Fifteen STaRS Share Their Summer Research

The Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) Program concluded its 10-week research experience with a virtual symposium held Aug. 6. Overseen here within Graduate Medical Sciences (GMS), the STaRS Program is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH. It has trained 150 scholars and received more than 3,000 applications since […]

U.S., Japan Bring Big Data and Data Analytics to Disaster Response

Rapid advances in information technology are providing new opportunities to improve disaster management. For example, new computer systems and networks — from sensor networks to smartphones and cyber-physical systems — are giving rise to powerful data streams that have the potential to facilitate timely and effective action during disasters. (More)

Achievement Day Abstracts due 4/3

Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day will take place this year on Friday May 1st.  Our Keynote Speaker and Visiting Professor  will be the distinguished leader in the field of Cancer Biology, Dr. David M. Livingston, Emil Frei Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Professor in the Department of […]

PhD Dissertation Seminars

CANDIDATE -Anna Eisenstein DEPARTMENT OR PROGRAM: Molecular and Translational Medicine TITLE OF DISSERTATION: “The Role of the A2B Adenosine Receptor in Adipogenesis and in Obesity-Induced Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” DATE, TIME, AND PLACE: Friday, April 25, 2014 at 9:00a.m. Boston University School of Medicine , 650 Albany Street, Room X-715

Scholars Day 4/15/14

Scholars Day 2014 will take place on Tuesday, April 15th in the George Sherman Union with abstract submissions due 4/6.   The abstract submission form for Scholars Day 2014 will be available between March 17-31 (starting and ending at noon on those dates) at http://www.bu.edu/provost/scholars-day-2014/.  Advisors will be asked to approve student abstracts by Sunday, April 6th.  […]

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