New Director of Animal Science Center, Request for Census Projections
Dr. Rao Varada, who has served as the interim director of the Animal Science Center (ASC) since September, has been named the new ASC Director and Attending Veterinarian, effective April 1, 2018.
Broadening Participation in STEM (2018)
Hosted by Crystal Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion, this Research on Tap highlighted the exciting array of initiatives and scholarship taking place across BU’s Charles River and Medical Campuses that explicitly seek to increase embodied diversity, improve department/school climate and culture, develop innovative pedagogical interventions, and create stronger pathways for people traditionally underrepresented […]
Research on Tap: Inequality in the United States (2018)
This Research on Tap, hosted by Spencer Piston, Assistant Professor, Political Science, CAS, brought together faculty from across BU who seek to understand the root causes of inequity in the contemporary United States. Faculty shared their latest research findings and remedies related to disparities in health, education, development, economic opportunity, housing, and criminal justice, and […]
New NSF Account Management System
Effective March 26, 2018, the National Science Foundation made major changes to the way the research community registers for NSF accounts and maintains account and user profile information in FastLane and Research.gov. Each user will now have a single profile and unique identifier (i.e., NSF ID) for signing into FastLane and Research.gov for proposal and […]
BU Technology Wonders & Potential Biomedical Applications (2018)
On March 28, 2018, the BU Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office (IBRO) presented BU Technology Wonders: Potential Biomedical Applications. For more information, please see the event flyer. View Slides Note: Videos in slides will not play
NIH Policies and Clinical Trial Requirements (2018)
Featuring Cindy Monahan, Director, Institutional Review Board, CRC; and Karla Damus, Clinical Research Regulatory and Education Manager and Administrator, Clinicaltrials.gov This “Research How-To” session will provide an overview of the following NIH policies: Clinical trials registration; Good clinical practice (GCP) training; and Certificates of Confidentiality. During this presentation, we will discuss what is required for investigators […]
New IACUC software is coming
The Institutional Animal Care & Use Committee is implementing a new electronic protocol management system, Huron Click, to replace INSPIR and paper CRC protocols. Benefits of the new software include: Easy visualization of workflow and protocol status Library of our own approved standard procedures from which to select Prepopulated with anesthetic administration procedures Multiple people can work on […]
Technology Development announces 2018 Ignition Award recipients
Technology Development is pleased to announce the winners for the 9th annual Ignition Awards. The Ignition Program includes two separate awards— approximately five $75,000 one-year grants and one $25,000 Robert E. Schiesske Award — to faculty of Boston University and Boston Medical Center to validate early-stage technologies and enable follow-on funding. The Ignition Award Program […]
Research on Tap: Challenges and Opportunities for an Aging Society: New Directions in Medicine, Health Care, and Social Policy (2018)
The aging of populations creates both challenges and opportunities for health care providers, policy makers, scientists, social service organizations, and older adults and their families. This event, hosted by Jonathan Woodson, Director, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy; Larz Anderson Professor in Management and Professor of the Practice, Questrom; and Professor, Surgery, MED, and […]
Splitting PDFs into Separate Pages
Instructions for splitting PDFs into separate documents with individual pages automatically, using Adobe Acrobat Pro or DC. This is particularly useful when splitting PARs into individual files to send for digital signature. Step 1.Open the PDF using Adobe Pro or Pro DC (the feature isn’t available in Adobe Reader). In Adobe Pro DC, navigate to the menu […]