book by chief official White House photographer Pete Souza (COM’76) President Barack Obama at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, October 14, 2016. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. Alum Pete Souza was Barack Obama’s chief White House photographer New photo book has moments from historic drama to family intimacy Souza’s Instagram […]
Tax Proposals Advance in Congress
BU IN DC Edward Damiano of the College of Engineering spoke at a Capitol Hill briefing on November 15 regarding the role of the National Institutes of Health in supporting medical breakthroughs. Andrei Lapets and Mayank Varia of the College of Arts & Sciences participated in a workshop at the U.S. Census Bureau on cutting-edge privacy […]
Research Leads to Amazing Things
Ed Damiano, an ENG professor of biomedical engineering and owner of medical device company, Beta Bionics, Inc. BU’s own Ed Damiano and other inventors of amazing things that began with National Institutes of Health funding spoke at a Congressional briefing on Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Watch the video See the photos View the flyer
Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion
Bill for each taxpayer is $23,386 Neta C. Crawford, a CAS professor of political science, codirects the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She includes the costs of health care and disability compensation in her accounting. Photo by Cydney Scott. How do you count the costs of […]
Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns
BU student’s website tracks all demonstrations against current administration Earlier this year Tommy Leung (left) and Nathan Perkins (MED’18) launched a website that chronicles all protests against the current administration, hoping to give the data to government officials as evidence of the issues their constituents are passionate about. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Meet Tommy Leung […]