Earth House Doubles as Environmental Classroom
New student residence teaches more sustainable everyday living At Earth House, BU’s residential program in sustainability, both the house and its director, Nathan Phillips, serve as instructors. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Vivien Chen takes a five-minute timer with her to the shower. So does Mark Holaday, and they both use watt-counters when turning on lights […]
Why Money Flows Uphill
Power brokers choose economic efficiency over equality—in contrast to average Americans—economist Ray Fisman finds in study The majority of Americans tell pollsters they think income inequality is too high. Why then, asks behavioral economist Ray Fisman, has the response from policymakers been so tepid—even under popular two-term Democratic presidents? Photo (to the right) by Jackie […]
Two Eyes Needed to Research Outer Space Static
CAS scientists view ionosphere from both hemispheres BU Imaging Science Laboratory researchers (from left) Carlos Martinis, Michael Mendillo, Joei Wroten, and Jeffrey Baumgardner. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Who says you can’t be two places at the same time? At an MIT observatory west of Boston, a BU-built, three-foot-long, tubular camera stares with feline patience at […]
Digital Learning Initiative Announces New Grants
Support for faculty developing online education innovations Helping disadvantaged students is a national goal; BU’s Mark Greenman is testing whether technology can better teach them physics. Could a cousin of the much-heralded MOOC help disadvantaged high school students take college-level classes? That’s what BU’s Mark Greenman and colleagues are test-driving in a project that is […]
BU Talks Climate Action at the White House
Pledges to reduce its carbon emissions by 35 percent.
Paris Perspective
In French capital, CAS historian James Johnson analyzes Friday’s tragedy A man places a candle in front of the Carillon cafe in Paris Saturday, November 14, 2015, a day after over 120 people were killed in a series of shooting and explosions. AP Photo/Jerome Delay. France is under its first state of emergency in a […]
School of Medicine Launches Military Health Center
Conference tomorrow to showcase research to help servicepeople, vets Neurology resident Chantale Branson (left) and Anna Hohler, director of the new Center for Military and Post Deployment Health, at last year’s Joining Forces Conference. Photo by Ljiljana Popovic. More than half of the servicepeople who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan have service-related physical or mental […]
BU Alumni Association Events in October 2015
The BU Alumni Association held two Washington events in October: A Conversation with Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS ’79) on October 26 and a discussion of Mobile Money and Migrant Remittances on October 29.
Task Force Focusing on Faculty Diversity Created
Will consider new ways to increase underrepresented minorities A new task force comprising 18 faculty and staff members from both the Charles River and the Medical Campuses will address how to increase faculty diversity at BU. Photo by Cydney Scott. Earlier this semester, President Robert A. Brown and Jean Morrison, BU provost, appointed a task […]
A Taste of the Workplace for Liberal Arts Majors
New on-campus internship program offers experience, perspective Rebecca Behrends (CAS’17) (left) and Ericka Crankshaw (CAS’18) prepare memorabilia from opera singer Deborah Voigt at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Photo by Cydney Scott. When Linda Wells was dean of the College of General Studies, she was often asked by parents and students how a liberal […]