Obama: An Intimate Portrait Chronicles Eight Extraordinary Years
New photo book by chief official White House photographer Pete Souza (COM’76) President Barack Obama at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, October 14, 2016. Official White House photo by Pete Souza. Alum Pete Souza was Barack Obama’s chief White House photographer New photo book has moments from historic drama to family intimacy Souza’s Instagram […]
Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion
Bill for each taxpayer is $23,386 Neta C. Crawford, a CAS professor of political science, codirects the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She includes the costs of health care and disability compensation in her accounting. Photo by Cydney Scott. How do you count the costs of […]
Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns
BU student’s website tracks all demonstrations against current administration Earlier this year Tommy Leung (left) and Nathan Perkins (MED’18) launched a website that chronicles all protests against the current administration, hoping to give the data to government officials as evidence of the issues their constituents are passionate about. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Meet Tommy Leung […]
Aaron Hernandez’s CTE Worst Seen by BU Experts in a Young Person
MED’s Ann McKee says convicted killer’s brain will advance research Ann McKee, director of BU’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, found a degenerative brain disease in Aaron Hernandez after his death. She discussed her findings with reporters at a news conference on Thursday. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Aaron Hernandez had most extreme CTE BU researchers have […]
Collegiate Inventors Winner: BU Graduate Student, Ning Mao
2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition graduate student gold winner Ning Mao (ENG’17) won $10,000 for her invention Engineered Probiotics, an engineered safe bacterium that inhibits the progression of a cholera infection. It provides early detection and helps contain spread of the disease. The technology could be adapted to fight other types of bacterial infections. Photo by […]
BU Police Chief Appointed to Governor’s Hate Crimes Task Force
Kelly Nee brings wealth of experience as career law enforcement officer BUPD Chief Kelly Nee (second from left) and other members of a new hate crimes task force with Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (center, back), who reestablished the group. Photo by Kristina McComb for the Office of the Governor. BUPD chief appointed to state hate […]
BU, Higher Ed Peers Mobilize against Congressional Tax Bill
Employee tuition benefits, student loan deductibility among legislation’s casualties.
Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team
Armed with $12 million, researchers aim for early detection of lung cancer MED’s Avrum Spira, a pulmonary physician scientist who has devoted his career to research on early detection of lung cancer, leads a Stand Up to Cancer lung cancer interception dream team. Photo by Cydney Scott. Can lung cancer, rarely diagnosed until it’s in […]
American-Made Innovation Sparking Economic Growth
Abraham (center), with the team in her MED lab. Photo by Cydney Scott. The Science Coalition in conjunction with the House R&D Caucus hosted a panel discussion at the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. BU’s own Carmela Abraham and the leaders of eight cutting-edge companies held a forum about how federally-funded […]
Searching for Life around the Stars
BU researcher studies M Dwarfs for clues Is there life out there? Mark Veyette studies the most common star type in our solar system for clues. Photo by Cydney Scott. To the epic search for life on other planets, Mark Veyette brings some of science’s most formidable technology: 300-pound infrared telescopes in Hawaii. The supercomputer […]