You Can Gentrify Anything Today. What Does that Say About Society?
Boston University ethnographer Japonica Brown-Saracino says gentrification means more than a fresh coat of paint and rising real estate prices in old neighborhoods. It’s about how the market can turn anything into a hot commodity—and take it out of the hands of the people who nurtured it.
BU Study: Hospital Programs Can Curb Violence Recurrence
A hospital-based program that supports victims of gun and knife violence can reduce the likelihood that those victims will be reinjured or commit violence themselves, according to a new Boston University study.
SHA Professor Makarand Mody Receives 2026 Shipley Academic Innovation Award
Boston University has announced the recipients of the 2026 Shipley Academic Innovation Awards, which recognize faculty-led initiatives that leverage artificial intelligence to reimagine teaching and learning. Among this year’s honorees is SHA Professor Makarand Mody, recognized for Hospitality as Experience Innovation in the Age of AI: Integrating Generative AI into Human-Centered Design in the Experience Management course.
The Power of Place
When Suchi Gopal heads to Belize, it’s not for the beaches by the azure Caribbean waters. She goes to document and map the mangrove forests. And Gopal, a Department of Earth & Environment professor, uses drones.
Scaling Social-Emotional Learning: A Student’s Practicum at City Hall
For two-and-a-half years before enrolling at SPH, Corryn Barter taught at Match, a charter public high school located next to Agganis Arena on BU’s Charles River Campus. First, she taught physics, and then she pivoted to teaching health. She found that while her students overwhelmingly struggled with math problems, they were deeply empathetic and skilled in reading a room. But with such a rich emotional life comes challenges, she says, and without a specific curriculum targeting their social-emotional development, her students were struggling to achieve personal and academic well-being.
MBTA Mapmaking in Focus Thanks to City Planning & Urban Affairs, Initiative on Cities
On Monday, October 27, the BU Metropolitan College City Planning & Urban Affairs (CPUA) program and BU Initiative on Cities hosted a pair of visitors sure to excite budding cartographers and public transit devotees curious as to just who it is that behind one of Boston’s most famous legends.
BU professor to lead upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Benjamin Sovacool, director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability and a professor in BU’s Department of Earth and Environment, is returning to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a coordinating lead author in the panel’s seventh assessment report.
Communicating Climate Is the Focus of Inaugural Boston University Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact Summit
Boston University’s College of Communication opened its Center for Media Innovation & Social Impact (MISI) in spring 2025 with a bold mission: to rebuild trust in science, democracy, and community. “This center was born out of ambitions to help society unlock its potential through amazing communication,” says COM Dean Mariette DiChristina (COM’86).
Yves Atchadé and Emily Ryan Named Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS
Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) is proud to announce Aguêmon Yves Atchadé and Emily Ryan as 2025 Duan Family Faculty Fellows, recognizing their leadership in applying computing and data science to global challenges in sustainability, energy, and statistical modeling.
BU faculty uncover what is little known about the production and destruction of solar technology
Dunlap, a Boston University postdoctoral research scientist, and Sovacool, a BU earth and environment professor, titled their project “Transformational Energy Justice Across the Supply Chain,” which aimed to explore the hidden impacts of the solar energy industry, Sovacool said.