SDM Pediatric Dental Clinic Serves the Underserved
Changing lives one filling at a time At the new Goldman School of Dental Medicine Pediatric Oral Healthcare Center’s treatment fair: three-year-old Levi McBride of Dorchester with Yasmin Alayyoubi (SDM’17) (from left), center director Dolrudee Jumlongras, an SDM clinical assistant professor, Athanasios Zavras, an SDM professor and chair of pediatric dentistry, and Stephen Prieve (SDM’18). […]
BU’s Health-Related Schools Score in US News Rankings
MED gets its best-ever, Sargent’s OT is number one Research, like that done by Greg Wasserman (MED’16) (left) and Katrina Traber, a MED assistant professor, in BU’s Pulmonary Center, earned the School of Medicine a best-ever ranking from US News. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU schools that train healers of various stripes notched impressive showings […]
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 […]
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 […]
Asian American Women’s Health
Hyeouk “Chris” Hahm, School of Social Work (SSW) Professor at Boston University, discussed her research with White House and Congressional officials on October 9. Photo by Jennifer Grodsky. Hahm is a founder of SSW’s Asian American Women’s Health Initiative Project and its offshoot, a federally funded BU-based study called AWARE (Asian Women’s Action for Resilience and […]
“In the Service of the City”
BU and Boston: a heritage of partnership By: BU Today Staff Community service and support and extensive financial contributions—from public works projects to scholarships for public school students—are part of the mission laid out by BU’s third president, Lemuel Murlin. Photo by Flickr contributor Thomas Hawk. The School of Education students working in the fourth-grade classroom […]
SPH Students Create Multi-Faceted Program for South End Community Center
Rupal Shah, left, and Sarah Stevens answer questions from judges James Wolff, professor of global health, and Gail Steketee, dean of the School of Social Work. In just five tightly focused days, a team of SPH students created a far-ranging plan that might help a South End community center improve the health of the people […]
National AIDS Policy Director Urges Collaboration on HIV/AIDS
SSW alum keynote speaker at addiction conference in Boston Douglas Brooks (SSW’99) encouraged attendees at last week’s Addiction Health Services Research Conference, sponsored by Boston University, to think of new ways to identify, screen, and attain care for people living with HIV. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Lena Lundgren felt like a “proud mama,” she said […]