There's no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
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Boston University is no small operation: it has over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 140 countries, 10,000 faculty and staff, 16 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study. BU was founded in 1839.
Boston University offers bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston’s South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study abroad programs in more than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten different countries (including the United States).
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD ‘55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.
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Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it's working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
Four years of 'America First' has seen the US retreat from the world. But as a scholar of international relations explains, Biden could return Washington to the role of a more moral global leader.
The vaccines that will first be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will have gone through a special approval process with the FDA. but just what is this expedited process?
Republicans have attacked the Affordable Care Act since it became law 10 years ago, yet Republicans were the ones who came up with the blueprint for the law. How did this twist happen?
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
Trump launched his trade war to save American manufacturing. An economist explains why it hasn't worked out as planned.
Differential privacy lets people to share data anonymously, but people need to know more about it to make informed decisions.
Lo que publican cambia con el tiempo, según la coyuntura, arman nueva propaganda; amplifican mensajes creados por otros, y su material y método varia según la red.
Un estudio de referencia de Estados Unidos demuestra de el estrés crónico del racismo puede contribuir a una pérdida de función cognitiva en las mujeres negras.
In a political environment as polarised as Rwanda’s, there is no room for moderates and no space for critical voices.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump's executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
In the middle of the pandemic, the Trump administration is pursuing policy and a court ruling that would take away health care from millions. Two scholars explain the details.
A landmark study shows chronic stress from racism can lead to loss of brain function in African American women.
Many also openly admit to spying on or stalking their partners, suggesting that they may not know that there's anything wrong with the behaviors.
Russian-affiliated Twitter accounts changed what they posted about, and used both text and images in ways that shed light on how these information warriors work.
Visits between foster children and their biological families are being disrupted and reunification hearings delayed.
A new study estimates that $22 billion to $30 billion dollars per year needs to be spent to maintain forests and reduce the likelihood of a pathogen jumping from wildlife to humans.
Violence in the criminal-justice system isn't limited to police. It's time to pay more attention to violent deaths within state prisons.
Working from home has become the new norm for many during the pandemic. But it's an opportunity that divides along racial and economic lines – and isn't as beneficial to the environment as many believe.
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Dean, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Law, Boston University
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Professor of History and Political Science, Boston University
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Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Boston University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University
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Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Boston University
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Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights and Professor of Law, Boston University
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Research Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University
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Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University
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Senior Academic Researcher, Boston University
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Clinical Professor, School of Law, Boston University
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Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Boston University
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Associate professor, Epidemiology, Boston University
