Trump’s Top Intelligence Advisor Visits BU
Dan Coats speaks to Pardee School of Global Studies students and faculty Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence (standing), spoke with students and faculty at BU’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies on September 29. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. The man responsible for briefing President Donald Trump daily on national and global security issues […]
New Book by BU Researchers Teaches Natural Selection to Children
Presents complex concepts in storybook form Conventional wisdom holds that natural selection is too complex for young children to grasp and so should not be taught until middle and high school. The problem with that wisdom, as Deborah Kelemen’s research has shown, is that by middle school, kids’ intuitive biases have taken hold, making it […]
BU, Other Researchers: Can Critical Consciousness Close the Opportunity Gap?
Studying how schools engage students of color in challenging racial inequity The results were in. Studies showed young people of color fared better in school and society if they knew how to analyze, navigate, and challenge racism and racial inequality. But what role could secondary schools play in fostering this so-called critical consciousness? That’s what Scott […]
The Five Oddest Clauses in the U.S. Constitution
LAW’s Jay Wexler sheds light on nation’s founding document If concerns that Donald Trump is getting emoluments have you diving for the dictionary, that’s just one curious section of the US Constitution, BU’s Jay Wexler says. Photo by giftlegacy/iStock. From his revised travel ban, issued Sunday, to his outside business income, since taking office President Trump has […]
Researcher Comes Back to BU to Work on the Science of Memory
Steve Ramirez continues groundbreaking efforts at Kilachand Center Steve Ramirez (CAS’10) aims to “learn how memory works and then how to hijack it.” Photo by Cydney Scott. Because Steve Ramirez frequently attends neuroscience conferences around the world, he recently joined the Global Entry Program, which fast-tracks frequent flyers returning to the United States. “I was telling my dad […]
BU Researchers ID Possible Biomarker for Diagnosing CTE during Life
MED’s Ann McKee calls findings a hopeful step Ann McKee (left), director of BU’s CTE Center, and Jonathan Cherry, a School of Medicine postdoctoral fellow, have written a study, published Tuesday, reporting that a new chronic traumatic encephalopathy biomarker has been discovered that could potentially allow diagnosis of the disease during life. Photo by Cydney […]
Transfers Welcomed to BU
University helps with credits, housing, financial aid Kenneth Elmore (SED’87), associate provost and dean of students, with transfer students at a reception held earlier this fall. Photo by Maddie Malhotra (COM’19). Kyna Xu felt like she wasn’t thriving midway through her freshman year at a New York area school. Her classes, the people she met, […]
BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Wins $5.4 Million NIH Grant
Will fund research on early diagnostics, genetic risk factors, interventions Andrew Budson directs the Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s National Institutes of Health–funded efforts to educate clinicians and the public in better understanding the disease and related disorders as well as to encourage people to participate in research. Photo by Cydney Scott. The National Institute on Aging, […]
BU Doubles Number of Posse Scholars
University’s 10-year partnership with program adds Bay Area cohort April Woo (Questrom’21) is one of several Bay Area students attending BU under an expansion of the University’s partnership with the Posse Foundation. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. She hadn’t seen it coming, April Woo confesses, when her college and career counselor stopped her in the hallway […]
BU to Supreme Court: Kill Trump Travel Ban
Joins 30 other academic institutions in friends of the court brief Even if the travel ban is rescinded, it probably has dissuaded some students from attending college in America already, BU and other universities tell the Supreme Court. For the third time this year, BU and other universities have gone to court—this time, the highest […]