YouSpeak: Who Has Your Vote?
By BU Today Staff. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi With Super Tuesday this week, BU Today polls students about candidates, issues One thing that can be said about this year’s presidential campaign: it has been unpredictable. Who would have imagined a year ago that former Florida governor and presumed Republican front-runner Jeb Bush would drop out just weeks […]
MET’s Online Criminal Justice Program Tops U.S. News Rankings
Computer information, management also lead among online offerings Every Metropolitan College online program has been ranked in the top 10 of its category for three years running. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Metropolitan College’s online master’s program in criminal justice is the best in the country in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of online academic […]
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 […]
UROP Student’s Project: A Thinking Robot
Self-directed ‘bot can identify objects In the following video, watch Emily Fitzgerald’s artificially intelligent robot. “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But […]
Interest in Computer Science Surges
Enrollment is way up, and more women are signing on Senior lecturer Dave Sullivan says changes in the Introduction to Computer Science course CS 111 have made it more appealing to students in general and women in particular. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it […]
New MED Curriculum Aimed at Stemming Explosive Rise in Opioid Misuse
Response to governor’s request for help from medical schools Daniel Alford (SPH’86, MED’92), a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and the assistant dean for continuing medical education, is leading the effort to expand MED’s opioid and addiction curriculum. Photo by Cydney Scott. Massachusetts—like the rest of the nation—is in the grip of a […]
Four Decades Forward: SPH Celebrates 40th Anniversary
MED offshoot now an international leader in research, graduate education Dean Sandro Galea in front of the Talbot Building, home of the BU School of Public Health, which kicks off its 40th anniversary celebration this month. Photo by Dan Aguirre. When the School of Public Health launches a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary tonight, […]
Zika: The Next Pandemic
SPH professor concerned about virus, but also “prepared to be alarmed” The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue, chikungunya, and zika. On February 1, 2016, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), declared Zika virus “a public health emergency of international concern.” Chan’s statement said the 2016 outbreak is an “extraordinary event” and […]
Terrorism Expert Joins Pardee School of Global Studies
Jessica Stern on how ISIS works and what we can do to stop it Terrorism expert Jessica Stern, who has joined the Pardee School faculty, inspired Nicole Kidman’s character in The Peacemaker. Photo courtesy of Jessica Stern. Working with a military intelligence officer, a future BU professor hunted for terrorists who’d stolen a nuclear bomb, […]
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 […]