Beltway BUzz
Washington, DC, is a busy place with a lot of moving parts. Beltway BUzz provides updates on Congressional and federal agency activities, announces key federal personnel changes, highlights grant solicitations, and features the many BU faculty and staff who participate in Washington activities.
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MA Research Universities; IES Director; Language & Culture
BU IN DC Joyce Wong of the College of Engineering addressed the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Annual Event on March 24th and 25th. Wong is the president of AIMBE. Deborah Carr of the Center for Innovation in the Social Sciences addressed a National Institute of Aging workshop on... More
NIH & Student Aid Budgets; DOE Science Leader; Africa
BU IN DC Dean Sandro Galea and Lisa Sullivan of the School of Public Health addressed the ASPPH Annual Meeting for Academic Public Health on March 21st and 22nd. Robert Tsai of the School of Law discussed his new book on lawyer Stephen Bright during a book talk with National Public Radio journalist Carrie Johnson at Politics & Prose on March 20th. Mary Churchill of the Wheelock College of... More
President’s Budget; NIMH Director; Climate & Infectious Diseases
BU IN DC Ambassador Mark Storella of the Pardee School for Global Studies and more than twenty graduate students met with foreign policy leaders at think tanks, government, and nongovernmental organizations between March 11th and 15th. Storella and Pardee Dean Scott Taylor hosted an alumni reception on March 12th.Glenn Markenson of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Lauren... More
NSF & NEH Budgets; State of the Union; DEI on Campus
BU IN DC Muhammad Zaman of the Center for Forced Displacement discussed his book We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced during a talk at the Wilson Center on March 7th. Tami Gouveia of the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health met with Massachusetts and Illinois Congressional... More
Spending Stopgap, Social Science, NSF TIP
BU IN DC Provost ad interim Kenneth Lutchen, along with Dean Scott Taylor and Rachel Brulé of the Pardee School of Global Studies, addressed the Alliance for Afghan Women’s Economic Resilience (AWER) Summit on February 27th. AWER is a partnership between the U.S. Department of State and BU. Dean Mariette DiChristina ... More
NAIRR, Harassment, Defense Medical Research
BU IN DC Dean ad interim Elise Morgan of the College of Engineering attended the American Society of Engineering Education's Public Policy Colloquium between February 5th and 7th. She also discussed the College's federally-funded research with staff for the offices of Massachusetts Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren and... More
Antisemitism, NSF AI Adviser, LinkedIn
BU IN DC Kevin Gallagher of the Global Development Policy Center joined the Task Force on Climate, Development and the International Monetary Fund for strategy meetings and policy dialogue between January 29th and 31st. Ibram X. Kendi of the Center for Antiracist Research delivered a book talk at the DC Public Library... More
Antisemitism, School Discipline, Defense Bill
BU IN DC School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea spoke with Congressional offices regarding a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on addressing adolescent mental health and social media use on December 13th. Galea chaired the report committee. Jennifer Gómez of the School of Social Work was a... More
Antisemitism Hearing, Foreign Gifts, Heliophysics Director
BU IN DC Associate Provost for Computing & Data Sciences Azer Bestavros discussed artificial intelligence research with staff for the House New Democrat Coalition and attended a meeting of the National Science Foundation Computer & Information Science & Engineering Advisory Committee, of which he is a member, on December 6th and 7th. Emma... More
National Cancer Institute, Social Sciences, Government Rotators
BU IN DC Eugene Declercq of the School of Public Health spoke on a panel during a Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services roundtable on the intersection of broadband connectivity and maternal health on November 17th. BUZZ BITS... President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate... More