Category: Learning
Center for Remote Sensing
Professor Farouk El-Baz founds and becomes director of the Center for Remote Sensing. The center uses satellite images and other data from airborne and ground sensors to study the Earth and its resources, particularly groundwater. This research includes monitoring environmental changes due to both natural processes and human activities.
NeuroMuscular Research Center
The College of Engineering establishes the NeuroMuscular Research Center (NMRC) to increase knowledge of motor control and improve the quality of health care for neuromuscular-impaired patients.
Data Coordinating Center
The Data Coordinating Center specializes in questionnaire and case report form design; implementing study protocols; data management; data entry; and statistical, database, and Web-based programming. Its staff of statistical programmers, database programmers, and data managers are experts in study design, developing computerized and Web-based data collection and tracking systems, quality control procedures, and statistical analysis methods. Data management systems can be custom-designed for projects that involve remote data entry using a Web browser or projects conducted online.
NNN Established
The School of Public Communication first hosts Neighborhood Network News, broadcast nightly on Boston Cable Channels 3 and 8.
Institute for Jewish Law
Dedicated to conducting scholarly research, publishing material on Jewish law, and providing continuing education in this specialized field, the Institute for Jewish Law seeks to make publications available in English that focus on the analysis of contemporary issues using traditional Jewish sources. Neil Hecht, a tenured member of the law faculty, is the founding director of the institute, which has published over thirty volumes and conducts annual joint conferences with Harvard Law School on a variety of Jewish law topics.
Science Building Opens
The Arthur G. B. Metcalf Center for Science & Engineering is opened.
Institute for Literacy & Language
Started in 1982 and later renamed the Center for the Study of Communication & the Deaf, The Institute for Literacy & Language engages in both applied and theoretical research to benefit the Deaf and their families. Faculty and students focus on three major research themes: the acquisition of signed languages, the impact of language on the education of the Deaf child, and the developmental assessment of bilingual approaches to the education of Deaf children. Community services focus on projects assisting the hearing parents of Deaf children and on workshops and presentations to area agencies. The center has recently begun to create assessment instruments to determine ASL development in Deaf children.
Huntington Theatre Company First Season
The Huntington Theatre Company begins its first season in collaboration with the Boston University Theatre.
Hotel & Food Administration Program
Metropolitan College prepares to open the Hotel and Food Administration Program, the predecessor of the School of Hospitality Administration. The program becomes a school in 1992.
Institute for the Classical Tradition
The Institute for the Classical Tradition is founded by Professor Meyer Reinhold. The International Society for the Classical Tradition, which is based at the Institute for the Classical Tradition, is also the editorial base of the Society's journal, the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT).
