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How the Recession is Affecting Education
Boston University School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman explains how the recent economic downturn has affected educational careers.
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Boston University School of Education and Teachers' Unions
Boston University School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman describes his ideas for teachers' unions and how they can help poor teaching performances.
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How Math and Engineering Changed This Student’s Life: A Personal Story
When most people think of robots, what comes to mind is probably something with a hard shell, likely made of metal or plastic—and maybe shaped like a human. But when Boston University mechanical engineering major Sarah Alizadeh-Shabdiz thinks of [...]robots, she pictures a bendy, wiggly piece of rubber. Purple rubber. That’s because Alizadeh-Shabdiz (ENG’26) spent her summer doing research in BU’s Soft Robotics Control Lab.
Soft robots are just that: robots—or parts of robots—made from bendable, pliable materials, such as silicone rubber. Designers of soft robots often take inspiration from nature, looking at animals with naturally flexible limbs, like octopuses. The potential applications of their work are wide-ranging, from assisting with surgeries to engaging in search and rescue missions in difficult-to-squeeze-into places. In the Soft Robotics Control Lab, principal investigator Andrew Sabelhaus, a College of Engineering assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and his students are studying novel ways to improve how soft robots are controlled, as well as the fundamental physics underlying how they interact with the environment.
“Soft robots are understood in the scientific community to be inherently safer,” says Alizadeh-Shabdiz. This makes sense, intuitively: a robot arm made of soft rubber seems less likely to crush something than one made of hard plastic or metal. But it turns out that very little research has been done on exactly how much safer soft robots might be. Among Alizadeh-Shabdiz’s summer research projects was an experiment, funded by a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, designed to measure the force one of the lab’s soft robot limbs can exert on an object.
In the video above, find out why Alizadeh-Shabdiz needed the help of Toys“R”Us to complete her study and how her love of mathematics inspires her research—and her goal of becoming a teacher.
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Can BU Students Really "Learn from Anywhere"?
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, this semester BU has adopted a hybrid teaching and learning model called Learn from Anywhere. The model gives students a choice: attending class in person or remotely. How is it transforming the classroom [...]environment? We visited Culture & Environment, an anthropology class taught by Caterina Scaramelli, a CAS research assistant professor, to see how she and her students are adjusting to the new model.
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Remote Teaching and Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chemistry 102
In this video, Binyomin Abrams, master lecturer of chemistry at the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences, teaches his first class remotely, and talks about the challenges and rewards of remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 [...]pandemic.
It’s perhaps the biggest experiment in higher education in modern times. As universities across the country and world close their campuses and send students home to continue learning remotely, scholars and professors shift to remote teaching, reconnecting with their students via technology amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Read the article "Remote Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19" on BU Today: /articles/2020/remote-teaching-learning-chemistry-during-covid-19-pandemic/
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