STH Students Travel to US-Mexico Border to Learn Migrant Ministry
Travel seminar trip an education in the miseries facing immigrants Students in STH’s Arizona/Mexico Border Seminar spent more than a week in Arizona and Mexico in January immersing themselves in the existence of migrants and those who minister to them. A second group will do the same next week over spring break. STH students travel […]
Improving Life in Lebanon’s Refugee Camps
ENG students, researcher apply engineering skills to real-life problems There are nearly one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and about 350,000 of them make their temporary home in the Bekaa Valley. Just outside Zahle, the valley’s largest city, tens of thousands live in shelters made of wood, plastic sheets, and corrugated iron. Photo courtesy Helen […]
Teaching’s Diversity Problem
Travis Bristol is working to keep male teachers of color in public schools Travis Bristol was just 22 when he arrived at Manhattan Hunter Science High School in September 2004, armed with a bachelor’s from Amherst, a master’s from Stanford, and a passion for introducing New York City 10th graders to the intellectual thrills of Candide, Oedipus […]
Six Quick Stats about Applicants to the Class of 2022
Record-breaking 64,470 applied, surge in those seeking early decision Half of the students who apply to BU have never set foot on campus. Current students can help them navigate, should they attend. Photo by Janice Checchio. A record-breaking 64,470 students applied to the BU Class of 2022 Applicants’ average GPA is 3.66, average SAT score […]
House Bill Targets Federal Aid for Needy and Grad Students
BU, peers raise red flags about reauthorization of 1965 education act BU and other universities fear seats for needy and graduate students will go unfilled under a House bill that would cut federal aid. Photo by Janice Checchio. US House bill whacks federal aid for poor and graduate students BU president writes University’s congressman about […]
SPH Seminar: US Surgeon General Urges More Aid for Opioid Addicts
“We have to make it easier to get help than to get high” Jerome M. Adams, the US surgeon general,speaking at a School of Public Health Dean’s Seminar on the nation’s opioid crisis on January 26. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Before a standing-room-only crowd at the Medical Campus last Thursday, Jerome M. Adams, US surgeon general, […]
SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal
Weekend hackathon tackles the gender gap in computer science A negative experience at a New York hackathon gave Fiona Whittington (COM’19) the idea for SheHacks Boston. Photo by Jake Belcher. Fiona Whittington went to her first hackathon by herself. It didn’t go well. “When I walked in some guy came up to me and was like, […]
New CFA Dean Is Arts Historian and Advocate
Harvey Young champions transformative experiences of the arts Harvey Young, a prominent theater historian and arts advocate, is the new dean of the College of Fine Arts. Young comes to BU from Northwestern University, where he was chair of the School of Communication department of theatre. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Young authored the award-winning book Embodying […]
University Launches $20 Million Innovate@BU Initiative for Students
BUild Lab: IDG Capital Student Innovation Center a hub for thinkers, doers, makers, innovators Gerald Fine, who leads, and helped create, ENG’s Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC), has been named executive director of Innovate@BU, a $20 million University-wide initiative giving all students the opportunity to engage in solving real-world problems and hands-on innovation. Photo by […]
BU Promotes Diversity in STEM Fields with NSF Grants
At MED, students from underrepresented groups learn about careers beyond medicine BU has three National Science Foundation grants to promote diversity in STEM fields; the principal investigators are Linda Hyman, associate provost for the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences (from left), Sarah Hokanson, director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS […]