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IMAGE: Airway cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells from a patient with cystic fibrosis (CF). Those infected with SARS-CoV-2 appear in green. New research is exploring the resulting biological response.. view more
Credit: Ruobing Wang, MD, Boston Children s Hospital
So far, based on clinical data, patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) don t appear to be especially susceptible to COVID-19, and when they do get infected, they don t seem to get sicker. But Ruobing (Ruby) Wang, MD, a physician-scientist in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at Boston Children s Hospital, cares for patients with CF and thinks there is more to the story.
A preexisting enrollments surge has been reinforced by national racial reckoning
Four new classes are rolling out this spring and next year
Rose Geer chose to major in English at BU with hopes of reading writers outside the traditional Western canon, particularly writers of color. She signed up for this spring’s Resistance, Revolution and Slavery in African American Literature course after last year’s Black Lives Matter protests and after a summer quarantine for COVID-19 crimped her participation in the resulting justice movement discussions.
“I needed to be in a space where racism and ‘the afterlife of slavery’…was the highest priority,” Geer (CAS’21) says. She found that space in this spring’s new African American studies Resistance, Revolution and Slavery
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As a nor’easter bore down on Boston in early December, dropping more than a foot of snow and leaving the campus all but empty, a convoy of trucks began to arrive at 665 Comm Ave for one of the largest concrete pours in Boston history. The goal of the meticulously choreographed project was to form the slab that will anchor the eventual 305-foot-tall, 345,000-square-foot tower that will be BU’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
BU’s eye-popping Center for Computing & Data Sciences. Image courtesy of KPMB Architects
The state-of-the-art building broke ground in 2020 and is expected to be completed by early 2023, Resembling a stack of books, the structure is an architectural feat, already winning an architecture award before its walls have even gone up. Designed to be über-eco-friendly, it’s heated and cooled by 31 geothermal wells, and its interior spaces have been designed to foster collaboration. When finished, the imposing structure will be
February 2, 2021
In his new book, Ibram X. Kendi, the bestselling author of “How to Be an Antiracist” and “Stamped from the Beginning,” uses the voices of scores of writers to tell the history of the journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present.
The acclaimed historian and leading scholar on racism co-edited the highly-anticipated new work of nonfiction, “Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019,” with Keisha N. Blain, historian and author of “Set the World on Fire.”
Released on Tuesday, it is the first single-volume history of African Americans penned by a “community” of Black writers and poets. With 90 contributors, each writer examined and wrote largely in 2019 about a five-year span of the 400-year history, employing a variety of genres ranging from historical essays to short stories to personal vignettes. The conclusion of each 40-year span ends with a poet capturing the period in verse.