Paul Gugliuzza To Testify Before The House Subcommittee About Patent Reform
The professor of intellectual property law will offer his expertise on patent demand letters. Published by BU Law: Associate Professor of Law Paul Gugliuzza has been called to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on Thursday, February 26, 2015. The hearing, chaired by Michael C. Burgess (R-TX), […]
Astronomy: New Vision of the Final Frontier
Astronomer boldly redraws boundary at solar system’s end By: Kate Becker Women at the edge of STEM: Merav Opher, on the left, is the only female investigator on the Voyager team, shown here at a meeting in 2014. Suzanne R. Dodd, in middle, is program manager. Photo courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. […]
BU Provides Feedback on Proposed College Ratings Framework
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Triumph over Traumatic Brain Injury
Project CAREER prepares students for rigors of school, work Anna Saucier (CAS’18) (right), who is enrolled in Project CAREER, meets with technology and employment coordinator Amanda Nardone (SAR’13). Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Anna Saucier’s life changed in an instant during her sophomore year of high school. She remembers zipping across a soccer field to head […]
Beating the Binge
Alzheimer’s drug may reduce urge to eat compulsively BU professors Pietro Cottone and Valentina Sabino hope their research could eventually lead to new treatment for the disorder. Photo by Michael D. Spencer. Binge-eating disorder affects nearly 10 million American adults, by some estimates. It’s a vicious condition in which people repeatedly eat huge amounts of […]
Making TB the Next Polio
BU team lands $21 million NIH grant to study the disease When Jerrold Ellner started working in infectious disease, schistosomiasis was a greater concern to international health professionals than tuberculosis. Fast forward a few decades and TB is now among the greatest public health threats worldwide. There are nine million new cases and three million […]
Queen Anne Reconsidered
James Winn’s book examines flowering of arts during short 18th-century reign As a young man, James A. Winn was often advised that he would have to choose. He could be a serious literary scholar or a professional flutist; it was not possible to be both. Winn proved them wrong. He is now a William Fairfield Warren […]
Higher Alcohol Taxes May Lead to Less Binge Drinking
BU public health study finds strong correlation between price and alcohol consumption Study lead author Ziming Xuan of SPH says researchers’ findings are “really significant for public health,” because binge drinking causes more than half of nearly 90,000 alcohol-attributable deaths in the United States. In 2010, Tennessee, which has the country’s highest combined taxes on […]
The Search for Ancient Ice
Understanding what happened to the climate millions of years ago may tell us a lot about what will happen next Antarctica researcher studies past climate change to learn about the future. High in the Transantarctic Mountains, the McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest part of Antarctica not covered with ice. Instead, a seemingly endless carpet […]
New BU Tanglewood Institute Director Strikes Optimistic Chord
Respass seeks to boost profile, forge partnerships As the new executive director of the BU Tanglewood Institute, Hilary Field Respass is working to boost the profile and long-term viability of the prestigious program, which has trained gifted high school musicians since the 1960s. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Building on the legacy of her longtime predecessor, […]