Two Eyes Needed to Research Outer Space Static
CAS scientists view ionosphere from both hemispheres BU Imaging Science Laboratory researchers (from left) Carlos Martinis, Michael Mendillo, Joei Wroten, and Jeffrey Baumgardner. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Who says you can’t be two places at the same time? At an MIT observatory west of Boston, a BU-built, three-foot-long, tubular camera stares with feline patience at […]
Journalist Captive in Iran Given Hugo Shong Reporting on Asia Award
Washington Post writer honored by COM Speaking at the award ceremony were Washington Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl (from left), Ali Rezaian, and BU trustee Hugo Shong (COM’87). Photos by Cydney Scott. For the last 506 days, Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian has been imprisoned in an Iranian jail, held on vague charges […]
Digital Learning Initiative Announces New Grants
Support for faculty developing online education innovations Helping disadvantaged students is a national goal; BU’s Mark Greenman is testing whether technology can better teach them physics. Could a cousin of the much-heralded MOOC help disadvantaged high school students take college-level classes? That’s what BU’s Mark Greenman and colleagues are test-driving in a project that is […]
Special Report: Into Africa
Three Fulbright Scholars, three countries, three perspectives on a changing region For many decades, Boston University’s African Studies Center (ASC) has produced top scholars in the field. Now part of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, the ASC trains students in multiple African languages and academic disciplines. In the last two years, 11 […]
At BMC, Food Is Medicine
Doctors and clinicians write food prescriptions to Preventive Food Pantry Latchman Hiralall, manager of Boston Medical Center’s Preventive Food Pantry (left), and food pantry assistant Juan Carlos Turcios prepare a cart of food for a patient. Photos by Dana J. Quigley. It’s 8:30 a.m. on a Friday and four men in the basement of the […]
BU Talks Climate Action at the White House
Pledges to reduce its carbon emissions by 35 percent.
Paris Perspective
In French capital, CAS historian James Johnson analyzes Friday’s tragedy A man places a candle in front of the Carillon cafe in Paris Saturday, November 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. AP Photo/Jerome Delay. France is under its first state of emergency in a […]
BU Satellite Team Gets Big Boost from NASA
Wireless sensors developed by BUSAT to be launched into space In the video above, BU Small Satellite Program students discuss and demonstrate their mini-satellites, which NASA will launch. On March 10, 1989, a solar eruption blasted plasma toward Earth. Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec noticed a hop-skip-and-jump in the voltage on its grid two days later. On […]
School of Medicine Launches Military Health Center
Conference tomorrow to showcase research to help servicepeople, vets Neurology resident Chantale Branson (left) and Anna Hohler, director of the new Center for Military and Post Deployment Health, at last year’s Joining Forces Conference. Photo by Ljiljana Popovic. More than half of the servicepeople who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan have service-related physical or mental […]
Street Doctor
How Jim O’Connell learned to shelve the stethoscope, and listen Jim O’Connell (right), president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. His memoir, Stories from the Shadows, describes his career as a street doctor. Photo courtesy of Jim O’Connell. Jim O’Connell, president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and a […]