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BU’s Cinema & Media Studies Program Celebrates 10 Years

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown |Cydney Scott

Film & TV CAS classes take a deep dive into the theory and aesthetics of filmmaking Twitter Facebook Filmmaker Dillon Bentlage says, with a smile, that he might not have been paying enough attention when he decided to major in Cinema & Media Studies at BU a decade ago. “Halfway through my major, I realized I wasn’t taking any classes about screenwriting, directing, or cinematography, and I was eager to start,” Bentlage (CAS’18) said during a small gala to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the...
Data Days for Good Gets Students to Address Real-World Challenges

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown |Cydney Scott

MassMutual and BU Spark! collaboration offers hands-on opportunity for Terriers to use their computer and data skills Student Life MassMutual and BU Spark! collaboration offers hands-on opportunity for Terriers to use their computer and data skills Twitter Facebook Crunch time hit just after 1:30 last Thursday afternoon in Room 1148C in MassMutual’s offices high above Boston’s Seaport District. The five BU students on Team Weber gathered in front of a big screen for a final run-through of...
COM Set to Open New Center on Media Innovation for Social Impact

2 months ago | bu.edu | Marc Chalufour |Cydney Scott

Initial projects in environmental justice storytelling slated for summer 2025 Marketing & Communications Initial projects in environmental justice storytelling slated for summer 2025 Twitter Facebook The science is undeniable: Earth’s climate is changing and communities around the world are already suffering the impacts. But, rather than catalyzing action, environmental storytelling often struggles to overcome an erosion of trust in the media and a landscape rife with misinformation and...
Check Out Wednesday’s Experiential Learning Expo

Dec 10, 2024 | bu.edu | Amy Laskowski |Cydney Scott

Innovation Event features 100-plus student projects from the Cross-College Challenge (XCC), the Learning Assistant Program, and BU Spark! Twitter Facebook A platform that helps campus building managers and organizations visualize and understand their energy use, water consumption, and waste so they can make smarter decisions. Explainer videos created by upperclassmen to help undergrads who struggle with post-lab write-ups and data analysis. And a photo project that captures students who use...
How a BU Researcher Found and Revived a Long-Lost Operatic Masterpiece

Dec 3, 2024 | bu.edu | Alene Bouranova |Cydney Scott

How a BU Researcher Found and Revived a Long-Lost Operatic MasterpieceCuban composer Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes’ opera El Caminante, rediscovered after more than a century, had its world (re)premiere at Boston University El Caminante, a long-forgotten Cuban opera, opens with a swell of sweeping, almost mournful strings.
West Nile, Zika, Coronavirus: This BU Researcher is Taking on Some of the World’s Most Serious Viruses-And He Plans to Win

Nov 21, 2024 | bu.edu | Molly Callahan |Cydney Scott

Virologist Mohsan Saeed’s research has the potential to save thousands of lives.
Women Have Been Shut Out of Computer and Data Science. BU Is Opening the Door

Nov 15, 2024 | bu.edu | Molly Callahan |Cydney Scott

Science & Technology The University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences has been uniquely successful in recruiting—and retaining—women in the field Twitter Facebook Across the United States, women make up roughly half the workforce and roughly half the population. But, zoom in on the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math), and it’s a starkly different story. In data science, for example, only about 15 to 20 percent of professionals in the field are women. It’s a trend...
Finding the Names of BU’s World War II Casualties Lost to Time

Nov 8, 2024 | bu.edu | Amy Laskowski |Cydney Scott

WWII History BU staffer Michael Tozeski (Pardee’25) has searched archival materials with the hope of ultimately creating a memorial on campus Twitter Facebook In his Thanksgiving address to the Boston University community in 1945, President Daniel L. Marsh honored the 223 BU students and alumni who died fighting in World War II. “Let it be kept in mind that very few of these men wanted to go; [the country] required them to yield up their lives,” said Marsh (STH’08, Hon.’53). “I now declare by...
“It Will Make CTE a Treatable Disease”: The Race for a Diagnosis in Life

Oct 11, 2024 | bu.edu | Andrew Thurston |Cydney Scott

Can CTE Be Diagnosed in Life? CTE can only be diagnosed after death, but BU researchers are pushing closer to a breakthrough—one that could give patients answers before it’s too late Michael L. Alosco (left) and Thor Stein are among the BU CTE Center researchers launching a major new study, Bank CTE, to accelerate efforts to diagnose the neurodegenerative disease in life.
College Students’ Mental Health Improves for the Second Year in a Row

Oct 2, 2024 | bu.edu | Amy Laskowski |Cydney Scott

BU public health researcher and national Healthy Minds Study principal investigator Sarah K.