The Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics department on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) was selected as the pilot for the Green Department Certification initiative through sustainability@BU. This is the first department to achieve 100% Green Office Certification and has already taken considerable steps in changing their collective behavior and administrative activities. David H. Farb, PhD, […]
The American Chemical Society (ACS) inducted BUSM Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the Mass Spectrometry Resource Catherine E. Costello, PhD as an ACS Fellow during the Society’s recent national meeting in Denver. Dr. Costello joins more than 200 distinguished scientists in receiving this honor. Selection is based on outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and important […]
It’s hard to miss the new student residence as you walk down Albany Street. Even in the rain the structure appears as a purple-blue and black façade against the clouds. The installation of the extended exposure sheathing, which gives the building its new temporary color, is complete. The air vapor barrier, which is black is […]
Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, and Jeffrey Samet, MD, MA, MPH, of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, have been named co-Editors in Chief of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (AS&CP) peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) […]
Judith A. Linden, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at BUSM and vice chair for education in the department of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has written an review article on the treatment of adult victims of sexual assault in an acute care setting that ran in the Sept. 1 issue of the […]
The student residence construction process continues to make headway with the completion of the precast skin of the building. The next step on the exterior is the installation of an extended exposure sheathing, which is a moisture and mold resistant panel designed to attach to the outside of sidewall framing. It serves as a water […]
Gray skies sprinkled with raindrops did not deter the parade of 173 first-year students as they wound their way along the paths of the Talbot green, ducking into the large white tent. They were enthusiastically greeted by applause and shouts of encouragement from several hundred friends and family. The annual White Coat Ceremony, held on […]
The exterior of the New Student Residence continues to change and evolve. Now that the cement-based precast skin of the building has been installed, it is time to add the brick elements of the façade. Together with glass, the brick and the precast skin work together to form the architectural identity of the building. As […]
BUSM Associate Professor Avrum Spira has won the university’s 2011 Innovator of the Year award which recognizes a BU faculty member whose cutting-edge research and ideas lead to the formation of companies that benefit society at large.
Researchers from BUSM were recently awarded a five-year $9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to mass-produce sickle cell anemia-specific induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells. Under the direction of principal investigators Martin H. Steinberg, MD and George Murphy, PhD, the researchers propose making iPS cells from the blood of patients […]