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Wariness welcomed Gerry Fine four years ago when he was named to head Innovate@BU, an ambitious incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. “Our skeptics assumed that we would simply focus on tech start-ups emanating from engineering [students] and Questrom School of Business,” Fine recalls. Having a College of Engineering professor of the practice of mechanical engineering in the driver’s seat probably reinforced that impression.
But the feared parochialism never happened. Collaborating with Blake Sims, Innovate@BUsocial ventures program director, Innovate@BU has guided Terriers from across the University to develop their ideas, such as RefEd, an app with course instruction for refugee students lacking educational materials. The designers have hailed from schools all over the University, including Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences and Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.
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In 2010, 10 years before the COVID-19 pandemic gave many faculty members only a few days to master new teaching technologies, Binyomin Abrams was producing dozens of short videos and seamlessly integrating them into the coursework of first-year chemistry courses. Today, more than 80 videos, many of them tied to courses and webinars, help Abrams’ students learn fundamental concepts in chemistry. His videos, as well as his innovative approach to helping remote students attend labs synchronously, are among the reasons that the College of Arts & Sciences master lecturer in chemistry and director of general chemistry has been awarded the Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology. The annual award provides $10,000 to the faculty member who best exemplifies innovation in teaching by using technology.