Elizabeth Warren Calls for More Federal Research Money
Elizabeth Warren pulled up to campus Monday with a sputtering vehicle—the federal government, for which she works—and got under the hood to check two key problems: its leaky research support and its broken student loan system
Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombings
Few could have imagined last year’s Boston Marathon bombings. What the bombers themselves likely didn’t imagine was that they were attacking a city that had relentlessly drilled for such a catastrophe—not just security personnel, but players usually sidelined in other cities’ disaster rehearsals.
BU-Trotter Partnership Shines in Dorchester
Veteran science teacher Brenda Richardson has 30 minutes to deliver her lesson to a classroom full of kinetic fourth graders, two still in cool-down mode after a brief scuffle. It’s enough to bring sweat to the palms of the dozen BU School of Education students observing Richardson’s every move from the back of the room at the William Monroe Trotter Innovation School in Dorchester.
Menino Lands at BU
Boston University will bring the 20 years of expertise of one of the most accomplished mayors in the country to the Charles River Campus next semester. Outgoing Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, whose leadership transformed Boston from a city that seemed to be running in place to a magnet for entrepreneurs, artists, and young professionals, will join the BU faculty in February to help lead an initiative that will define the politics and services, such as education, health care, transportation, and technology, needed for cities to thrive as economic hubs in the 21st century.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino headed to Boston University to help run new Initiative on Cities
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will trade City Hall for the halls of academia at Boston University, where administrators hope to meld the mayor’s pragmatism as an “urban mechanic’’ with the scholarly muscle of a major university.