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Crafting Your Online Scholarly Persona (2017)
Featuring Dino Christenson, Associate Professor, Political Science, CAS; Neha Gondal, Assistant Professor, Sociology, CAS; Jacob Groshek, Associate Professor, Emerging Media Studies, COM; Tom Hohenstein, Data Services Librarian, BU Libraries; Anthony Petro, Assistant Professor, Religion, CAS; and Christopher Schmitt, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Biology, CAS Establishing your online presence as a scholar and researcher can increase the visibility […]
Working with the Media (2017)
Featuring Bruce Gellerman, WBUR Reporter; Evan Hadingham, NOVA Senior Science Editor; Helen Branswell, STAT Infectious Disease and Public Health Reporter; and David Corcoran, former editor of the New York Times’ Science Times; Senior Editor, Undark; and Associate Director of Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. Moderated by BU colleagues Sara Rimer and Barbara Moran from […]
Research on Tap: Materials Science and Engineering: The Science of Stuff (2017)
Hosted by David Bishop, Head, Division of Materials Science & Engineering, and Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering, ENG; and Alice White, Chair, Mechanical Engineering, and Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, ENG. Materials science has enabled and driven technological advances for all of human history. Today, […]
Research on Tap: The Next Generation: A Research on Tap Celebrating Postdoctoral Research at BU (2017)
BU is home to nearly 400 postdoctoral scholars, each one bringing a fresh perspective to research across a variety of fields. this session, hosted by Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs (PDPA), demonstrated how the work done by postdoctoral scholars helps develop tools and strategies that impact our everyday lives, from the tiniest particles to complex […]
Research on Tap: Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype (2017)
One of the biggest challenges in translational research is the development of methods to predict phenotype—an organism’s physical characteristics—from what we know about the genome and environment. Unpacking phenotypic complexity will require the convergence of research across biology, computer science, medicine, engineering, and others.* This Research on Tap, hosted by Richard Myers, Director, BU Genome […]
Research on Tap: Targets, Tools, and Drugs: Advances in Molecular Discovery at BU (2017)
Connecting different scientific disciplines, molecular discovery focuses on the design, optimization, and development of small molecules for use as pharmacological tools in the early stages of drug discovery. At this Research on Tap hosted by John A. Porco, Jr., Director, BU Center for Molecular Discovery (BU-CMD), and Professor, Chemistry, CAS, faculty from various biomedical research […]
Research on Tap: Mass Incarceration and its Impacts (2017)
In the past four decades, the United States more than quadrupled the size of its prison system. This change in penal policy had a wide range of unwanted and profound social costs. At this Research on Tap, BU faculty discussed their work to understand the consequences of the U.S. prison system on social and economic […]
Research on Tap: From Earth Orbit to Distant Galaxies: Space Research at Boston University (2017)
Hosted by Alan Marscher, Professor, Astronomy, CAS, this session featured faculty conducting research that uses space probes, as well as both space- and ground-based telescopes, to explore the Earth’s cosmic environment, our Solar System, planets around other stars, gas clouds, galaxies, and black holes. View program here. View Slides Note: Videos in slides will not […]
Improve Your Relationship with Federal Research Agencies (2017)
Will they notice me? Should I write? Should I call? Every federal research agency is different. This workshop explained how to work with different funders to give you the best possible chance to receive support for your research. Presenters from BU Federal Relations and Washington, DC, consulting firm Lewis-Burke Associates described the most successful ways […]
Research on Tap: Shaping the New Human-Technology Frontier: Current Research at BU (2016)
Hosted by Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, ENG. Advances in interdisciplinary science and engineering promise to bring about a world in which technologies – sensors, communication, computation, and intelligence – are embedded around, on, and in us. This Research on Tap session brought together faculty from across BU who develop technology that directly impacts human […]