Ayanna Pressley Tells BU Students: “Stand in Your Truth”
BU College Democrats host Massachusetts US representative at town hall Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (center): “BU invested in me.… I poured into it, and it poured into me.” Photo by Cydney Scott. US Representative Ayanna Pressley, the candidate who upended Massachusetts’ political order a year ago and has become one of President Trump’s fiercest critics […]
Meet BU’s Six CAREER Award Recipients
These BU researchers will use their National Science Foundation funding to develop new methods and solutions in their fields of study Boston University researchers recently received CAREER awards, granted from the National Science Foundation, with one of the six winners investigating space weather in order to safeguard satellites and other orbiting technologies making their way […]
BU’s URBAN Enables PhD Students to Study People’s Health and the Earth’s
Program offers a unique marriage of disciplines Paige Brochu (SPH’18,’22) gathered data to map a proposed urban forest for Providence, R.I. Portrait by Jackie Ricciardi. Photo of Providence, R.I. by Denis Tangney Jr./iStock. Planting a tree in your yard can increase your property value, while helping to fight climate change (trees absorb carbon dioxide, a […]
BU Advances in U.S. News & World Report National Universities Rankings
University also among most innovative schools, magazine says BU advanced in the U.S. News rankings of the country’s best national universities and is also one of the most innovative. Photo by Adele Bertschy (Sargent’20). BU advanced two spots, to number 40, in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of National Universities, released Monday. The […]
Your Race May Factor in Which ER an Ambulance Takes You To
BU researchers also find that, regardless of race, 40 percent of patients transported by EMS are not brought to the nearest hospital Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have discovered large differences between the emergency department and hospital destinations of black and Hispanic patients transported by EMS in comparison with their white counterparts. Photo […]
Class of 2023 Formally Welcomed into the BU Family at Annual Matriculation Ceremony
Pumped-up Naomi Caines (CAS’23) (center, left) and Ying Chu (CAS’23) during the Class of 2023 Matriculation ceremony on September 1. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. In his Matriculation address to the approximately 3,100 newly arrived members of the Class of 2023 and their families on Sunday, BU President Robert A. Brown touched on themes of tolerance […]
FYSOP, Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary, Launches
Annual volunteer service project for first-year students begins today Last year, FYSOP coordinators Lucina Hawkins (CAS’21) and Ana Paula Gushken (ENG’20) packed up paper lanterns while volunteering at Spontaneous Celebrations, a nonprofit arts group in Jamaica Plain. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. When BU’s First-Year Student Outreach Project (FYSOP), a weeklong community service program run by […]
BU Boosts Financial Aid to 100 Percent of Calculated Need
Initiative will meet full need for qualifying domestic students entering in fall 2020. Photo by Cydney Scott. In a continuing effort to make a BU education affordable and to create a more socioeconomically diverse campus, the University is expanding its financial aid program to meet the full need for all domestic students who qualify for […]
Anthony Janetos Remembered for His Leadership, Dedication, and Scholarship
World-renowned CAS expert on climate change died Tuesday Anthony Janetos, an internationally renowned climate change researcher and director of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, died August 6, following a brief illness. Photo (left) by Jackie Ricciardi. Anthony Janetos was not only an internationally renowned expert on climate change, […]
The FBI and CDC Datasets Agree: Who Has Guns—Not Which Guns—Linked to Murder Rates
Two BU studies, one shared finding: State gun laws restricting who has access to guns significantly reduces rates of firearm-related homicide SPH Professor Michael Siegel. Photo by Cydney Scott. As the United States reels from three back-to-back mass shootings—which occurred within the span of eight days in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Tex., and Dayton, Ohio—Boston […]