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Gala’s Night Out
June 2019
Graduate Women in Science and Engineering 10-year Anniversary Gala, held at the Dahod Family Alumni Center: (top row, from left) Sanaya Shroff (ENG’21), Mounika Vutukuru (ENG’20), Radost Stanimirova (GRS’24); (middle row) Kim McCall, CAS professor, Cynthia Brossman (COM’94, Wheelock’12), LERNet director…
Particles & Pizza
June 2019
Few things in life are constant. In Boston, we need look no further than the weather or the T’s arrival times for proof of that.
But in nature, you can count on a few things to remain the same, regardless of time and place. For example, the speed of light is always 300 million meters per second…
Introducing High School Women to the World of Artificial Intelligence
June 2018
One has worked to mentor and support undergraduates enrolled in one of the country’s top business schools, another has created programs to recruit more students to pursue science, math,…
GROWing in the Lab
Aug 2016
The average annual salary for someone working in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields in the United States is $85,570, nearly double the salary ($47,230) of the average American worker. But while women make up about half of the workforce nationwide, they hold only 25 percent of STEM jobs
Recruiting Tomorrow’s Women Scientists
July 2013
Knowing that text messaging is teenagers’ preferred mode of communication, Tom Little capitalized on that recently to show how BU’s research into smart lighting technology could one day be used to send text messages and other data faster, cheaper, and more securely.
Perkins Winners Awarded Tomorrow
May 2013
Knowing that text messaging is teenagers’ preferred mode of communication, Tom Little capitalized on that recently to show how BU’s research into smart lighting technology could one day be used to send text messages and other data faster, cheaper, and more securely.
Falling in Love with Science Again
August 2012
Last week, high school science teachers Fjodor Dukaj and Jay DeFuria found themselves zipping along a 30-mile stretch of state highway in hot pursuit of a giant helium balloon they had just launched. Attached to its kite-like tail bobbed…
Computer Science: Not Just a Man’s World
July 2011
Ita Kane was standing guard last week in front of a series of makeshift cardboard ramps, playing the role of what she called “bad coordinator” while groups of high school girls tested robotic cars they’d built and programmed from scratch
Another Successful Chemistry Day!
May 2010
On April 30, high school students from Boston Community Leadership Academy (BCLA) visited the BU Chemistry Department for our second annual Chemistry Day. The forty-five BCLA students learned about acids and bases…