ENG Makes Highest-Ever Grade in US News Rankings
Questrom, SED, LAW also do well Interdisciplinary research helped the College of Engineering to secure ample outside funding and a personal best in the latest US News rankings. Photo by Cydney Scott. The College of Engineering has earned its highest-ever ranking from US News & World Report, placing 35th among its peer American schools in […]
Show Me the Data
First BU Data Science Day draws cross-disciplinary crowd Azer Bestavros, director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (center), and the cochairs of Hariri’s first BU Data Science Day, Prakash Ishwar (left) and Dino Christenson (right), were delighted by the large, cross-disciplinary crowd that came together to talk about how data […]
Making a Better World, from Neuroscience to Sandwiches
Social goals drive alums on Forbes 30-Under-30 list Christine Baugh (SPH’12) was recognized by Forbes for her work on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and its link to concussions in sports. Photo by Cydney Scott. Christine Baugh joined the School of Medicine Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center as a research coordinator in 2010, when it was just a handful […]
Why Money Flows Uphill
Power brokers choose economic efficiency over equality—in contrast to average Americans—economist Ray Fisman finds in study The majority of Americans tell pollsters they think income inequality is too high. Why then, asks behavioral economist Ray Fisman, has the response from policymakers been so tepid—even under popular two-term Democratic presidents? Photo (to the right) by Jackie […]
New BU LAW Clinic Helps MIT Student Entrepreneurs
Advising on new venture, intellectual property legal issues Kelvin Chan (LAW’16) (left) and Nathaniel Gray (LAW’16) are two of the eight BU LAW students working in the Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic, a new collaboration between BU and MIT. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Rishan Mohamed has almost everything he needs to build his planned tech […]
The Curious Case of the Light Cigarette
What happens when consumers take things for granted? Stine Grodal, Questrom assistant professor of strategy and innovation, has studied the evolution of light cigarettes. Photo by Michael D. Spencer. In the mid-1960s, a new type of cigarette appeared in America. Manufacturers called them “lights,” and advertised that more sophisticated filters, highly porous paper, and new […]
Preventing an Antibiotic Apocalypse
The business model for drug innovation is broken — universities key to figuring out fixes, says health law prof By: Sara Rimer Kevin Outterson is a leading scholar on the economic and legal global framework needed to combat resistance and keep antibiotics available for future generations. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. When Kevin Outterson, a professor […]
Paul Gugliuzza To Testify Before The House Subcommittee About Patent Reform
The professor of intellectual property law will offer his expertise on patent demand letters. Published by BU Law: Associate Professor of Law Paul Gugliuzza has been called to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on Thursday, February 26, 2015. The hearing, chaired by Michael C. Burgess (R-TX), […]
LAW Dean Named One of Nation’s Most Influential Legal Educators
Maureen O’Rourke honored for spearheading legal education reforms LAW Dean Maureen O’Rourke is one of four newcomers named to the National Jurist’s annual list of the 25 most influential people in legal education. Photo by Dan Aguirre. School of Law Dean Maureen O’Rourke has just been named one of the nation’s top legal educators. Earlier […]
Remembering a Pioneering Politician
Alum Edward Brooke, first black US senator since Reconstruction, has died BU alumnus Edward Brooke, who died January 3, poses as Massachusetts’s attorney general in 1963. Photo by BU Photography. “I never studied much at Howard [University], but at Boston University, I didn’t do much else but study.” Far from resenting BU’s School of Law […]