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 Advances Budget Resolutions
BU IN DC Tulika Bose and Kevin Black of the College of Arts & Sciences met with Congressional staff to discuss research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the U.S. Large Hadron Collider Users Association's advocacy efforts the week of March 23. CONGRESS ADVANCES BUDGET RESOLUTIONS The U.S. House of... More
Senate Education Committee Chair Seeks Input
BU IN DC Dean Sandro Galea and faculty of the School of Public Health attended the Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health's annual meeting between March 22 and 25. School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman and faculty members Scott Solberg, Johanna Ennser-Kananen, Katherine Frankel, Gregg Harbaugh and Melissa Holt held an alumni... More
Congress Releases 2016 Budget Blueprints
BU IN DC President Robert A. Brown attended the board of directors meeting of the American Council on Education on March 13 and 14. Stephen Burgay of External Affairs and Amy Hook of Marketing & Communications participated in the Association of American Universities Public Affairs Network meeting from March 14 through March... More
MA Universities Urge Research, Student Support
BU IN DC Strom Thacker of the College of Arts & Sciences and the Pardee School of Global Studies participated in the Consortium of Social Science Association's annual meeting and advocacy day on March 9 and 10. MA UNIVERSITIES URGE RESEARCH, STUDENT SUPPORT As Congress begins its annual budget process, Boston University, Harvard University, and... More
National Cancer Institute Director to Step Down
BU IN DC Richard Saitz of the Schools of Public Health and Medicine discussed "The Latest in Addiction Research" during a National Press Foundation event on February 24. Tony Janetos of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Futuretook part in a meeting of the Department of Energy's Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee, on... More
Senate Holds Hearing On Higher Ed Regulations
BU IN DC Karen Antman, Provost of the Medical Campus and Dean of the School of Medicine, attended the Board of Directors meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges on February 23 and 24. Dean Sandro Galea of the School of Public Health attended a meeting of the National Advisory Council on Minority Health... More
Lawmakers See BU Impact
BU IN DC College of Arts & Sciences Dean Virginia Sapiro participated in the Brookings Institution's Forum on the Economy and Higher Education on February 13. David Jones of the School of Public Health attended the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference on February 9 and 10. Ron Corley and Nahid Bhadelia of the National... More
Senators Identify Higher Ed Regulatory Burdens
BU IN DC Ron Corley, director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, attended the American Society for Microbiology's Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting on February 9 and 10. Kevin Gallagher of the Pardee School of Global Studies conducted a briefing on the growing economic ties between China and Latin America... More
President Issues Budget Request for 2016
BU IN DC Gloria Waters, associate provost and vice president for research, attended a Universities Research Association meeting on February 4. Christine McGuire, associate vice president of enrollment and student affairs, participated in the National Direct Student Loan Coalition's national loan forum on February 2 and 3. Ambassador Charles Stith of the African Presidential Archives and... More
White House Forum on Aging Coming to Boston
BU IN DC Graham Wilson, Nathan Phillips and David Glick of the College of Arts & Sciences and Conor LeBlanc of the Initiative on Cities hosted an Urban Seminar Series panel on the Initiative's 21st Century Mayors Leadership Survey on January 27 at the BU Washington, DC Programs office. Roscoe Giles of the College of Engineering testified on exascale computing before the Energy Subcommittee... More