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Societal Engineering in :60
At the end of the day, we believe, it's the responsibility of a university to give students not only a meaningful education, but a meaningful life. And BU's College of Engineering (ENG) has been forging the path.
"The concept of a 'societal [...]engineer' is so unique it's been trademarked by the US Patent Office," says Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen.
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Raising $1 Billion in :60
During the quiet phase of our first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign, we received more than $420 million in gifts and pledges. And Boston University Trustees led the way with significant early gifts. Now, we're turning up the volume. Way up.
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Middle East Medicine in :60
Last winter, medical student Ashish Premkumar (CAS'10, MED'13) worked with a team of doctors and medical students at the Volunteer Outreach Clinic in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. There, like his hero Paul Farmer, Premkumar discovered [...]that treating patients is just the beginning.
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A Law Tower Makeover in :60
Thanks to an $18 million gift from media mogul Sumner M. Redstone (Hon.'94) and other generous donations, next year's incoming class of law students will get to break in a brand-spanking-new addition to the existing Law Tower.
The project, [...]currently under way, will result in a 93,000-square-foot, 5-story structure, which will house most of the Law School's new high-tech classrooms. The current 18-story building, built in the Brutalist style, has suffered space constraints as the program has grown and the field changed.
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Student Athletics in :60
By the time you finish reading this, Katie Matthews (SAR'12,'14) could have run a quarter mile. Or diagnosed a handful of speech disorders. She's as fast as they come and not just on the track. This year, Matthews shattered her own school record in [...]the 5,000m with a 15:42:27. And her 3.94 GPA helped earn the speech pathology major 2013 America East Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Woman of the Year. Matthews, who also owns school records in the 3K and outdoor 5K, was named to multiple America East All-Academic squads and honor rolls. The five-time All-American is now pursuing her master's in speech pathology at BU while running professionally. "The academic and athletics sides definitely fed each other while I was an undergraduate. I don't think I could have achieved as much in either area without the other."
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BU Teams Up with edX in :60
t's a brave new world in education. So we were thrilled this year to team up with edX, the exclusive MIT- and Harvard-led online learning platform. For the past year, our Council on Educational Technology & Learning Innovation (CETLI) has been [...]exploring and developing our digital offerings. EdX takes things up a few notches. Like the consortium, we're a champion of for-credit classes that mix face-to-face instruction with online work. That means faculty can shift time spent on lectures to one-on-one or small-group teaching, to field trips, or to additional seminars that delve more deeply into topics.
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Reaching the Silent Ones in :60
elen Tager-Flusberg was born in England. She did her graduate work at Harvard in experimental psychology in the 1970s when B. F. Skinner still roamed the halls. But it's at BU that she's tackling one of the most baffling—and [...]neglected—areas of autism research. Reaching and testing children with no language skills.
Last fall, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $10 million to establish an Autism Center of Excellence, giving hope to scientists and to the families of children on this dark end of the autism spectrum. Researchers put their number at 30 percent. Tager-Flusberg, a professor of psychology, will lead the effort.
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Anthropology in :60
As an upright human being, Jeremy DeSilva feels an irresistible pull to tell the stories of our ancestors' bones. Ancient ones, in particular. "I'm completely hooked on bringing these things back to life. I see the bones they have left as this [...]incredible gift, a very rare window into reconstructing the way things used to be."
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Health Communications in :60
As a grad student researching her master's thesis at a Toronto clinic in the early 1990s, Catharine Wang remembers watching women being tested for the newly cloned BRCA-1 gene, a risk indicator for breast cancer. At the time, the genetic science was [...]cutting edge and she saw patient upon patient unable to grasp the slew of radical information being thrown at them—about risks and probabilities. Some of them simply tuned out.
Today, the genetics-testing market is booming, with private companies are offering DNA tests for individuals at affordable prices. But it's not one-size-fits-all, Wang cautions. And context is critical. Multiple factors, such as lifestyle and environment, enter into the risk equation, not just hereditary probabilities, which more often than not land in a gray area. Wang's ongoing research, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), is examining methods to effectively communicate genetic and environmental risk information for public health promotion and disease prevention.
"The rapid pace at which we're understanding the genetic causes of human diseases is mind-boggling," she says. "It's almost like information overload. If we can empower patients to be better communicators, they can take control over their health."
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