Five Things COVID-19 Might Do to Young Adults’ Mental Health
BU social worker will probe how COVID-19 hits the mental health of America’s future workforce, and what makes some people more resilient
Gifts Endow Three New Career Development Professorships
Awards go to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty Jessica Simes, a CAS assistant professor of sociology, who studies incarceration and race, has been awarded the first University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. Photo (right) by Cydney Scott. When Jessica Simes was an undergraduate at Occidental College, she was captivated by issues of race and privilege in […]
Interest in Computer Science Surges
Enrollment is way up, and more women are signing on Senior lecturer Dave Sullivan says changes in the Introduction to Computer Science course CS 111 have made it more appealing to students in general and women in particular. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it […]