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University News

Gender Wage Gap in Greater Boston Narrows, Research from BU and City Finds

January 16, 2026

Photo: The Ribbon cutting to officially open the Center for Computing and Data Science Dec 8. From left are Associate Provost for Computing and Data Sciences Azer Bestavros, CAS dean Stan Sclaroff, Boston City Mayor Michelle Wu, President Robert A Brown, Board of Trustees chair Ahmass Fakahany (Questrom’79), Provost Jean Morisson, and Boston city councilor Kenzie Bok. They all stand with scissors in hand looking down as a cut blue ribbon floats to the ground.

University News

BU Unveils Dramatic, Fossil Fuel–Free Center for Computing & Data Sciences

December 8, 2022

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University News

ENG’s Ioannis Paschalidis New Director of Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

June 24, 2022

Photo of construction at the Data Science Center at 645-665 Commonwealth Avenue. You can see the skeleton of the building in steel beams, the concrete elevator shaft in the background, and a few construction workers on the ground.

University News

MassMutual Donates $1 Million to BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

August 24, 2021

a portrait of Eric Kolaczyk

University News

Eric Kolaczyk Named New Director of BU’s Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

January 21, 2020

Computational artist Francisco Ruiz Alarcon posese for a portrait in his workshop at Boston University.

Fine Arts

Francisco Alarcon Is Helping Engineers and Artists Communicate

December 11, 2019

Maura Healey speaks to reporters at the podium

Law

Massachusetts Attorney General Announces Implementation of BU-Developed Anti-Trafficking App

October 24, 2019

Portrait of Danielle Keats Citron, Professor of Law, BU LAW Vice President, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

Cybersecurity

LAW’s Danielle Citron Named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow

September 25, 2019

Portrait of Danielle Citron

Law

Q&A: LAW’s Danielle Citron Warns That Deepfake Videos Could Undermine the 2020 Election

September 11, 2019

Ziba Cranmer stands in front of an audience next to a screen that reads "DOLPHIN TANK BUILD LAB *Demo Day" along with listing some sponsors and other details and showing a web link to vote

Alumni

In Dolphin Tank, Alums Advise Student Innovators, Gently

May 13, 2019

Photo of a miniature man and woman standing the same pile of change, symbolizing gender wage equality.

Jobs

Job Hunting? Dos and Don’ts for Negotiating Salary

March 25, 2019

SheHacks Boston

Computers

SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal

January 26, 2018

Portrait of Ziba Cranmer who leads BU Spark! the new in-house incubator for student technology projects at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

University News

Trustee’s Gift Ignites Student Entrepreneurship

February 13, 2017

Azer Bestavros at podium, behind him Katie Conboy, Evelyn Murphy, Marty Walsh, and Eddie Ahmed

Computational Science

Tackling the Wage Gap with Code

January 27, 2017

Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros

National Science Foundation

BU Computer Expert Confabs with Feds on Cybersecurity

July 23, 2015

azer bestavros

Engineering

BU Expanding Its Ranks of Data Scientists

November 10, 2014

Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, smart cities, intelligent urban design

Research

Designing an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem

October 17, 2014

Ran Canetti, Director, Boston University Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security, Massachusetts Open Cloud, MOC, Modular Approach to Cloud Security, MACS, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, MGHPCC

Cybersecurity

Securing the Cloud

August 1, 2014

Securing the Cloud