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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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Secrets out? EPA/Dennis Brack

Senate CIA torture report release: expert reaction

Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London; Claudia Hillebrand, Aberystwyth University; Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University; James J. Walsh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Joseph Wippl, Boston University; Michael J. Glennon, Tufts University; Peter Bloom, The Open University; Samantha Newbery, University of Salford, and Tom Packer, University of Oxford

The US Senate has released the executive summary of a long-withheld report on harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA in the post-9/11 era. Previously undisclosed techniques have been revealed and…
This crowd wants their president out David W Cerny/Reuters

Prague’s velvet: wearing off 25 years later

Igor Lukes, Boston University

The United States had just gone through a bruising election, but in Congress Democratic and Republican leaders gathered to unveil the bust of Vaclav Havel, the playwright and first post-Communist Czech…
What difference will President Obama’s executive order make for this family? Sandy Huffaker/Reuters

The president’s executive order: what difference will it make for immigrants?

Katharine Donato, Vanderbilt University; Alina Das, New York University; Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University; Elizabeth Lee Young, University of Arkansas; Eric Segall, Georgia State University; Helen Marrow, Tufts University; Jennifer Lee, University of California, Irvine; John Logan, Brown University; Roberto G. Gonzales, Harvard University; Susan M. Akram, Boston University, and Vincent T Gawronski, Birmingham-Southern College

Editor’s note: On November 20, President Obama announced a plan - through an executive order - to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation if they meet certain criteria. His move has…
He’s not done yet Larry Downing/Reuters

Is the Obama presidency over?

Thomas J. Whalen, Boston University

Is the Obama presidency over? This has been the burning question on the lips of many Washington DC pundits and beltway insiders in the wake of devastating Democratic midterm election losses. According…
A view of the atrium from the Calderwood Courtyard. Zak Jensen

A preview of Harvard’s $350 million art museum renovation

Melanie Hall, Boston University

After ten years of planning and six years of construction the Harvard Art Museums opens its doors to the public on November 16. The $350 million renovation combines the collections of three distinct museums…
Opioid addicts now being armed with overdose antidote. Gretchen Ertl/Reuters

Explainer: naloxone, the antidote to opioid overdose

Edward Bernstein, Boston University

Many first responders’ – even some university police officers – are carrying a new tool in their first-aid kits. It’s naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote drug, and today it’s more widely available than…
Prop 91 - just one of three ballot initiatives on marijuana decriminalization Steve Dipaola/Reuters

Ballot initiatives take the pulse of the nation

Jonathan F Will, Mississippi College; Ian Partridge, The University of Texas at Austin; Kevin Lang, Boston University; Rachel Volberg, UMass Amherst, and Robert A. Mikos, Vanderbilt University

Editor’s note: There were 146 state-wide ballot measures up for consideration by voters in this week’s midterm elections, covering all manner of controversial issues – from abortion and guns to minimum…
Russians protesting murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkavskaya. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

How do you frighten political strongmen? Teach journalism.

Thomas Fiedler, Boston University

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine stood talking before an attentive group in a hotel conference room when the doors burst open and six stern-faced government agents strode in and demanded he halt the…
On the comeback trail? flickr: London looks

Mammoth cloning: the ethics

Julian Savulescu, Monash University and Russell Powell, Boston University

The display of a frozen mammoth in Japan has again raised questions as to the possibility of creating a live born clone of extinct animals. Theoretically, mammoths could be cloned by recovering, reconstructing…

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