New Targets to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Chemist Arturo Vegas wins $1.4 million NIH grant to develop therapies that intervene at early stage of disease Arturo Vegas wants to create novel therapies that will either suppress rogue immune cells attacking the pancreas of people with type 1 diabetes or strengthen the pancreas’ defenses against the rogue cells. Photo courtesy of Arturo Vegas. […]
SPH Study: Alcohol Policies Contribute to Suicide Prevention
Reducing availability reduces average risk An SPH study finds that policies like higher alcohol taxation and zero tolerance laws for underage drinkers who drive while intoxicated are associated with lower rates of suicide. Photo by Flickr contributor Thomas Hawk. Excessive drinking has long been known to play a role in suicides. A recent review led […]
BU-Led Neuroscientists Get $7.5 Million from US Navy
CAS prof oversees multicenter effort on brain’s rule learning Michael Hasselmo, director of BU’s Center for Systems Neuroscience, is principal investigator on the Navy grant. “How do brain circuits mediate learning rules of different types?” he asks. “To me, this is a central question of brain research.” Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Learning new rules is […]
One Class, One Day: On the Trail of Boston’s Missing Rs
Linguistics class follows the path of dialects Neil Myler, a CAS assistant professor of linguistics, says that Bostonians’ missing r disappeared long ago and across the Atlantic. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of articles about […]
CAS Launches New Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Focus on 20th- and 21st-century atrocities, and prevention In launching a new minor in Holocaust and genocide studies at the College of Arts & Sciences, faculty hope that BU students won’t just learn history, but learn from history. Students will study how the 20th century’s most horrific state-sponsored mass murders, from the Nazi Holocaust to […]
The Cities of Tomorrow: How Research and Innovation Can Help Address the U.S. Infrastructure Crises
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and Boston University co-hosted a discussion of the future of federal policies for smart cities and the cutting edge research and innovation that makes these advances possible. Thursday, October 27, 2016, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 1101 K Street NW, Suite 610A Washington, DC 20005 […]
Hospitals Cut Readmissions, But at What Cost?
Critics say Medicare program penalizes safety-net hospitals Report says that safety-net hospitals should be compared to other safety-net hospitals, rather than put into one broad category. Photo by EunikaSopotnicka/iStock. Safety-net hospitals, which serve large populations of low-income patients, have made significant progress in reducing patient readmissions under a federal penalty program, but adjustments to the […]
Navy Awards $7.5 Million to BU-Led Neuroscientists
Hasselmo to oversee multi-center effort on rule learning in the brain Michael Hasselmo, director of BU’s Center for Systems Neuroscience, is principal investigator on the DOD grant. “How do brain circuits mediate learning rules of different types?” he asks. “To me, this is a central question of brain research.” Learning new rules is a part […]
Celebrating BU’s African American Legacy
Washington events timed to opening of new museum Alumni Celebration Breakfast panelists Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15), NAACP president, Richard L. Taylor (COM’71), former Massachusetts secretary of transportation and BU’s first Rhodes scholar, and Andrea L. Taylor (COM’68), president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a trustee of the University. Photo by […]
Gifts Endow Three New Career Development Professorships
Awards go to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty Jessica Simes, a CAS assistant professor of sociology, who studies incarceration and race, has been awarded the first University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. Photo (right) by Cydney Scott. When Jessica Simes was an undergraduate at Occidental College, she was captivated by issues of race and privilege in […]