The Voice of BU for Almost Half a Century
Marie Gannon has worked BU’s switchboard since the year Nixon resigned Marie Gannon has been working BU’s switchboard for four and a half decades. Over the years she’s seen a lot of changes, including the arrival of computers and cell phones. She says she loves her job and has no plans to retire…yet. Photo by […]
A Big Building for Big Ideas
ON THE CHARLES RIVER A Big Building for Big Ideas Boston University’s new Data Sciences Center will bring mathematicians, computer scientists, and statisticians together under one roof to lead the way in data science. Take a look NOTABLE ALUMNI Opening Doors Erica Mosca (CGS ’06, COM ’08) is the founder of Leaders in Training, a nonprofit […]
President Brown Meets with Lawmakers
BU IN DC Karen Jacobs of Sargent College met with Congressional staff as part of the American Occupational Therapy Association’s annual Capitol Hill day on October 1. College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen attended the National Science Foundation (NSF)/American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Deans Forum on Broadening Participation on October 2 and 3. Sarah […]
Making News: Alum Builds Washington News Bureau
C.D. “Budd” Ruffin,the District 2 commissioner from rural Choctaw County, Ala., is a big guy—defensive-lineman big—and he sweats a bit as he stands in the grand marble rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building in his sport coat and scally cap. Ruffin came to Capitol Hill to lobby Alabama’s congressional delegation to fund workforce development, […]
Rising Democratic Star Ocasio-Cortez Urges Students to Become Activists
Congressional candidate, CAS alum: persistence, courage needed to achieve social justice New York 4th District Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11) delivered a powerful call to action to several hundred students at the Tsai Performance Center on Monday. Photo by Cydney Scott. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising star in the Democratic party, urged BU students to become […]
BU Proposes to Build Data Sciences Center, Aiming to Become Leader in Booming Field
Charles River Campus building would put math, statistics, computer science under one roof This rendering of a bird’s-eye view of the proposed Data Sciences Center shows how the building would be an architectural statement for the BU of the future. Image courtesy of KPMB Architects. BU has announced plans to build the BU Data Sciences […]
Midterm Election Panel Hosted by BU Women’s Guild
The BU Women’s Guild hosted a “Lunch & Learn: Midterm Election Panel” for a political preview on Thursday, September 27, 2018, from 12:00pm – 1:30pm. Location: 8 Saint Mary’s Street, 9th floor (West End Lounge) Boston, MA 02215 Panelists: Diane Balser, Instructor, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program Emily Burlij, Associate […]
Congress Increases Research, Student Aid Funding
BU IN DC Yannis Paschalidis of the College of Engineering participated in the Connections in Smart Health Workshop at the National Science Foundation from September 24 to September 26. University Librarian K. Matthew Dames attended the Association of Research Libraries annual fall meeting on September 25 and 26. School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea delivered […]
BU Prof Named One of Scientific American’s 11 Rising Stars of Science
ENG’s Sahar Sharifzadeh chosen from 500 globally Iranian native Sahar Sharifzadeh came to BU as an ENG assistant professor in 2014. Photo (left) courtesy of the College of Engineering. When 500 scientists from around the globe were assessed by the Nature Index and the League of Scholars Whole-of-Web (WoW), based on their curiosity, their initiative, […]
The Current Changing Landscape at NSF with Focus on Geosciences
NSF’s Bill Easterling Visits BU Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 3:30-5 pm Trustee Lounge 1 Silber Way, 9th Floor Boston, MA 02215 The Geosciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation (GEO) seeks to improve our understanding of the physical global environment and the processes that affect its behavior. The Directorate provides 64% of all federal funding for academic […]