BU Scholarships Change the Lives of Boston Public Schools Graduates
ON THE CHARLES RIVER BU Scholarships Change the Lives of Boston Public Schools Graduates More than 2,500 students have received Menino Scholarships and Community Service Awards since the programs’ inception, demonstrating BU’s commitment to the city of Boston. Learn how their lives have changed FACULTY EXPERT Prepare To Keep Spending More BU economist Tarek Hassan […]
Senate Committee Proposes Large Investment in Research, Student Aid
BU IN DC Pamela Templer of the College of Arts & Sciences gave a presentation at the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship meeting on October 18th. SENATE COMMITTEE PROPOSES LARGE INVESTMENT IN RESEARCH, STUDENT AID This week, the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed significant funding increases for student aid programs and federal research agencies in fiscal […]
BUzz Bits
Last week, the White House and the National Institutes of Health released a summary of this summer’s 15 listening sessions regarding the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). ARPA-H is the Biden Administration’s proposal to “drive transformational health research innovation and speed medical breakthroughs.” The feedback from the listening sessions will help shape […]
New BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Will Promote Collaborative Research and Teaching
Center designed to offer “one-stop shopping” for faculty looking to pursue multidisciplinary research projects and team teaching
Class of 2020 Gets Long-Awaited Send-off
STUDENT LIFE The Class of 2020’s spirits couldn’t be dampened by the overcast weather. Photo by Michael D. Spencer. Class of 2020 Gets Long-Awaited Send-off Nearly a year and a half after receiving their diplomas, BU’s Class of 2020 finally donned their scarlet caps and gowns and were honored for their four years of work […]
Congress Probes Research with International Collaborators
BU IN DC Megan Bair-Merritt of the School of Medicine spoke at a National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health event on fostering gender equity in research institutions on October 5th. Lee McIntyre of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science spoke about building trust in science at a Research! America […]
Policymakers Focus on College Athletics
BU IN DC Roscoe Giles of the College of Engineering participated in a meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee, of which he is a member, on September 29th and 30th. POLICYMAKERS FOCUS ON COLLEGE ATHLETICS The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a memorandum on Wednesday which […]
Department of Energy 101
This webinar held on September 28, 2021, featured advice from federal agency experts and BU faculty on how to navigate funding opportunities at the Department of Energy.
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 […]
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President Joe Biden appointed 30 members to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on Wednesday. In keeping with the Administration’s goal of expanding participation in science, half of the PCAST appointees are women and more than one-third are people of color and immigrants. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the National […]