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 the Work of Florence Nightingale Available
Gotlieb Center spearheads collaboration to digitize the letters of the founder of modern nursing Since the launch of the Florence Nightingale Digitization Project in August 2014, more than 2,000 letters written by Nightingale have been digitized and added to a comprehensive online database. BU’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is one of the collaborating partners […]
Diagnosing CTE During Life
$16 million to detect brain trauma disease in living victims Robert Stern, a MED professor and clinical core director of BU’s NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center. Photo courtesy of Stern. Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been awarded a $16 million grant […]
Why Money Flows Uphill
Power brokers choose economic efficiency over equality—in contrast to average Americans—economist Ray Fisman finds in study The majority of Americans tell pollsters they think income inequality is too high. Why then, asks behavioral economist Ray Fisman, has the response from policymakers been so tepid—even under popular two-term Democratic presidents? Photo (to the right) by Jackie […]
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 […]
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 […]
BU Talks Climate Action at the White House
Pledges to reduce its carbon emissions by 35 percent.
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 […]