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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Congress Poised to Fund Government Through April
BU IN DC Timothy Longman, Peter Quella, Dan Connell, John Thornton, Linda Heywood, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor of the African Studies Center and Pardee School of Global Studies; Karl Haas of the College of Fine Arts; and Fallou Ngom, Zophia Edwards, Cynthia Becker, Parker Shipton, Kehinde Ajayi, James McCann, Christopher Conz, Sarah Westwood, Benjamin Twagira, and Odile Cazenave of the... More
Brown, Waters Meet with Policymakers
BU IN DC Anthony Janetos of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and Daniel Segrè of the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering participated in a meeting of the Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Energy, of which... More
Congressional Leadership, Priorities Take Shape
BU IN DC BU faculty staff have been busy in Washington this fall. Here are just a few of your colleagues who recently visited the nation's capital: College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen attended the fall meeting of the National Science Foundation's Engineering Advisory Council, of which he is a member, on... More
Election Transforms Washington
BU IN DC Congress may have been out of session, but BU faculty and staff had plenty of reasons to come to Washington, D.C., since the last edition of Beltway BUzz. Here are just a few, stay tuned for more next week. Jennifer Bender of the College of Arts & Sciences attended the Our Ocean... More
Congress Funds Agencies Through December 9
BU IN DC President Robert and Beverly Brown, Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore and Ray Joyce of the School of Theology, Dean of Students Kenn Elmore, Trustees Andrea Taylor and Carol Fulp, Katherine Kennedy of the Howard Thurman Center, Senior Vice President Scott Nichols, Steve Hall, Susan Richardson, Corinne Tramuta, Hilary Bokoff, and... More
BU in DC, Buzz Bits, Grants & Events News
BU IN DC Dean Hardin Coleman of the School of Education attended the Fall Policy Meeting of the American Educational Research Association's Consortium of University and Research Institutions on September 18 and 19. He also attended the LEARN Coalition meeting on September 20. Emir Morais of the School of Medicine took part... More
Subcommittee Examines College Costs
BU IN DC Dean Sandro Galea and Catherine Ettman of the School of Public Health met with Congressional offices about gun violence research on September 12. Galea also attended a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities, of which he is a member. Cornelius Hurley of the Center... More
NSF Requests Input on Strategic Plan
BU IN DC Vice President and Associate Provost for Research Gloria Waters attended a meeting of the University Research Forum at the Education Advisory Board on July 28. Peter Fox-Penner of the Institute for Sustainable Energy gave a presentation on climate change policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on August 2. Diane... More
Committee Proposes NIH Boost, ED Research Cut
BU IN DC Christine McGuire, Julie Wickstrom, David Janey, and Jana Haile of Financial Assistance, Cheryl Constantine of the School of Law and Janet Turner of Sargent College attended the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators National Conference from July 10 through 13. Kevin Gallagher of the Pardee School of Global Studies... More
Senate Committee Approves Research Bill
BU IN DC Ken Schulman, Kristina Whiton-O'Brien and Julia Monturo Larson of the School of Social Work participated in the National Association of Social Workers National Conference from June 22 through 25. Timothy Longman of the African Studies Center co-taught a seminar on genocide at the U.S. Holocaust Museum from June 27 through... More