Category: Learning
Center for BioDynamics
The Center for BioDynamics, a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental center whose mission is to advance training and research at the interfaces among dynamical systems, biology, and engineering, opens its doors.
Photonics Center
The Boston University Photonics Center opens on June 13. The center, located at 8 St. Mary’s Street, is an $80 million state-of-the-art facility dedicated to working with industry partners to develop new products based on photonics—the practical use of light.
Center for Anxiety-Related Disorders
The Center for Anxiety-Related Disorders (CARD) opens to study the nature of emotional disorders and to develop and provide effective treatment for adults and children.
Mass Spectrometry Resource Center
The Mass Spectrometry Resource Center develops and applies mass spectral methods for biology and medicine with a primary emphasis on studies of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates. The mission is to pursue sophisticated mass spectrometry in an environment with close interaction with life scientists and physicians. Resource faculty are members of the Department of Biochemistry and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Hearing Research Center
The Boston University Hearing Research Center (HRC) opens with twenty faculty members from six departments in four Boston University schools and colleges. The HRC was formed to develop and disseminate knowledge that will improve the nation's auditory health and allow the fullest utilization of the sense of hearing. Research in the Hearing Research Center combines theoretical and experimental studies of auditory processing to understand hearing in both normal and impaired auditory systems.
Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center
The Elizabeth Bishop Wine Resource Center—which commemorates Elizabeth Bishop, a wine and culinary arts enthusiast who worked closely with Julia Child—is established for the study of wine and other spirits. The center aims to foster educational programs that explore all aspects of wine—viticulture, enology, wine history, economics, distribution and marketing, pairing wine with food, and the psychological, physiological, and cultural phenomena of wine consumption.
Fraunhofer Center
The Boston University Production Technology Collaboration and Fraunhofer Resource Center opens at 15 St. Mary’s Street, bringing together academic and industry-based scientists and engineers to offer access to the most advanced manufacturing technologies.
SMG Gets New Home
Construction begins on the Rafik B. Hariri Building of the School of Management; the building officially opens in October 1996.
Prison Education Program Continues
With the Crime Control and Prevention Act of 1994, Pell Grants for prisoners are eliminated, and as a result, universities withdraw their prison education programs. Only Boston University continues to operate in prisons, though since 1998 it has focused exclusively on undergraduate courses.
The Scleroderma Center
Founded by the late Dr. Joseph Korn, former Chief of the Section and an internationally recognized researcher and clinical investigator in scleroderma research, the Scleroderma Center at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center is a multidisciplinary program encompassing basic and clinical research and patient care. Dr. Korn’s vision of a comprehensive scleroderma center combining both excellent patient care and cutting-edge research continues in the BU Scleroderma Program today; thanks to research support, patients have many opportunities to participate in novel treatment approaches. The program’s efforts in patient care and research are mutually enhancing and sustaining.
