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From One Patient to Whole Populations: How an Online MPH Expanded a Physician’s Perspective
A desire to create greater impact led physician John Gamba to Boston University's Online MPH program. The experience transformed how he approaches healthcare, health equity, and decision-making. As a physician, John Gamba was trained to focus on the patient in front of him. But after years of working in medicine and... More
Building and Deploying AI Systems: What Software Engineers Need to Know
A model that runs in a notebook is not a system. It is a promising start. The distance between a trained model and a reliable, secure, production-grade application is where most AI projects stall, and it is exactly the distance that defines modern engineering work. Building and deploying AI systems... More
Computer Science & AI: AI Runs on Infrastructure – Someone Has to Build It.
Most people do not spend much time thinking about the electrical grid. It is only when the lights go out that we remember how much of modern life depends on it. Artificial Intelligence works much the same way. The public sees the chatbots, copilots, and AI agents. What they rarely see... More
5 Questions Every International Student Asks About an Online U.S. Degree
Choosing where and how to earn a graduate degree is a big decision, and doing it from another country adds a few practical questions to the list. If you are considering an online degree from a U.S. university as an international students, here are clear, straightforward answers to the five... More
AI Literacy for Educators: What Teachers Need to Know in 2026
If you have ever closed your laptop after another headline about AI in the classroom and felt a quiet knot of doubt, you should know two things. You are not behind, and you are not alone. AI literacy for educators has quickly become the phrase everyone uses and almost no... More
When Technology Advances So Fast, Is Humanity Catching Up?
As technology continues to advance at extraordinary speed, a fundamental question remains: are our ethics, institutions, and collective judgment evolving quickly enough to keep pace? Philosophy has long grappled with exactly these kinds of questions. Many disciplines that help us understand the human mind and behavior - including psychology, cognitive... More
How to Ask Your Employer to Pay for Grad School
If you've been thinking about a master's degree, here is something worth knowing: there is a real chance your employer will help pay for it. The bigger question is not whether the money exists. It is whether you are willing to ask for it. This is the part most people get... More
BU COM Professor Wins Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Boston University College of Communication Professor Ayse Lokmanoglu won the prestigious fellowship this past week, becoming one of 24 in the 2026 cohort. What will Lokmanglu’s research focus on? As an emerging media studies professor in the College of Communication, Lokmanoglu’s work focuses on how we think about the internet, particularly images, More
Why Business Leaders Need AI Fluency, Not Just AI Tools
Most managers can use AI. Very few can lead with it. That's the gap that's about to define the next decade of business careers — and it's wider than most leaders realize. McKinsey's 2025 Superagency in the Workplace report found that 92% of companies plan to increase AI spending in the... More
Digital Communication Strategy: The Skills Modern Leaders Need
The job of a communications leader looked very different five years ago. The channels were the same — paid, earned, shared, owned — but the speed, the scale, and the tools weren't. Today, generative AI is writing first drafts, predictive models are choosing audiences, and 23% of ads at the... More