Alumnae Reelected, IMF, CTE
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Four Women with Ties to BU Win Reelection to House of Representatives
Congresswomen Lois Frankel (CAS ’70, D-FL), Jen Kiggans (PAR ’93, R-VA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11, PAR ’11, D-NY), and Ayanna Pressley (CGS, Hon.’21, D-MA) won reelection and will continue to serve their constituents.
FACULTY EXPERT
Gallagher Shares Insights from New Report on International Monetary Fund Reform
BU Global Development Policy Center Director Kevin Gallagher shared insights from a new report on transforming the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to achieve climate and development goals. Gallagher is a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
CTE: How BU is Changing the Game
From families donating their loved ones’ brains for study, to scientists racing to achieve diagnosis during life, to researchers trying to make football and military service safer, Boston University’s CTE Center is a hub for world-leading, cutting-edge research into the devastating neurodegenerative disease.
THOUGHT LEADERS
In Case You Missed It…
The BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases hosted a symposium on Global Equity in Access to Pandemic Response Tools with Loyce Pace, the Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services… Professor Dennis Jones of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine received the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot Scholar award… BU’s Graduate Workers Union ratified a new contract… Political scientist Rachel Meade connects Robert F. Kennedy’s journey from left-aligned skepticism to Trumpism to a broader trend of contemporary left-to-right populist transformations in The Conversation… Ayse Coskun of the BU College of Engineering organized a National Academies workshop on the“Implications of Artificial Intelligence-Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions”.