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Research on Tap: Tackling Racial Inequities in Boston: What’s BU Learning? (2016)
Hosted by Graham Wilson, Director, Initiative on Cities, and Professor, Political Science, CAS; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities. What’s BU Learning? Brought together faculty from across BU who seek to understand the root causes of inequity in the Boston region and beyond. They shared their latest research findings and remedies related to […]
Discovery and Innovation for Biological and Climate Science at the Department of Energy (2016)
Featuring Dr. Sharlene Weatherwax, Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research (BER), U.S. Department of Energy Recent program and scientific highlights and future strategic directions will be presented from the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER). BER’s mission is to support fundamental research and scientific user facilities to achieve a […]
K Award Checklist: Putting Together a Competitive Application for K99 Awards (2016)
Featuring Sarah Hokanson, Program Director, Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs This interactive session provided a general overview of the Mentored K series of awards from the National Institutes of Health. View Slides
Research on Tap: BU Research on a Sustainable Energy Future (2016)
Hosted by Peter Fox-Penner, Professor of the Practice, Questrom School of Business. As demonstrated by the recent Paris Climate Conference, global energy systems face a massive challenge in shifting away from unsustainable carbon-emitting fuels to sustainable sources, while serving the energy and development needs of a planet whose population will reach ten billion before the […]
Research on Tap: Drug Repurposing and Reformulation: Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges (2016)
Hosted by Avi Spira, Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, and Bioinformatics; Chief, Division of Computational Biomedicine; and Director, Boston University Cancer Center. Developing new medicines is a costly, complex, and time-consuming process. Drug repurposing – the application of one compound or agent already used to treat a disease or condition to treat other […]
Faculty Early Career Development Program at the NSF (2015)
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation‘s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of both within the context of their organizations’ missions. In 2015, BU hosted two NSF Program […]
NSF Broader Impacts: A Special Conversation with Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director, NSF Directorate for Engineering (2015)
On December 4, 2015, Dr. Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director, NSF Directorate for Engineering, discussed successful models for the implementation of broader impacts to help BU faculty in connecting their research with the greater goals of science. View Slides
Research on Tap: Combatting Disease, Pursuing Cures: Infectious Diseases Research at BU (2015)
Hosted by Ronald Corley, Professor and Chair, Microbiology, and Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). This event featured BU infectious disease experts at the forefront of research of illnesses that are – or have the potential to become – major public health concerns and presented the cutting edge diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments these faculty […]
Introduction to Survey Research Methods and Design (2015)
Featuring Dr. Dino P. Christenson, Assistant Professor, Political Science Thanks to survey research we have a greater understanding of public opinion and behavior, but designing effective surveys can often be challenging. Applicable to faculty from all disciplines, this presentation by Professor Christenson introduced essential concepts in the design of surveys and highlighted the potential for […]
NEH Funding and Digital/Networked Scholarship (2015)
Featuring Vika Zafrin, Institutional Repository Librarian The past several decades have seen fundamental developments in humanities and social science scholarship, many of them involving computation and networked communication. Digital humanities has taken root as an area of research overlaying most humanities fields and residing partly at their intersections. Digital research methods and online scholarly communication […]