Navy Awards $7.5 Million to BU-Led Neuroscientists
Hasselmo to oversee multi-center effort on rule learning in the brain Michael Hasselmo, director of BU’s Center for Systems Neuroscience, is principal investigator on the DOD grant. “How do brain circuits mediate learning rules of different types?” he asks. “To me, this is a central question of brain research.” Learning new rules is a part […]
COM Launches INVOLVD Political Smartphone App
Seeks to engage millennials, offers interactive features Users can find out where Clinton and Trump stand on nearly two dozen issues, including student debt, using the INVOLVD app (photo to the left). Still unsure who to vote for in next month’s presidential election? Unclear about where the candidates stand on a particular issue? Looking for […]
Signing for Obama
BU ASL interpreter at opening of new African American national museum Christopher Robinson, coordinator of outreach and training for the office of disability services, interprets the words of President Barack Obama at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 24. Photo courtesy of Katherine Kennedy. While most of […]
Celebrating BU’s African American Legacy
Washington events timed to opening of new museum Alumni Celebration Breakfast panelists Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15), NAACP president, Richard L. Taylor (COM’71), former Massachusetts secretary of transportation and BU’s first Rhodes scholar, and Andrea L. Taylor (COM’68), president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a trustee of the University. Photo by […]
BU Researchers Get State-of-the-Art MRI Scanner
$1.6 million from NSF for centerpiece of new Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging The Siemens 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner will be housed within the new Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering building, on BU’s Charles River Campus. Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Boston University researchers $1.6 […]
NEIDL Symposium: Talking about Infectious Diseases
Anthony Fauci, David Quammen address scientists, BU community members, the public National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci told the NEIDL symposium audience that because there have always been, and always will be, emerging infectious diseases, “we need people and efforts like those that are going on right here, at BU, and […]
Trustees Adopt Broad Climate Change Strategy
Cutting energy demand and avoiding investment in coal, tar sands included The Board of Trustees Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing has held several forums on fossil fuel divestment, including this one last December with CAS Professor Anthony Janetos. Photo by Cydney Scott. Expanding BU’s efforts to curb climate change, the Board of Trustees last […]
Gifts Endow Three New Career Development Professorships
Awards go to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty Jessica Simes, a CAS assistant professor of sociology, who studies incarceration and race, has been awarded the first University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. Photo (right) by Cydney Scott. When Jessica Simes was an undergraduate at Occidental College, she was captivated by issues of race and privilege in […]
University Continues Climb in U.S. News Rankings
Strategic plan, investment in faculty and students, drive progress BU’s four-way tie for 39th best college in the nation, as judged in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking, is its best-ever placement. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Boston University reached an all-time high in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, moving […]
NSF Funding Opportunities for Broadening STEM Participation
On Thursday, July 28, 2016, STELAR hosted a special webinar on behalf of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) highlighting upcoming funding opportunities within EHR especially aimed at broadening participation in STEM. Watch the webinar Download the presentation slides