Archive for ‘January, 2012’

Student organization advocates against proposed MBTA fare increases, service cuts

Boston University Against T Cuts and other students around the city are joining the fight against the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s proposed fare hikes. The MBTA’s debt is at its peak, set at about $5.2 billion, and the authority will be working under a $161 million operating deficit this fiscal year. The group united with [...]

Collaboration promises more jobs for homeless in Boston

Homeless people in Boston may receive more comprehensive assistance to help them out of unemployment after the announcement of Pine Street Inn and hopeFound’s partnership. Pine Street Inn and hopeFound, organizations dedicated to helping Boston’s homeless, offer shelter and resources for people to reenter the workforce. Based in the South End and Jamaica Plain, respectively, [...]

Union aims to increase publicity, engage students

“What I understand everyone’s goal to be is to utilize Union to increase student engagement and to increase Student Union’s dominance as a tool for student leaders to effect change,” said Student Union President Howard Male at the first Union senate meeting of the semester. Union members weighed Monday night on how to increase awareness [...]

SMG implements new ‘smart classrooms,’ students question efficiency

Boston University students expressed mixed reviews toward School of Management’s addition of “smart classrooms” aimed to improve instruction methods and test new interactive classroom technology. Implemented for the Spring 2012 semester, the smart classrooms are serving as sub-rooms for The Dynamics of Leading Organizations, a sophomore core class that includes small discussion sections and student [...]

BU profs find DNA connection to onset of menopause

Researchers at Boston University’s School of Public Health and School of Medicine found 13 new genetic areas associated with immune function and DNA repair affecting aging and the beginning of menopause, according to a press release. The BU press release stated associate professor of medicine Joanne Murabito and biostatistics professor Kathryn Lunetta concluded the genes [...]