Jorge Delva Chosen as New School of Social Work Dean
Nationally recognized expert on economically disadvantaged assumes post in January Jorge Delva, incoming dean of the School of Social Work, is a prolific author and researcher and a nationally recognized scholar. Photo by Cydney Scott. Immigrated to Hawaii from Chile at age 16 Expert in substance abuse and ethnic health disparities Holds a second-degree black […]
BU Relaunches Search for Permanent SED Dean
Catherine O’Connor to serve as 2017–2018 interim dean Catherine O’Connor, a School of Education professor of language education, has been appointed SED dean ad interim for one year, starting July 1. Photo by Cydney Scott. Boston University will relaunch its search for a new dean of the School of Education in the coming academic year, […]
Engineering Dean Named to NSF Engineering Panel
Joins leaders from academia and industry who provide advice on support for research, education Kenneth R. Lutchen, dean of the Boston University College of Engineering. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Kenneth R. Lutchen, dean of Boston University College of Engineering, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee for Engineering, a panel of […]
Sandro Galea’s Vision for Public Health
SPH dean emphasizes social justice issues like race, poverty Sandro Galea switched careers after a stint with Doctors Without Borders, leaving the immediate gratification of medicine to labor in the vineyard of public health. Photo By Eric Levin. Sandro Galea stood with his backpack at the edge of a small airstrip in Mendi, Papua New […]
Introducing the New Dean of Arts & Sciences
Ann Cudd comes from post as University of Kansas vice provost Video of Ann Cudd, new dean of Arts & Sciences, discusses academia and her hopes for BU. Photo by Dan Aguirre. The new dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is an academic’s academic. Ann Cudd jokes that she and her […]
What the T Can Tell Us about Health Inequalities
A pictorial essay Sandro Galea is dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health and a professor of epidemiology. Photo courtesy of Sandro Galea. There are many lenses through which to examine the health of a community. For example, Massachusetts has about 315 doctors per 100,000 people—more than 10 percent higher than the next closest state […]
Introducing the New Dean of Arts & Sciences
Ann Cudd comes from post as University of Kansas vice provost The new dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences is an academic’s academic. Ann Cudd jokes that she and her economist husband discuss the insights of economics so often that their three children “speak in terms of opportunity cost and […]