University Continues Climb in U.S. News Rankings
Strategic plan, investment in faculty and students, drive progress BU’s four-way tie for 39th best college in the nation, as judged in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking, is its best-ever placement. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Boston University reached an all-time high in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, moving […]
A Point of Light
BU researcher creates images from single photons It’s difficult to capture clear photos in low light. One BU engineering professor thinks he may have solved the problem. Photo by tolokonov/iStock When you take a photo on a cloudy day with your average digital camera, the sensor detects trillions of photons. Photons, the elementary particles of […]
BU Covers the Democratic National Convention
COM students report live from Philadelphia for BU News Service Boston University News Service students Andrea Asuaje (COM’17) (from left), Jonathan Gang (COM’17), Michael Sol Warren (COM’17), and Michelle Johnson, a COM associate professor of journalism, work inside the media tent outside the Wells Fargo Center during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Pankaj […]
Center for Teaching & Learning Expands Efforts
BU Center for Teaching & Learning fellows: (back row, from left) Jonathan Hibbard, Christophor Cavalieri, Cheryl McSweeney, Kaija Schilde, Pary Fassihi, Peter Zink, and Scott Marr; (front row, from left) Sophie Hochhäusl, Gouri Gupte, center director Matthew Trevett-Smith, Bruce Anderson, and Rosina Georgiadis; (not pictured) Anthony Mecham. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Matthew Trevett-Smith sent an email […]
BU BioScience Academy Graduates 15
Year of intensive study and internships launch Class of 2016 in new career field View the slideshow to meet the 2016 graduates of BU’s BIoScience Academy certificate program. (Not pictured: Nandita Bhattacharaya). Photos by Cydney Scott. When Jesse Logan applied for a certificate program in applied biotechnology at BU’s BioScience Academy (BSA), she was at loose […]
New MOOC on Ethical Leadership Launches
Walter Fluker’s online course covers saints and sinners both Walter Fluker is a scholar of such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59), but his new online class also studies figures like the disgraced Richard Nixon and Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin. Photo by Cydney Scott. Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Idi Amin, Richard […]
US Attorney Tells LAW Grads: “Lend Your Voice, Lend Your Efforts”
Carmen Ortiz is first woman and first Hispanic to hold post In this video, Carmen Ortiz, the US Attorney for the District of Boston, delivers the School of Law Convocation address May 15. Photo by Dana J. Quigley. Video by Kitay Productions, Inc., and BU Productions. She put gangster Whitey Bulger and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev behind […]
Commencement Speaker: Embrace Your Fear of the Unknown Future
Former CBS executive Nina Tassler says life took her to unexpected joys Commencement speaker Nina Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16) told BU graduates not to be afraid to edit their dreams and rewrite the story of what they want to do in life during the University’s 143rd Commencement Sunday. Video by BU Productions. Photo by Dana J. […]
Peace Corps Director Delivers Baccalaureate Address
CAS alum Hessler-Radelet urges grads to choose optimism, nurture relationships Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79), director of the Peace Corps, delivers the address at the 143rd Commencement Baccalaureate Service at Marsh Chapel. Video by BU Productions. Photos by Mike Ritter. As the current director of the Peace Corps and a former volunteer, Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) has […]
Honorary Degree for Hessler-Radelet
’79 alum, director of Peace Corps, will deliver 2016 Baccalaureate address Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79), director of the Peace Corps, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and deliver the Baccalaureate address at BU’s 143rd Commencement. Photo courtesy of the Peace Corps. Carrie Hessler-Radelet, the 19th director of the Peace Corps, will receive an honorary […]