This weekend, BU hosted Tech For Change’s second annual Civic Tech Hackathon, a two-day competition in which students from across the country use technology to develop solutions for national challenges.
BU’s Institute for Global Sustainability hosted its first annual three-day CAFÉ Climate & Health Conference on Monday as part of a three-year $6.7 million grant funded by the National Institutes of Health for a climate-health research initiative led by the BU School of Public Health and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Jen Gunter, an obstetrician-gynecologist and pain medicine physician, discussed her new book about the stigma that surrounds women’s health issues and the importance of wielding correct medical information.
By Anna Albrecht, Arts & Community Editor
• February 2, 2024
In a climate where reproductive freedom is a critical centerpiece of conversation, Amber Vayo, a visiting assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is revealing the complexities of the politics of childbirth in a new seminar course.
Every prospective student at Boston University gets the same study abroad spiel. There’s something for everyone, a tour guide says walking backwards along Bay State Road.
By Sana Muneer, Managing Co-Editor
• November 1, 2023
College of Communication professor David Abel's newest climate change documentary, “Inundation District,” was featured as the closing night film of the GlobeDocs Film Festival this Sunday.
By Anna Albrecht, Arts & Community Editor
• October 25, 2023
Marshall Van Alstyne, a Questrom School of Business professor of information systems, and his team, received a $550,000 grant from The National Science Foundation to “explore the question of using markets to address misinformation.”
In 2021, Stephen Grossberg, professor of cognitive and neural systems at Boston University, released his "magnum opus," "Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind."
Abel, a professor of the practice in the journalism department and award-winning filmmaker, hopes teaching science journalism will “cast light on all kinds of false claims and disinformation about climate change.”
