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The Daily Free Press

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A letter from Boston University President Melissa Gilliam, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Gloria Waters and Vice President and Associate Provost Ad Interim for Research Thomas Bifano confirming BU’s commitment to research amid the National Institutes of Health funding cuts. The funding cuts are temporarily halted due to lawsuits from three universities, but research departments will have to find a way to cut costs if the policy is implemented. SIENA GLEASON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU, local universities react to NIH research grant funding cuts

Liam Dunne February 19, 2025
Universities and researchers react to research grant funding cuts by the NIH.
deceased professor David Jones

OBITUARY: Remembering SPH Professor David Jones

Nathan Lederman September 14, 2021
Tragic accident resulted from an old staircase giving way at a T-Station in Dorchester.
The Sept. 11 memorial on the BU Beach.The Boston University School of Public Health hosted a virtual conversation Friday titled “Twenty Years Later: Learning from 9/11” in reflection of the tragedy’s relationship to the field of public health. MEGHAN SCOTT/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

SPH, BU community reflect on 9/11, relates to public health

Paul Osheske September 13, 2021
Experts from New York discuss the World Trade Center Health Registry and general public health effects that came from 9/11.
Sweaty Penguin Podcast

Boston University celebrates Earth Week in multi-platform plans

Katarzyna Jezak April 22, 2021
Virtual activities include panel events, social media discussions and more.
dana-farber cancer institute in boston

Medicare for All online event discusses challenges in health care system

Sophie Nye March 25, 2021
BU School of Public Health held an event Monday on Medicare for All with author Abdul El-Sayed.
In a Thursday panel hosted by the Boston University School of Public Health, health experts discussed public policy issues that affected the U.S. coronavirus response. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

School of Public Health hosts panel discussing health care under Biden administration

Connor Allen February 8, 2021
BU's School of Public Health hosted experts in sociology, medicine and public health in a panel last Thursday to discuss potential policy changes the Biden Administration could adopt to improve health care in the United States for all.
Boston Medical Center. The BMC received its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14. COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Boston Medical Center receives its first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Juncheng Quan December 20, 2020
The vaccine arrived at BMC, which is affiliated with BU's School of Medicine, on Dec. 14.
Boston University’s School of Public Health hosted a virtual panel on Wednesday with “Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus” co-authors Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sexual assault researchers suggest campus-based offenses are complex, multi-layered

Ashley Soebroto November 19, 2020

Sexual assault is an issue prevalent on college campuses across the nation, and the phenomenon is worsening in recent years. Despite a number of initiatives working to prevent sexual assault, the...

A bill that would permanently ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products passed through the Massachusetts House of Representatives Wednesday. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DFP FILE ILLUSTRATION

Mass. House of Representatives approves permanent ban on flavored tobacco products

Kate Gilberd November 15, 2019
In an effort to combat under-age vaping, the state House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to ban the sale of flavored vapes and institute a 75 percent tax on all other vaping products.
Michael Siegel, a professor in the School of Public Health, discovered a link between a reduction in homicide rates and state laws restricting who can access guns rather than those that restrict the types of guns people have. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP STAFF

BU researchers study most effective gun laws

Amelia Murray-Cooper April 12, 2019
In the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings last month, New Zealand’s parliament voted to tighten the country’s gun laws. Across the United States, however, many policymakers dispute the best approaches to preventing gun violence.
Moisès Fernández relates art in society to healthcare as instructor of the workshop “From Authenticity to Expression” held Tuesday at School of Public Health. Fernández works as the Arts/Lab program’s founding director at BU Medical Campus. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU community creates art to practice mental wellness at workshop

Amelia Murray-Cooper November 29, 2018
Express, Heal, and Triumph, an SPH student organization founded in April, hosted the workshop, called “From Authenticity to Healing.” Students and faculty members were invited to relieve stress and express emotion through art.
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