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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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
Campus Antisemitism, Federal Budget, Health Data Science
BU IN DC Ayse Coskun of the College of Engineering attended the Computing Research Association's Leadership in Science Policy Institute on November 16th and 17th. Anthony Jack of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development addressed a meeting of the Association of American Universities Education Deans, which was also attended by Dean... More
AI Executive Order, Energy Research, DC Rotations
BU IN DC Vice President and Associate Provost for BU Virtual Wendy Colby spoke at the Online and Professional Education Association's Convergence conference on November 2nd. School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea met with staff in the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention on November 1st. Nahid Bhadelia of... More
House Speaker, AI Forum, ESG Research
BU IN DC President ad interim Kenneth Freeman attended the fall membership meeting of the Association of American Universities from October 22nd through 24th. Leslie Dietiker of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development attended the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting between October 25th and 28th. Dennis Carlberg of... More
NIH Director, Biosafety Hearing, AI Research
BU IN DC Karen Antman, Provost of the Medical Campus and Dean of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, addressed the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence as part of its Icons in Oncology series on October 16th. Brooke Blower of the College of Arts & Sciences discussed her... More
Averted Shutdown, ED Actions, DARPA BAA
BU IN DC School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea spoke on the future of epidemiology at a meeting of the National Institutes of Health Environmental Influxes on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort Consortium on October 2nd. Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs Daniel Kleinman attended the Association of Graduate Schools meeting at... More
Shutdown, ARPA-H Hub, Cancer Research
BU IN DC Raul Fernandez of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development gave a presentation at the D.C. Futures conference on college completion on September 23rd. Dennis Carlberg of BU Sustainability spoke at the Greenbuild 2023 Conference on building a decarbonized future in Boston on September 26th. Roscoe Giles... More
NIH Director, Regulating AI, Empathic Communication
BU IN DC Provost ad interim Kenneth Lutchen attended the Association of American Universities Chief Academic Officers meeting from September 10th through 12th. Dean David Chard and Leslie Dietiker of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development attended the LEARN Coalition's fall meeting on September 12th. Dietiker discussed education research... More
Biden Science Priorities, NIAID Director, Legacy Admissions
BU IN DC Nathan Jones of the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development began his term as commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education on August 28th. Nicole Huberfeld of the School of Law moderated the third installment of... More