Boston University to Divest from Fossil Fuel Industry
ON THE CHARLES RIVER
Boston University to Divest from Fossil Fuel Industry
Acknowledging the climate advocates who helped push for change, President Brown says the decision puts BU on “the right side of history.” Find out what happens next
STUDENT LIFE
A Left Among Rights: A Progressive Student’s Week At a Conservative Think Tank
BU undergraduate Zak Schneider (CAS’22, Pardee ’22) recounts what he learned during his week with right-leaning peers at the American Enterprise Institute. See what he learned
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Opening Doors
Carmen Fields (COM ’73) was in the vanguard of Black women journalists who propelled the long, slow struggle to diversify America’s newsrooms, and in the process, change how communities of color are reported on and seen.
THOUGHT LEADERS
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Blake Alexander Simmons, Kevin Gallagher, and Rebecca Ray of the BU Global Development Policy Center describe how China’s global investments are harming nature and indigenous communities in The Conversation… A global commission led by the BU School of Public Health and the Rockefeller Foundation launched a roadmap to better health using big data… The Washington Post features BU alumnus and faculty member Solomon Carter Fuller, a pioneer in Alzheimer’s research who was the first U.S. psychiatrist of African descent… BU sociologist Jonathan Mijs explains why Americans think more people worked from home during the pandemic than actually did in The Atlantic… Michelle Amazeen of the BU College of Communication details the harm of false advertising in real estate listings in The Boston Globe.