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 […]
MassDOT to Hold Public Meeting on Comm Ave Makeover
State will outline roadway’s deck replacement, address concerns The commonwealth will begin next summer to replace the aging Comm Ave Bridge over the Mass Pike between BU’s central and west campuses. Graphic courtesy of MassDOT. The public is invited to a meeting to discuss a major construction project that will replace the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge over […]
US Secretary of Energy Moniz to Receive Honorary Degree
Focuses on clean energy, nuclear issues Ernest Moniz. Photo (left) courtesy of the Department of Energy. Engineering a clean-energy future is very much on Ernest J. Moniz’s mind these days, as the world tries to turn the Paris Agreement on climate into action to reduce global warming. As US Secretary of Energy, Moniz directs the […]
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 […]
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 […]
MET’s Online Criminal Justice Program Tops U.S. News Rankings
Computer information, management also lead among online offerings Every Metropolitan College online program has been ranked in the top 10 of its category for three years running. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Metropolitan College’s online master’s program in criminal justice is the best in the country in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of online academic […]
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 […]
Digital Learning Initiative Announces New Grants
Support for faculty developing online education innovations Helping disadvantaged students is a national goal; BU’s Mark Greenman is testing whether technology can better teach them physics. Could a cousin of the much-heralded MOOC help disadvantaged high school students take college-level classes? That’s what BU’s Mark Greenman and colleagues are test-driving in a project that is […]
Leventhal Center Wins Boston Preservation Award
Makeover of former Hillel for busy Admissions hub Transforming the building into an “exuberant, extroverted admissions reception center” started with a more welcoming entry and a canopy in bright BU red. Photos by Anton Grassl/Esto. For prospective students and their parents, the Alan and Sherry Leventhal Center is BU’s new front door. The striking International Style building […]