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By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Boston University Biomedical Engineering Department have identified a number of proteins whose activation allows them to distinguish between cancer and normal cells with almost 97 percent accuracy. In a...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – Boston University Academy (BUA) student and Lexington resident Elizabeth Synge won $20,000 for first place in the Advantage Testing Foundation's Math Prize for Girls competition held at New York University on November 14, 2009. With an additional $23,000 in prize money for n...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the second season of the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), Boston University’s professional performing arts initiative. This season, BCAP will feature two productions running at the Stewart F. La...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that fat collection in different body locations, such as around the heart and the aorta and within the liver, are associated with certain decreased heart functions. The study, which appears on-line in Ob...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these posi...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University Symphonic Chorus, under the direction of Ann Howard Jones, will perform a free concert at First Church in Cambridge on Tuesday, November 17. The concert will feature Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Tarik O’Regan’s Triptych, Stephen Paulus’ Poe...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – The Vasculitis Center at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has received a five-year $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant will be used to research new biomarkers for vasculitis disease activity and prognosis. The research will also devel...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that intermittent access to foods rich in fat and sugar induces changes in the brain which are comparable to those observed in drug dependence. The findings, reported in the journal Proceedings of the Nat...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Jerrold J. Ellner, MD, has been appointed chief of the section of infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Ellner previously had served as chair of the department of medicine at...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) -Avrum Spira, MD, MSc has been appointed as chief of the section of computational biomedicine in the department of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). This newly established division will develop and apply computational approaches to the analysis of high...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University (BU) will honor real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda Paul Rusesabagina and distinguished poet Sonia Sanchez at an event at BU’s Tsai Performance Center on November 10, 2009. Rusesabagina will be installed as a Martin...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Francis A. Farraye, MD, MSc, FACG, FASGE, a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and clinical director in the Gastroenterology Section at Boston Medical Center (BMC) recently received the William D. Carey Award from the American College of Gast...

By Allison Rubin Boston)– Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center found that yoga may be more effective than standard treatment for reducing chronic low back pain in minority populations. This study appears in the November issue of Alternative Therapie...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the multi-media installation Phantom, on view Tuesday, November 17, 2009 through Sunday, January 17, 2010 at the 808 Gallery at Boston University. The opening reception is open to the public and will be held on Wednesd...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – A team of researchers from Boston University School (BUSM), Carney Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University School of Medicine, have found that widespread poor compliance with regular cleaning of public restrooms on cruise ships may predict subsequent no...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the winners of its 2009 Distinguished Alumni and Faculty Awards. Since 1986, this award has been presented to CFA alumni and faculty who have made a significant contribution to the arts. This year’s awardees have d...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the group exhibition Creating Freedom: From Post-Revolutionary to Post-Communist Art in Hungary, A Selection of Forty Years of Hungarian art from the Nancy G. Brinker Collection, on view Tuesday, November 3 through...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) - The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University will host an evening with Tony award-winning actress and singer Betty Buckley. Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 and has been referred to as the “Voice of Brodway” ever since. Her career, marked by her rendit...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston)-Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have shown that an employer-sponsored, internet-based diet and exercise program shows promise as a low-cost benefit to lower healthcare costs for those at h...

By Colin Riley Boston) – Civic leader Andrea L. Taylor, director of North America Community Affairs for Microsoft Corporation and a former UN delegate, was appointed a trustee of Boston University at its recent board meeting, announced Board Chair Robert A. Knox.

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Ashvin N. Pande, MD, has been appointed as an attending physician and director of Endovascular and Structural Heart Interventions in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and recommended as assistant professor of medicine at Boston Unive...

By Colin Riley Boston) — WBUR and Boston University today announced that Chana Joffe-Walt, who covers global economics for NPR’s multimedia project “Planet Money,” was selected as the winner of the 2009 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize for a 24-minute investigative segment on the roots of last fall’...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Claudia P. Hochberg, MD, has been appointed an interventional cardiologist in the Department of Cardiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), and has been recommended as assistant professor of cardiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Boston University School of Medicine researchers (BUSM) have found that 50,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D2, given weekly for eight weeks, effectively treats vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D2 is a mainstay for the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in...

By Allison Rubin Boston) - Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) CityLab program has received a five year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR).

By Phil Gloudemans HOLYOKE, Mass.)- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick today joined University of Massachusetts President Dr. Jack Wilson, Holyoke Mayor Michael Sullivan, leaders from Boston University and MIT, and senior executives from EMC, Cisco and Accenture to announce initial construction...

By Mary Tunney Boston) – Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Boston University, was appointed to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) for a term...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Robert Helm, MD, has been appointed as an electrophysiologist in the Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and has been recommended for assistant professor of medicine and radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

By Lauren Domingos Boston) - The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) and Historic New England present Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England. The exhibition features 100 drawings of houses selected from the rich collections of Historic New England. The drawin...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University School of Visual Arts at the College of Fine Arts is pleased to announce acclaimed German photographer Thomas Struth will be the featured artist in the sixth annual Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture Series on Monday, October 19 at Boston University. The l...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and four other institutions have been awarded an $11 million, two-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Recovery Act. This grant will allow...

Boxborough, MA) — Digital Reef (www.digitalreefinc.com) today announced that the company’s founder and CTO, Steve Akers, has been awarded the 2009 Metropolitan College Distinguished Computer Science Alumni Award from Boston University for his work in the field of computer science a...

By Jeffrey Baumgardner Boston) – Boston University astronomers announced today observations of a cloud of sodium gas ejected from the Moon’s surface as a result of the NASA impact experiment that was part of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission (LCROSS). Jeffrey Baumgardner and Jody Wilson, senior rese...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Investigators from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the VA Boston Healthcare System have shown, at 6 months in a small group of patients, that there is no difference in efficacy between Bevacizumab (Avastin) and Ranibizumab (Lucentis) for the treatment of age...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a tool, the “Getting-Out-of-Bed (GoB) measure” to assess motivation and life outlook in older adults. The study, which appears in the October issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, shows t...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified genes which may influence the onset age of Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The findings, which currently appear on-line in BMC Medical Genetics, are the first to identify genes contributing to the varia...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have concluded that the 940nm wavelength laser is superior for treating facial spider veins (telangiectasias) as compared to the 532nm wavelength laser. The findings, which appear in the recent issue of Lasers in...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Laser and Skin Cancer Center of Indiana, (Carmel, Indiana), found that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of procedures performed and patient demand for dermatologic health care since 2000. Th...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) –Michael Holick, PhD, MD, director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic and the Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory at Boston University School of Medicine BUSM recently received the 2009 NAMS/Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc.Vitamin D Research Award from the North America...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The thirteenth annual Fall Fringe Festival, presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts, begins October 9 and continues through November 1. This year’s festival features the BU Schools of Music and Theatre with the BU Opera Institute, and will include two one-act o...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Framingham Heart Study (FHS) has received a two-year $1M challenge grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

By Allison Rubin Boston) –As the population ages, it is imperative that medical students are prepared to treat older adults, regardless of their specialty. Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report that an interdisciplinary multisite fourth-year geriatrics clerkship, has...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – The Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS) of the Sloan Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) has received a five-year continuation of grant funding award from the National Cancer Institute. The $9.1M award will cover years 16-20 of the largest follo...

By Allison Rubin Boston) - Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that pediatricians provided with the proper communication, educational and information technology tools and training could reduce the rates of children developing early childhood caries (ECC) or cav...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are recommending that menopausal women on hormone therapy (HT) continue their treatment prior to having their annual mammogram screenings. These recommendations appear as an editorial in the current on-line is...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with researchers from Lahey Clinic Northshore, Peabody, Mass., believe that androgen deficiency might be the underlying cause for a variety of common clinical conditions, including diabetes,...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) - The School of Music in the College of Fine Arts, the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and the Marsh Chapel, will host the international conference entitled “Perspectives on Haydn Scholarship in Celebration of H. C. Robbins Landon” on October 1-2, 2009. This conference is...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – Award-winning chef, television personality and author Jacques Pepin hosts “The Big Event”, a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Boston University Culinary Arts Program through Metropolitan College on October 28, 2009. Taking place at the 808 Gallery, located at 808...

By Colin Riley Boston) – Boston University President Robert A. Brown announced today that the Feld Family Foundation has pledged $10 million to enhance the university’s faculty development and other university projects.

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – Boston University Academy (BUA) sophomore William Kong Maness, son of Dr. William L. Maness and Dr. Celeste Kong Maness of Boston, performed at the 2009 Boston Arts Festival with the Community Music Center of Boston. The performance took place on September 11 at Columbus Park on th...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) - The Friends of the Libraries at Boston University, together with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, will host an evening with acclaimed Newsweek journalist and award-winning author Christopher Dickey. Dickey currently serves as Newsweek's Paris Bureau Chief an...

By Ellen Carr Washington, D.C.) – For the first time, Boston University College of Fine Arts' InCite Arts Festival will take place in Washington, D.C., October 30 through November 2, under the artistic direction of Olney Theatre Center's Jim Petosa. A schedule of events and ticketing information is incl...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Duyen Ngo, MD, has been appointed Attending Physician in the Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Oncology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and an Instructor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

By Ellen Carr Boston) – The Boston University School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents the group exhibition Casual Males on view Tuesday, September 15 through Sunday, October 25, 2009 at the Sherman Gallery at Boston University. The opening reception is open to the public and will be held on Thursday, Sep...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) - Robert K. Dodson, an educator with over 30 years’ experience as a teacher and administrator at prestigious music schools in the United States and Canada, will serve as Director of the School of Music in the Boston University College of Fine Arts, announced Walt C. Meissner, Dean a...

By Allison Rubin Boston)- Justin Massengale, MD, has been appointed an attending physician in the Department of Neurosurgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and will be recommended for the position of assistant professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

By Allison Rubin Boston)- In an effort to reduce underage drinking and alcohol abuse, Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) CityLab program in collaboration with Boston University School of Public Health, completed the first phase of a pilot curriculum for the National Institute on Alcohol...

By Colin Riley Boston) — Alan M. and Sherry M. Leventhal have pledged $10 million to Boston University, a contribution intended to motivate substantial parallel gifts for student financial aid and professorships, announced BU President Robert A. Brown.

By Allison Rubin Boston) -Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) will present The Eighth Annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology on Friday, September 11, 2009 at noon in the School’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmona...

By Richard Taffe Boston) — Isabel Wilkerson, the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, and online news pioneer Michelle Johnson have joined the journalism faculty at Boston University, BU College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler announced today.

By Colin Riley Boston) - James A. Winn, a College of Arts & Sciences English Language & Literature faculty member, and director of the Boston University Humanities Foundation, was named a Boston University William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor for his exceptional scholarship...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) - The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) opens its season with the largest ever exhibition of Korean missionary photographs in the United States, Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity. A travelling show, organized by The Korea Societ...

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University College of Fine Arts is proud to announce its 2009-2010 season, featuring concerts, plays, operas, exhibitions, and lectures from CFA’s schools of Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts. The College presents close to 400 visual and performing arts events thro...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal brain activity when looking at facial expressions of others. The fi...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College has introduced a new phase of the unique and innovative nutrition program for the students, faculty and staff of Boston University (BU) to enhance the Sargent Choice Healthy Dining Program. Si...

By Lauren Domingos Boston) – Boston University’s Metropolitan College (MET) is announcing a scholarship for those currently in the care of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) which will offer patients and survivors an opportunity to jumpstart their educational initiatives. Starting with the Fall 20...

By Allison Rubin Boston)– Liezl G. Irisari, MD, has been appointed attending physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and instructor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Igor Kramnik, MD, Ph.D, has joined the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) Institute as the director of the aerobiology core and associate professor of medicine and member of the pulmonary center at Boston University School of Medicine. Kramnik also w...

By Allison Rubin Boston) – Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and collaborators have discovered and analyzed several new compounds, collectively called the ‘‘EUK-400 series,’’ which could someday be used to prevent radiation-induced injuries to kidneys, lungs, skin, i...

By Colin Riley Boston)- Boston University announced today that it has selected SAP’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to provide a central source for faculty and staff to access key data and tools to automate and streamline its business processes, including financials, human resource...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Boston University School of Medicine researchers (BUSM) have observed in a study of pregnant women that consumption of at least seven servings per day of fruits and vegetables moderately reduced the risk of developing an upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). The BUSM stu...

By Gina M. Digravio Boston) - Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that patients with uncontrolled hypertension respond to treatment intensification regardless of their degree of adherence to antihypertensive medications. This study, which has been published onl...

By Colin Riley BOSTON – Lease contract discussions are underway between Boston University (BU), owner of the Sargent Center for Outdoor Education (SCOE) in Hancock, N.H., and Nature’s Classroom, the Charlton, Mass.-based non-profit environmental education organization, to offer educational pro...

By Richard Taffe Boston) — Boston University's Boston High School Scholarship Program -- America’s largest and longest-running scholarship program for urban public high school students -- has presented 20 recent graduates of Boston public high schools a total of more than $5.2 million worth of four-...

By Ronald Rosenberg Boston) --- The American University in Beirut will honor Boston University professor Farouk El-Baz with a Doctor of Science degree for his outstanding contributions to geology and a better understanding of the Earth and its environment.

  MA Watch the slide show above to hear Zach Horowitz (SMG'10), president of BU's Habitat for Humanity chapter, talk about last April's Sleepout. The ways Boston University students reach into the community around us are an ongoing source of fascination ...

By BU Athletics For the fourth consecutive year and the seventh time in the past eight years, Boston University has captured the America East Stuart P. ... and more »

By Jean Connaughton Boston) – The Boston University College of Fine Arts is proud to announce the 2009 season of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), presented by the BU School of Music. Since 1966, BUTI has welcomed a select group of gifted high school musicians to the Tanglewood grounds for a...

By Tom Testa Boston) — Ten students from among the graduating seniors of the parochial high schools in the Archdiocese of Boston will receive four-year, full-tuition scholarships to Boston University through the Cardinal Medeiros Scholarship Program at a June 1 ceremony at BU’s George Sherman U...

By Phil Gloudemans Boston) – Philanthropist Robert J. Hildreth, vice chair of Boston University’s Board of Overseers, has donated $2 million to Creative Writing Programs at the College of Arts & Sciences, and challenged alumni to raise an additional $1 million, announced Robert A. Brown, BU presiden...

By Phil Gloudemans BOSTON – Health law and bioethics expert George Annas, and bioengineer and inventor James Collins, were named the first two William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors at Boston University for their outstanding contributions to teaching and research, announced Robert A. Bro...

By Phil Gloudemans Boston) – Speaking today at Nickerson Field to over 6,300 Boston University graduates and 20,000 guests at the school's 136th commencement, U.S. Rep. Michael E. Capuano exhorted the Class of 2009 to find fulfillment in their lives by improving the world they are inheriting.

By Michelle Roberts Boston)—Thirty-one students graduated from Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) CityLab Academy today. CityLab Academy is a free nine-month academic and laboratory skills training program for qualified high school graduates interested in pursuing a career and further e...

  MA A furnace away, two Boston University students fitted with safety goggles are molding and shaping their work, preparing for a final critique. They're learning the art of glass making through the College of Fine Arts course Glassblowing, held at Diablo. ...

By Phil Gloudemans Boston) – U.S. Rep. Michael E. Capuano, who has emerged as a major voice in Congress concerning the ongoing atrocities and genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, will deliver the commencement address at Boston University’s 136th graduation ceremonies at BU’s Nickerson Field at 1:00 p.m. on S...

By Michelle Roberts Boston) – Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that heavier intrauterine cocaine exposure (IUCE) is associated with mild compromise on selective areas of neurocognitive development during middle childhood. The BUSM study appears in the May issue of...