New Program Teaches How to Help Students with Mental Health Issues
Terriers Connect trains faculty, staff, peers to be proactive First responders aren’t always police and firefighters who race to the scene with lights and sirens. For students facing mental health issues, the first person approached for help may be a peer, a faculty member, an RA, a coach, or an administrator. Now a new BU […]
Diagnosing CTE During Life
$16 million to detect brain trauma disease in living victims Robert Stern, a MED professor and clinical core director of BU’s NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center. Photo courtesy of Stern. Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been awarded a $16 million grant […]
Task Force Focusing on Faculty Diversity Created
Will consider new ways to increase underrepresented minorities A new task force comprising 18 faculty and staff members from both the Charles River and the Medical Campuses will address how to increase faculty diversity at BU. Photo by Cydney Scott. Earlier this semester, President Robert A. Brown and Jean Morrison, BU provost, appointed a task […]
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 […]