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Week of 4 April 2003· Vol. VI, No. 27
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BU start-up to streamline electronic data storage

By David J. Craig
The proliferation of electronic business transactions in recent years has caused an explosion in the data storage industry. Many companies and public institutions struggle constantly to increase their capacity to store data, resulting in a whopping 12 percent annual revenue growth in the storage industry worldwide, according to one recent study.

Fertile and fragile, desert surface a war casualty

Farouk El-Baz Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By David J. Craig
From the toxic black mist spewing from burning Iraqi oil wells to the threat of biological and chemical attacks, environmental disasters from the war in Iraq will probably hinge on the tactics employed by Saddam Hussein and his henchmen.

SPH preps state’s pharmacists for frontline emergency response

Hannelore Vanderschmidt and Ascher Segall, codirectors of the SPH Center for Educational Development in Health. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

By Brian Fitzgerald
In the event of a bioterrorism attack, most people think of doctors and emergency medical technicians as the primary contacts for victims. And they would be, at first, until the hospitals become quickly swamped with patients. Then area pharmacists would be sought for medicines and medical supplies.

In birdsong, CAS biologist hears more than male voices

Mouth agape, this young cardinal knows how to say, "Feed me." But it will take several months for it to learn how to sing like an adult. In her lab, Ayako Yamaguchi has found that female cardinals learn to sing about three times faster than males, but that males ultimately acquire a wider repertoire of songs. Photo by Ayako Yamaguchi

By Tim Stoddard
Boston’s flowerbeds are still days away from a burst of daffodils, but the feathered harbingers of spring arrived on campus weeks ago, belting out their melodies from tree branches and powerlines. Songbirds like the Northern cardinal have been adding their voices to BU’s urban symphony, and for Ayako Yamaguchi, a cardinal’s song is more than a pleasant assurance of spring: it’s a biological puzzle that may shed light on how birds and whales and humans learn to vocalize.

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PRC celebrates new home by opening space to community photographers

By David J. Craig

Spring tune-up. Flutist Adam Friedman (CAS'03) accompanies Andy Bergnet (COM'06) in an aural celebration of a recent spring day. Photo by Phoebe Sexton (UNI'06)
Spring tune-up. Flutist Adam Friedman (CAS’03) accompanies Andy Bergnet (COM’06) in an aural celebration of a recent spring day. Photo by Phoebe Sexton (UNI’06)


A high-level delegation of Chinese archaeologists came to BU's International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH) recently to discuss future international collaborative projects, publications programs, and issues concerning cultural heritage management and problems surrounding the international market for antiquities. They also visited the Egyptian archaeology galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts. From left to right: Tang Jigen, a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; Robert Murowchick, a CAS research associate professor of archaeology and the director of ICEAACH; Song Xinchao, associate director of cultural heritage preservation and archaeology at the China State Bureau of Cultural Relics Administration, Beijing; Liu Qingzhu, a professor and director of the Institute of Archaeology; and Chen Xingcan and Jiang Bo, professors at the Institute of Archaeology. Photo by David Cohen
A high-level delegation of Chinese archaeologists came to BU’s International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH) recently...

       

4 April 2003
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