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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Budget Deal Approved
BU IN DC College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen discussed engineering education with congressional offices as part of the American Society for Engineering Education's Public Policy Colloquium on February 6 and 7. School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea participated in a meeting of the National Academies Standing Committee on Medical and... More
President Delivers State of the Union Address
BU IN DC> Wen Li of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke on January 31 at a National Academies symposium celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Explorer 1 Mission and the discovery of the Earth's radiation belts. Shoumita Dasgupta of the School of Medicine spoke at a meeting of the Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics on February 1. PRESIDENT DELIVERS... More
Government Reopens After Shutdown
BU IN DC Graham Wilson, Katharine Lusk, Katherine Levine Einstein, David Glick, Maxwell Palmer, Stacy Fox, and Patricia Cahill of the Initiative on Citiesreleased the annual Menino Survey of Mayors at the National Press Club on January 23. Dean Sandro Galea of the School of Public Health discussed his book, Healthier, with more than 100 alumni at the Army Navy Country Club on... More
Government Shutdown Looms
BU IN DC Diane Baldwin and Ryan Russell of Sponsored Programs and Kate Mellouk of Research Compliance participated in the Federal Demonstration Project's meeting on January 8 and 9. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS The U.S. Senate is poised to vote on a continuing resolution that will keep the federal government operating at its current spending level through February 16, but the outcome of... More
Congress Sends Tax Bill to President
CONGRESS SENDS TAX BILL TO PRESIDENT Both chambers of Congress approved the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) this week, sending the measure to President Donald J. Trump for his signature. Unlike a previous version of the legislation voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives, the final bill preserves... More
FCC Rolls Back Net Neutrality Rules
BU IN DC Kevin Gallagher of the Pardee School of Global Studies addressed a Center for Strategic and International Studies roundtable on Chinese development finance in Latin America on December 12. FCC ROLLS BACK NET NEUTRALITY RULES On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal regulations that ensure Internet service providers... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
President Brown Meets With Press, Policymakers
BU IN DC Neta Crawford of the College of Arts & Sciences spoke at a Congressional briefing on the costs of war on November 8. Kate Saenko of the College of Arts & Sciences attended a meeting of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's Deep Intermodal Video Analytics program on November 7... More