Reminder: Faculty Regalia Orders Due February 16.
The temperature outside may feel like February, but it is time to get ready for 2024 Convocation! All SPH faculty, new and returning, are invited to participate in SPH Convocation. Order your regalia by February 16 here. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Murphy-Phillips at mcmurph@bu.edu or Tenbit Mitiku at mitikut@bu.edu.
Faculty Development Seminars – February 2024
Dear colleagues, Faculty at SPH have access to a wide variety of opportunities for faculty development. The broad portfolio of programs and resources, which are described in the Faculty Handbook, includes our Faculty Development Seminar Series (FDSS). The FDSS is updated each semester to include seminars and workshops from within SPH and from across the […]
Applications Open for Staff Mentorship Program
Dear Colleagues: The Boston University School of Public Health is excited to announce the launch of the 2024 Mentorship Program for Staff. The goal of this program is to support and enhance our staff’s leadership and professional development, providing a confidential space for discussion around topics related to career growth, institutional knowledge and development, upward […]
School Assembly Notes Available Online
Thank you to all who attended the January School Assembly. The notes from the January School Assembly are posted online. The agendas and notes from all previous School Assemblies can be found here.
Volunteers for BU Jewish Life and Muslim Life Working Groups
As Kenneth W. Freeman, BU president ad interim, recently announced, the University is establishing two new working groups: The Working Group on Jewish Life and Addressing Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Harassment and the Working Group on Muslim and Arab Life and Addressing Islamophobia and Anti-Arab and Anti-Palestinian Harassment. If you are interested in serving in either of […]
Meet-and-Greet Breakfast for New Staff
Dear Colleagues, As we continue to welcome new staff members into the SPH community, we are excited to announce the next meet-and-greet breakfast gathering for new staff. Dean Lazic recognizes the importance of new staff feeling embraced by our community, and that having the opportunity to meet one another has been a challenge as we […]
Talking Circles, Spring 2024 Dates
Dear colleagues, We hope that everyone had a lovely break and is looking forward to the new semester. I am writing today with a few updates about SPH’s Talking Circles. The School, thanks to our Office of Graduate Student Life, has been hosting Social Justice Talking Circles for almost six years. These have been spaces […]
Pilot Funding Opportunities
idea hub at the Boston University School of Public Health is dedicated to creating an innovative space to meet our core purpose to Think. Teach. Do. For the health of all. For all awards, priority will be given to applications that align with our strategic directions, as articulated on our strategy map. As detailed on […]
Annual Faculty Review: An Update and Reminder for Faculty
As announced in December, a quick reminder to faculty to please submit the Annual Faculty Review form by the deadline of Tuesday, January 16. Additionally, we have now uploaded the 2023 actual salary coverage data to the Looking Back section of the form. These data reflect the 2023 salary distributions recorded in SAP as of January […]
Reaffirming the Values That Underlie Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Efforts
Dear colleagues: As our community welcomes the new year, we thought we would reach out jointly with a brief note about our DEIJ efforts. We are well aware that in the past few weeks DEIJ efforts have come under increasing scrutiny in the media and been the subject of public conversation. It seems, then, worth […]