Big Data and Improving Health Care
Data scientist and physician team up to reduce preventable hospitalizations By: Suzanne Jacobs Big Data Meets Healthcare—Bill Adams, a physician and medical informatician, and Yannis Paschalidis, a data scientist and engineer, are working together to use data from electronic health records to reduce preventable hospitalizations and cut health care costs. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Yannis […]
Charles River Campus Has 21 New Full Professors
Movin’ on up in five colleges Faculty from five BU schools on the Charles River Campus have been promoted to full professor. Photo by Robert Dolan. Beholding creation, Christopher Schneider longs to understand the forces—evolution, environment, history—that have woven the astounding tapestry of living things. He researches how animal ecology acts with those forces in […]
NSF CAREER Award Goes to ENG Prof
Thin rod study has potential for smart needles, robotic arms ENG’s Douglas Holmes will receive $500,000 over the next five years to study the mechanics of how thin rods move through tissue and other soft, fragile media. Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering. Thin rods and other active materials that can bend and fold […]