In the Classroom: Translating Passion into Action
“Advocacy is like a baby crying in church,” Harold Cox said to the collected students. “She knows she needs to communicate with Mom to get what she wants, and Mom is interested in helping the baby and giving her what she needs—but she also sees all of these people trying to strain their necks to look back […]
Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?
CAS, Questrom experts contracted by Hub to help cut carbon emissions to zero In 2007, Boston joined cities around the globe in the 80×50 pledge—a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. In 2016 that was changed to 100 percent. BU is helping. Photo by Oleksandr Dibrova. By the middle of the […]
NSF Awards $3 Million for Research Traineeship Grant
Will prepare a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists to tackle urban environmental problems Boston University faculty Lucy Hutyra (from left), Pamela Templer, and Jonathan Levy are leading an NSF Research Traineeship program aimed at providing graduate students the technical, policy, and communications skills needed to help cities address multidimensional environmental and public health issues. Photo […]
Poet Crystal Ann Williams First Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
Former Bates College administrator’s goal: to build on BU’s forward momentum Poet and administrator Crystal Ann Williams started this week as BU’s first associate provost for diversity and inclusion. Photo by Brian Fitzgerald. BU has named an award-winning poet to the newly created position of associate provost for diversity and inclusion. Charged with promoting diversity […]
Professor Receives Department of Justice Award
Bindu Kalesan at the SPH event, “Gun Violence: Stories Behind the Numbers,” on September 28. Bindu Kalesan, assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine and assistant professor of community health sciences at the School of Public Health, is the recipient of a three-year, $693,695 award from the US Department of Justice to study […]
BU-Wheelock Merger Will Create New College
With complementary programs and expertise, BU grows, Wheelock’s mission endures Boston University and Wheelock College have agreed to merge, a move that will combine BU’s School of Education with Wheelock’s School of Education, Child Life and Family Studies. The new school will be called the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Photo by Cydney […]
A “Turbo Charge” for Your Brain?
CAS prof’s research could lead to tools to enhance brain function, treat disorders Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the “alarm bell of the brain.” “If you make an error, this brain area fires,” says Reinhart, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences. “If I tell you that you […]
Three NSF Grants Will Promote Diversity in STEM
Medical school will guide students from underrepresented groups to career paths beyond medicine Left to right: Linda Hyman, associate provost for MED’s Division of Graduate Medical Sciences; Sarah Hokanson, BU director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS professor of biology, are each principal investigators on National Science Foundation grants aimed […]
Remembering Howard Eichenbaum
Memorial to be held on campus Thursday Family, friends, and colleagues will speak at a memorial for Howard Eichenbaum, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a CAS professor of psychological and brain sciences, on Thursday, October 5, in the Trustees Ballroom. Photo (left) by Dan Kirksey, KDKC Photos, Escondido, California. A memorial will be […]
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 […]