Category: Learning
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape Future
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Selim Ünlü is named Boston University’s 2021 Innovator of the Year. He relays the importance of science history to students, adding context to the advanced technology students use today and illustrating the impact of iterative innovation.
BU’s Entrepreneur Education and Alumni Earn High Rankings
Boston University ranks among the best universities in the world for entrepreneur education, according to two sources. Princeton Review puts BU at 25th among universities with graduate programs in entrepreneurship, and PitchBook ranks BU at 34th in the firm’s top 50 undergraduate and MBA programs that produce successful entrepreneurs.
School of Public Health to Offer Online Master’s
Boston University’s School of Public Health will offer an online Master of Public Health starting in January 2023, building on the success of the Online MBA launched by Questrom School of Business in 2020. The MPH will be offered in partnership with the online education company edX. “The online master’s in public health…will allow us to reach students we might not otherwise be able to reach,” says Jean Morrison, University provost and chief academic officer.
BU Launches Data Science As an Undergraduate Major
Drawing on various topics in traditional STEM disciplines, the new Bachelor of Science in data science, available in fall 2022 and offered by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), provides students with the foundational knowledge and practical training in algorithmic and statistical data analysis, machine learning, and software engineering—crucial competencies in a world increasingly defined by computation, big data, and artificial intelligence.
St. Elizabeth’s Joins List of MED Teaching Hospitals
As part of an agreement between the University and Steward Health Care, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton will become BU’s newest teaching hospital. The five-year partnership deepens and expands the existing relationship between BU and St. Elizabeth’s in a way that benefits students, faculty, and patients.
Student COVID-19 Safety Campaign Gets National Recognition
F*ck It Won’t Cut It, the student-led campaign to encourage students to take preventive measures against COVID-19 to stay safe on campus, gains national attention from public health leaders. The American Marketing Association asked the student team to lead a virtual audience engagement session at its 2020 Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education, and the group spoke at a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webinar for university administrators and health staff.
Ascending the Ranks of Times Higher Ed
BU advanced 7 spots, to number 54, in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The London-based magazine and data analyst compared more than 1,500 universities in 93 nations. THE lauded the University’s prodigious faculty scholarship, small student-to-teacher ratio, access to varied cultural events, research productivity, robust study abroad program, and diverse international student population.
BU Campuses to Reopen with In-Person Classes in Fall
The residential experience of Boston University will resume this fall, President Robert A. Brown announced in letters to new and returning students. But, he wrote, it will be a “very different campus,” than what students, faculty, and staff are accustomed to—with COVID-19 testing and tracing, a blend of in-person and remote teaching and learning, redesigned experiences inside campus residences, dining halls, classrooms, and labs, and daily activities where masks and social distancing are expected.
BU Excels in Latest Grad Rankings from U.S. News & World Report
Several BU schools and programs advanced in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the country’s best graduate schools. The School of Law jumped 3 spots to number 20 among 198 law schools. Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation's Occupational Therapy program retained its first-place ranking. Sargent’s Speech-Language Pathology program jumped 2 spaces, to number 10. Questrom School of Business full-time MBA program rose 2 spaces to 48th, among 477 business schools ranked.
President Brown Outlines BU’s Path Forward
A system for rapid testing and contact tracing. Technology for remote and in-person teaching and learning. New and better hygiene and public health practices on campus. Keeping our campus community together while we’re apart. Our whole effort, President Brown says, is focused on restoring the residential campus for teaching and research. “We will bring back the residential environment of BU and it will be as strong as ever.”
