New MOOC on Ethical Leadership Launches
Walter Fluker’s online course covers saints and sinners both Walter Fluker is a scholar of such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59), but his new online class also studies figures like the disgraced Richard Nixon and Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin. Photo by Cydney Scott. Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, Idi Amin, Richard […]
Commencement Speaker: Embrace Your Fear of the Unknown Future
Former CBS executive Nina Tassler says life took her to unexpected joys Commencement speaker Nina Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16) told BU graduates not to be afraid to edit their dreams and rewrite the story of what they want to do in life during the University’s 143rd Commencement Sunday. Video by BU Productions. Photo by Dana J. […]
Peace Corps Director Delivers Baccalaureate Address
CAS alum Hessler-Radelet urges grads to choose optimism, nurture relationships Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79), director of the Peace Corps, delivers the address at the 143rd Commencement Baccalaureate Service at Marsh Chapel. Video by BU Productions. Photos by Mike Ritter. As the current director of the Peace Corps and a former volunteer, Carrie Hessler-Radelet (CAS’79, Hon.’16) has […]
Sandro Galea’s Vision for Public Health
SPH dean emphasizes social justice issues like race, poverty Sandro Galea switched careers after a stint with Doctors Without Borders, leaving the immediate gratification of medicine to labor in the vineyard of public health. Photo By Eric Levin. Sandro Galea stood with his backpack at the edge of a small airstrip in Mendi, Papua New […]
Questrom Welcomes Renowned Sustainability Expert
Peter Fox-Penner heads University’s new Institute for Sustainable Energy Peter Fox-Penner, a Questrom School of Business professor of the practice, markets and public policy and law, is also a drummer, a fan of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, and a vegan. Photo courtesy of the Questrom School of Business. It’s not the rat race […]
Show Me the Data
First BU Data Science Day draws cross-disciplinary crowd Azer Bestavros, director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (center), and the cochairs of Hariri’s first BU Data Science Day, Prakash Ishwar (left) and Dino Christenson (right), were delighted by the large, cross-disciplinary crowd that came together to talk about how data […]
UROP Student’s Project: A Thinking Robot
Self-directed ‘bot can identify objects In the following video, watch Emily Fitzgerald’s artificially intelligent robot. “That is a ball.” “I do believe that is a cone.” “Seems like a wonderful book.” The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But […]
Interest in Computer Science Surges
Enrollment is way up, and more women are signing on Senior lecturer Dave Sullivan says changes in the Introduction to Computer Science course CS 111 have made it more appealing to students in general and women in particular. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Computer science has long been a popular subject on campus—but not like it […]
New MED Curriculum Aimed at Stemming Explosive Rise in Opioid Misuse
Response to governor’s request for help from medical schools Daniel Alford (SPH’86, MED’92), a School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and the assistant dean for continuing medical education, is leading the effort to expand MED’s opioid and addiction curriculum. Photo by Cydney Scott. Massachusetts—like the rest of the nation—is in the grip of a […]
Four Decades Forward: SPH Celebrates 40th Anniversary
MED offshoot now an international leader in research, graduate education Dean Sandro Galea in front of the Talbot Building, home of the BU School of Public Health, which kicks off its 40th anniversary celebration this month. Photo by Dan Aguirre. When the School of Public Health launches a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary tonight, […]