Travis Roy to Receive Honorary Degree
Former Terrier hockey player now major supporter of spinal cord research View the video: Travis Roy reflects on his life 20 years after a paralyzing injury and talks about what he sees for his future. Photo by Jackie Riccardi. When Travis Roy heard he would receive an honorary degree at this year’s Commencement ceremony, he had […]
Sharing the Field’s Allure
ENG brings engineering to schools to bring students to engineering Josiah Quincy Upper School students and Gretchen Fougere, ENG associate dean for outreach and diversity, who says ENG’s goal is “to broaden and build the pipeline from K-12 schools into engineering.” Photos by Cydney Scott. It’s a warm spring morning at the Josiah Quincy Upper […]
Lawyers for Affordable Justice: Reasonably Priced Legal Help
New project serves students, immigrants Michael Denham (LAW’15) at his Kenmore Square office. A BU, BC, and NU partnership employs recent law grads to handle cases for people who have a hard time affording lawyers. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Are you a student whose off-campus landlord won’t fix an unsafe condition? An immigrant struggling to […]
Getting a Taste for Global Business
BU students get firsthand field experience in Beijing, Hong Kong The artificial hip joint being examined by Alissa Mangy (Questrom’16) and Bryan Chiakpo (ENG’17) is manufactured by CLZD, one of the companies a group of BU students visited in China during spring break. Photos by Gregory Stoller. Benjamin Graham (ENG’16) liked Hong Kong a lot, […]
Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill
Grad students learn to lobby for policy, funding Graduate students in the sciences learn how to advocate for science on Capitol Hill in the Making Our CASE: Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering workshops. Photo by Nicolas Raymond via Creative Commons license. The federal government funds about 80 percent of the research conducted at Boston […]
YouSpeak: Who Has Your Vote?
By BU Today Staff. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi With Super Tuesday this week, BU Today polls students about candidates, issues One thing that can be said about this year’s presidential campaign: it has been unpredictable. Who would have imagined a year ago that former Florida governor and presumed Republican front-runner Jeb Bush would drop out just weeks […]
UROP Student’s Project: A Thinking Robot
Self-directed ‘bot can identify objects In the following video, watch Emily Fitzgerald’s artificially intelligent robot. “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But […]
Interest in Computer Science Surges
Enrollment is way up, and more women are signing on Senior lecturer Dave Sullivan says changes in the Introduction to Computer Science course CS 111 have made it more appealing to students in general and women in particular. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it […]
Earth House Doubles as Environmental Classroom
New student residence teaches more sustainable everyday living At Earth House, BU’s residential program in sustainability, both the house and its director, Nathan Phillips, serve as instructors. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Vivien Chen takes a five-minute timer with her to the shower. So does Mark Holaday, and they both use watt-counters when turning on lights […]
New Program Teaches How to Help Students with Mental Health Issues
Terriers Connect trains faculty, staff, peers to be proactive First responders aren’t always police and firefighters who race to the scene with lights and sirens. For students facing mental health issues, the first person approached for help may be a peer, a faculty member, an RA, a coach, or an administrator. Now a new BU […]