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 settles into brownstone on Bay State Road for position at BU

After 20 years spent in City Hall Square, former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino settled into his new quarters Monday at 75 Bay State Road on the Boston University campus.

Menino has transitioned from mayor of a major city to co-director of BU’s Initiative on Cities, an extended project that will explore the successes of major cities in order to lend resources and insight to struggling cities across the world.

In His Final Speech, Mayor Menino Reflected on What’s Changed

Tom Menino delivered his final speech as mayor of Boston to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning. He offered as a thesis that “the thing that makes a city most is change, the fact that something new is always just around the corner.

Mayor Menino a Welcome Addition to BU

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Students and faculty welcomed the announcement yesterday by President Robert A. Brown that outgoing Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino (Hon.’01) will join BU in February as codirector of the Initiative on Cities (IoC), a new center that will invite leaders of cities around the world to share their hands-on knowledge with academics and scholars from BU and other universities.

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.