American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects Michael Hasselmo
CAS neuroscientist known for pioneering research—and building community Michael Hasselmo combines experiments and computational modeling to study how memory works in the brain. Photo (left) by Michael Spencer Photography. Michael Hasselmo, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, who is known for his pioneering research into memory as well as […]
Diversity in Science – Where I’m Coming From
Underrepresented voices in science offer unique perspectives Photo above provided by Jackie Ricciardi. SCIENCE, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE the entirety of the physical and natural world, is missing something. So is engineering. According to a report issued last year by the National Science Foundation (NSF), blacks and Hispanics are underrepresented both as recipients of […]
MED Researcher Ann McKee Makes TIME’s 100 Most Influential People List
Carmen Yulín Cruz (CAS’84), San Juan mayor, also named Two BU affiliates, MED’s Ann McKee, a CTE researcher, and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (CAS’84), made TIME’s list of 100 most influential people. Photo courtesy of Time. Ann McKee “may have saved my life,” former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland writes in TIME magazine’s annual […]
BU Cybersecurity Expert on How to Protect Yourself from Internet Scams
Millions of Saks, Lord & Taylor customers compromised in recent hack BU’s cybersecurity director has tips for defeating online scams like the one that stole millions of customers’ information recently from Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor. Photo credit: iStock/wdstock. In the 21st century, it seems, life is a breach. Hackers made news again […]
Groundbreaking for “New” Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Dean says SDM is “on its way into and beyond the 21st century” Breaking ground for the Goldman School of Dental Medicine renovation and addition: Michael Donovan and Gary Nicksa, BU VPs (from left); Karen H. Antman, MED dean and Medical Campus provost; Jeffrey Hutter, SDM dean; David Lustbader, (CAS’86, SDM’86), SDM Dean’s Advisory Board […]
College of Engineering Will Now Require Data Science for All Majors
Change will prepare students for a digital and maker economy In new mathematics and statistics courses, ENG students will learn to analyze huge data sets and be introduced to machine learning, a major component of autonomous systems, like self-driving cars and robotics. For decades, product developers have depended on a primary engineering discipline to turn […]
MLK, 50 Years Later: BU Community Reflects on Civil Rights Leader’s Legacy
TEXT BY BU TODAY STAFF | PHOTOS BY JANICE CHECCHIO VIDEOS BY ALAN WONG On the night of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) was gunned down on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tenn. The most prominent voice in the US Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, King […]
BU Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59)
Events all week long commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death Boston University will observe the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) with a weeklong series of lectures, church services, and concerts. Photo by Jerónimo Bernot on Unsplash. This week, the world is marking the 50th anniversary of the […]
BU Researchers: The American Frontier Continues to Shape Us
Residents of these western areas more Republican, anti-tax, anti-regulation A family during the Great Western Migration, 1866. The frontier closed 130 years ago, but its individualist ethos continues to incline Americans living in old frontier counties to anti-government, anti-tax, anti-regulation views, say BU researchers. Public domain photo. Easterners who heeded the 19th-century call to “Go […]
U.S. News Rankings: BU Grad Schools among Nation’s Best
Six schools in top 50 in 2019 assessments The Questrom School of Business part-time MBA program jumped 10 spots in the U.S. News 2019 rankings of the country’s best graduate school programs. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Several schools within Boston University advanced in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of the country’s best graduate […]