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Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers
This year’s recipients are rising stars in the study of Latin American literature, molecular and cellular processes, religious history, chemistry, and physics-inspired computing
They’re scholars of Latin American literature and Asian history, experts in biomedical engineering and computing, organic chemistry, and biology—and now, five rising star Boston University faculty are also winners of prestigious Career Development Professorships. The high-caliber awards, given annually by BU’s Office of the Provost, recognizes “talented junior educators emerging as future leaders within their respective fields.”
The professorships provide stipends for the recipients’ salaries and research for the next three years. The awards are named in honor of the donors and alumni who fund them, with winners nominated by their respective deans and selected by the provost’s office.
“Our current cohort of Career Development Professo
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“A Lasting Legacy of Excellence”: Reflections on President Brown’s Impact on BU Research
To see President Robert A. Brown’s impact on research at Boston University, you just need to take a walk through its campuses. A series of striking buildings, all built within the past two decades, are the physical representation of the University’s emergence as a world-class research institution during Brown’s tenure: the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, the National framträdande Infectious Diseases Laboratories, and—most recently—the eye-catching Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
After 17 years as BU president, Brown has announced his retirement; he’ll step down at the end of the academic year.
During his time leading the University, sponsored research awards have grown by 74 percent, and federal research expenditures reached a record high of $ million last year. Writing to the BU community to share the news of his retirement, Brown celebrated BU’s
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Obama senator biography
Personal
Barack Hussein Obama II was born August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii, to parents Barack H. Obama, Sr., and Stanley Ann Dunham. His parents divorced when he was 2 years old and he was raised by his mother, Ann, and maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham. His motherlater married Lolo Soetoro, and his sister Maya was born in (He also has several siblings on his father’s side.)
Obama moved with his family to Indonesia in , where he attended local Indonesian schools and received additional lessons via U.S. correspondence courses under his mother’s direction.
He returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in and attended Punahou School, from which he graduated in Obama first attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in
After graduation, Obama briefly worked as an analyst at Business International Corporation in New York City, bef