BMC's $2.25M AIDS care initiative to focus on jobless and homeless
By Jessica Ullian
Since its creation three years ago, the Center for HIV/AIDS Care and Research at Boston Medical Center has provided testing and counseling services for the hospital’s at-risk patients — including those without jobs, homes, and health insurance.
Neglected children thrive under volunteer's efforts in India and Romania
By Brian Fitzgerald
Carolyn Norris had no prior teaching experience the first time she stood in front of a class of wide-eyed Romanian schoolchildren. What she did have, in abundance, were butterflies in her stomach.
BU panel to preview Bush-Kerry showdown
By Danielle Masterson
Panelists will discuss the strategies of the Bush and Kerry campaigns and offer historical context by looking at how previous debates have affected election outcomes.
Predicting New England's earthquake activity
By Brian Fitzgerald
“I feel the earth move under my feet,” Carole King sang in 1971. Rachel Abercrombie felt that way on the morning of April 20, 2002, when her home in Belmont, Mass., started shaking.
COM professor Caryl Rivers attacks gender myths
By Jessica Ullian
The popular theory that men are from Mars and women are from Venus — or that there’s a fundamental difference in how the sexes view the world and communicate with each other — was supposed to simplify relationships. But authors Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett found that it has had the opposite effect.
New study abroad, internship programs in Switzerland, Spain
By Tim Stoddard
Geneva is an ideal destination for college students looking to work and study in a safe, English-friendly city abroad. The Swiss city, after all, is a hub for global diplomacy and business, as well as for scores of international humanitarian organizations in need of interns.
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