Raul Fernandez
Dr. Raul Fernandez is a senior lecturer in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where he studies, writes, and teaches about inequities in education. Previously, he served as associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion. He is also an appointee to the Racial Imbalance […]
Jeffrey Geddes
Research in Jeff’s group is focused on the impacts of reactive trace gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Topics range from understanding urban air quality to studying biosphere-atmosphere exchange in natural environments. The group primarily uses satellite remote sensing observations in combination with a global model of atmospheric chemistry, but also relies on field measurements. Current projects […]
Paul Hutchinson
Dr. Paul J. Hutchinson is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University Questrom School of Business teaching in both the undergraduate and MBA programs. Hutch has worked with over 50,000 participants in teambuilding and leadership programs since he began practicing experiential education in 1996. Hutch’s recent professional work has focused on utilizing emerging technologies to enhance […]
Yasuko Kanno
Dr. Yasuko (“Yasko”) Kanno is a professor of language education and chair ad interim of the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is an applied linguist who specializes in immigrant English learners’ access to postsecondary education. A multilingual speaker who has lived in four different […]
Patrick Kinney
Dr. Kinney joined the School of Public Health faculty in January 2017 as the inaugural Beverly Brown Professor of Urban Health. He was trained as an air pollution epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health and came to BU after two decades at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. In his time at […]
Kipruto Kirwa
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Professor Kipruto Kirwa is an environmental epidemiologist who applies techniques from environmental health, epidemiology, and statistical modeling to understand better how environmental factors affect human health, and how those effects can be mitigated. His research seeks to improve the quantification of air pollutant exposures, identify population groups most at risk for […]
Catherine M. Klapperich, Ph. D.
Dr. Catherine Klapperich is Professor of Biomedical Engineering. She is the Scientific Director of the DAMP Lab at BU. She was the Founding Director of the BU Precision Diagnostics Center, and currently serves as its Associate Director. Professor Klapperich holds appointments in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. […]
Kevin Lane
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health, Housing Dr. Lane’s research focuses on air pollution, the built environment, urbanization, and the impacts of climate change on health in local, national, and international settings. His expertise in big-data and spatial research has led to developing novel methods integrating geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing data and time-activity algorithms […]
Jessica Leibler
Jessica Leilber’s research focuses on environmental exposures experienced by disadvantaged populations in the U.S., including agricultural workers and the homeless. Her work has two central themes: environmental transmission of pathogens through food systems, and environmental exposures experienced by the urban poor in the U.S. Leibler is currently leading a study of antibiotic resistant bacterial carriage […]
Gregory Melchor-Barz
Gregory Melchor-Barz is an ethnomusicologist who has conducted field research in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Israel. He received the PhD from Brown University and the MA from the University of Chicago. His current research project is on global drag traditions, focusing on drag performance in Boston and in Israel. A former opera […]