Susan Akram, director of the International Human Rights Clinic at the Boston University School of Law, said she saw generational trauma firsthand. Akram started teaching at BU in 1993, where she now supervises students representing international non-governmental organizations at the International Human Rights Clinic, IHRC.
Tianyu Wang, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, is more than just your course lecturer — he is a neuroscientist and Chipotle regular who recently received a $2.5 million grant for his research. The grant, from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, was to advance a research project he is conducting with professors from Yale University and Cornell University to improve deep tissue imaging inside the brain.
By Mara Mellits, Editor-in-Chief
• February 9, 2024
A video of Boston University men’s basketball forward Otto Landrum waving “hi, mom” on the court currently has over 7 million views — but it took Zachary Taub, a sophomore in the College of Communication, just 45 minutes to create.
It's a “wonderful, full circle, life-affirming experience,” said Alison Trainer of returning to her alma mater, the College of Fine Arts, as a faculty member, along with four more new hires.
From growing up in a small and overwhelmingly conservative town in northern Georgia to being the finance director for Sen. Ed Markey, recently-elected District 8 City Councilor Sharon Durkan has always had an interest in politics.
This story was written by a high school student in collaboration with Boston University’s Summer Journalism Institute. It has been edited by a BUSJI instructor, and fact checked and edited by Daily Free...
