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 […]
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.
New BU LAW Clinic Helps MIT Student Entrepreneurs
Advising on new venture, intellectual property legal issues Kelvin Chan (LAW’16) (left) and Nathaniel Gray (LAW’16) are two of the eight BU LAW students working in the Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Clinic, a new collaboration between BU and MIT. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Rishan Mohamed has almost everything he needs to build his planned tech […]
“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 […]
A Taste of the Workplace for Liberal Arts Majors
New on-campus internship program offers experience, perspective Rebecca Behrends (CAS’17) (left) and Ericka Crankshaw (CAS’18) prepare memorabilia from opera singer Deborah Voigt at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Photo by Cydney Scott. When Linda Wells was dean of the College of General Studies, she was often asked by parents and students how a liberal […]