Antiracism As Health Policy: Race, COVID-19, and Policy Reform
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Antiracism As Health Policy: Race, COVID-19, and Policy Reform
Join Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the BU School of Public Health, and the BU Center for Antiracist Research for a three-part series in April examining racial disparities in health and how they can be addressed through policy. RSVP today
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University Distributes $11.5 Billion in Federal Pandemic Aid to Students
BU has distributed half of its allocation from the federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund to students in need, with the rest to be used to pay down the pandemic-related costs of operating campus. Here’s how we did it
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Investing in the Commonwealth’s Future
Boston University, Harvard University, and MIT ask the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to invest in federal student aid, research, and the humanities in fiscal year 2022. Make an investment
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In Case You Missed It…
Joshua Pei, Jessica Zheng, and Takeo Rivera of the BU College of Arts & Sciences have a conversation about the increase in anti-Asian racism… More than 100 BU medical and dental students received training to be volunteer COVID vaccinators… Douglas DeNatale of BU Metropolitan College explains how arts organizations struggle during the pandemic in The Boston Globe… Linda Sprague Martinez of the BU School of Social Work describes the community impact of the high COVID death rate among young Latinos in The Washington Post… Michael Meurer of the BU School of Law discusses how the U.S. patent system could encourage greater innovation in The Conversation… Jeffrey Baumgardner and Sarah Luettgen of the BU Center for Space Physics talk about their research into the Moon’s comet-like tail in The New York Times.