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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Trump Budget Request; Student Aid Cuts; Antisemitism Bills
BU IN DC President Melissa Gilliam met with Massachusetts lawmakers on Capitol Hill on April 29th. Gilliam spoke with Representatives Stephen Lynch, Richard Neal, and Lori Trahan about the impact of federal grant terminations, investing in student aid, and supporting BU's global community. Christopher Robertson of the School of Law hosted a Congressional... More
NSF Director; Accreditation; DOE F&A Caps
BU IN DC Indara Suarez of the College of Arts & Sciences met with Congressional offices to discuss the importance of investing in physics research as part of the U.S. Large Hadron Collider Users Association (USLUA) visit to Capitol Hill on April 24th. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION DIRECTOR RESIGNS National Science Foundation (NSF) Director... More
MA Universities Advocate; NEH; NSH Infrastructure
BU IN DC Doctoral students Matilde Carrera and Emma Daily of the College of Arts & Sciences, Meagan Lauber and Sita Ramaswamy of the Avedisian & Chobanian School of Medicine, and Dora Balog of the College of Engineering attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and... More
Civil Rights Reviews; NIH Changes; Harassment Summit
BU IN DC Rory Van Loo of the School of Law testified at a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights hearing entitled "Big Fixes for Big Tech" on April 1st. ADMINISTRATION UPDATES: CIVIL RIGHTS REVIEWS, SCIENCE PRIORITIES, DEFENSE SCIENCE LEADER The Trump Administration recently announced it is reviewing several... More
Antisemitism; DETERRENT Act; Op-Eds
BU IN DC Japonica Brown-Saracino of the College of Arts & Sciences and Molly Richard of the Center for Innovation in Social Science shared their research on housing policy with Massachusetts and Rhode Island Congressional offices as part of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) Advocacy Day on March 24th and... More
Dept. of Education; China Committee; Biology of Aging
BU IN DC School of Public Health (SPH) Dean ad interim Michael Stein hosted an alumni reception on March 20th. A team of SPH faculty, staff, and students attended the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's annual meeting from March 19th to 21st. Arielle Derival-Joseph of the Wheelock College of Education... More
ED Investigations; Continuing Resolution; Policymakers
BU IN DC Dean Scott Taylor and Kaija Schilde of the Pardee School of Global Studies attended an alumni and student reception hosted by Paul Nathanson (Pardee '85) on March 11th. Graduate students from the Pardee School spent the week in Washington, DC, learning about careers in the nation's capital. Kurt Cavender... More
NIH Nominee; Research Security; Science Communication
BU IN DC The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee advanced the nomination of Stephen Miran (CAS ’05) to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors on March 6th. TRANSITION UPDATES: NOMINEES AND ANTISEMITISM TASK FORCE The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on Wednesday to consider... More
Gilliam in DC; OSTP; Budget
PRESIDENT GILLIAM VISITS CAPITOL HILL President Melissa Gilliam met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to discuss the importance of the partnership between the federal government and universities. In conversations with Congresswomen Jen Kiggans (R-VA, PAR '93), Lois Frankel (D-FL, CAS '70), and Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Gilliam touted the impact of... More
HHS Personnel; Budget Resolutions; DEI Guidance
BU IN DC President Emeritus Robert A. Brown spoke at the Summit on Higher Education Finance and the Economy on February 14th. Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering Yannis Paschalidis spoke at the National Science Foundation's Inaugural National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Annual Meeting on... More