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An App That Helps Journalists Find Diverse, Reliable Sources
Nick Toso (CGS’04, Pardee’06) created Rolli, an AI-powered database of experts
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Meet BU’s Newest Associate Professors
32 Charles River Campus faculty promoted
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POV: What All That Change Americans Leave Behind at Airport Security Checkpoints Tells Us
The drive to get rid of pennies, nickels, and dimes should hold off a while longer
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A Conversation: Boston University President Melissa L. Gilliam on First Impressions, Challenges, and Ambitions
Taking office as the University’s 11th president, she says BU’s opportunities are boundless, and it must remain laser-focused on what it does best
5July 1, 2024
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New AI Program from BU Researchers Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s Disease
By analyzing speech patterns, machine learning model can say with a high degree of accuracy whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s-associated dementia within six years
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Heat Waves Are Scorching Boston, but Are Some Neighborhoods Hotter than Others?
BU researchers team up with city of Boston and local nonprofits to improve temperature monitoring and pilot a more equitable approach to declaring heat emergencies
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Arts & Culture
- His First Broadway Show Just Earned This CFA Alum a Tony Award Nod
- Reading List: What the Pandemic Revealed
- Spreading Art Appreciation
Business & Economics
- BU Alums Explore Dangers Journalists Face in New LA Times Documentary
- My Big Idea: An App That Helps Journalists Find Diverse, Reliable Sources
- Opening Doors: Michele Courton Brown (CAS’83)
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See all storiesEducation & Social Service
- One Good Deed: Christine Kannler (CAS’96, SPH’00, CAMED’00)
- My Big Idea: Blending Wildlife Conservation and Human Welfare
- Opening Doors: Janet Krause Jones (COM’74), cofounder of the Single Mom Project
Feedback
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on BU’s New President, COM’s New Expert on Misinformation, and What’s Really Dividing the Nation
- Feedback: Readers Weigh In on Boston’s New Police Commissioner, Alum Michael Cox, and BU’s Research and Discovery
- Feedback: “We Are Not Way Past” Systemic Racism
Government & Law
- Could Boston Be the Next City to Impose Congestion Pricing?
- Campus Reacts and Responds to Israel-Hamas War
- Alum Beata Coloyan Is Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s “Eyes and Ears” in Boston Neighborhoods
Health & Medicine
- One Good Deed: Christine Kannler (CAS’96, SPH’00, CAMED’00)
- A Guide to Black Women’s Health
- Fruitful First Year for Center on Forced Displacement
Science & Technology
- Could Boston Be the Next City to Impose Congestion Pricing?
- Alum Has Traveled the World to Witness Total Solar Eclipses
- Opening Doors: Rhonda Harrison (ENG’98,’04, GRS’04)
Sports
- When Celtics Star Derrick White Banged Up His Smile in the NBA Finals, This BU Alum’s Dental Office Fixed Him Up
- Former Terriers Power New Professional Women’s Hockey League
- Meet Brad Cashew: Pro Wrestler and Local Legend Fans Go Nuts Over
Tributes
- Rev. James Lawson, Crusading Confidant of MLK, Dies at 95
- Six BU Alums to Remember This Memorial Day
- Remembering COM’s David Anable, CAS’ John Stone
University News
- Rev. James Lawson, Crusading Confidant of MLK, Dies at 95
- Campus Reacts and Responds to Israel-Hamas War
- William Fairfield Warren Society Inducts New Members