July 10, 2009 at 12:18 pm
In a recent post on Politico.com’s “The Arena” blog, political expert Thomas Whalen, a professor of social sciences in the College of General Studies, writes “the admission erodes the public’s already waning confidence in our intelligence community.” Whalen can be reached at tjw64@bu.edu
Obese children hospitalized for such related conditions as asthma, diabetes, gallbladder disease, pneumonia and mental disorders soared dramatically, both in patient numbers and total costs. The published study prompted Caroline Apovian, MD, Boston Medical Center director of the Obesity Research Center, to call for a national health plan effort “to stave off a curtailed healthy future […]
Leaders at the Group of Eight summit meeting failed to make a breakthrough to cut in half the global production of greenhouse gases by 2050 as India and China claimed an unfair burden when their economies are growing rapidly. But Adil Najam, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a BU professor of international relations, […]
A congressional hearing was held yesterday to discuss quality regulations of both tap and bottled water here in the U.S. Findings of two recent studies stated that bottled water can often come from unknown sources and questions whether bottled water is trulysafer than tap. Nutrition professor Joan Salge Blake addressed this topic in her most […]
With a filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, Massachusetts becomes the first state to challenge the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman. School of Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on family law and gay rights, can discuss the legal […]
The School of Ed’s hippest student group SEDGreen is premiering its brand new web magazine Stomata which features information on the group’s activities, highlights current green initiatives taking place at BU and in the City of Boston, and plans to provide relivant information on ecological sustainability. For more information on SEDGreen and Stomata, please contact […]
In an ongoing fight over secret offshore accounts, the Swiss government vows to do what it must to keep the U.S. authorities from getting the names of 52,000 American clients of the Swiss bank UBS. School of Law Professor Daniel Berman, director of the Graduate Tax Program and former Treasury Department official, can discuss the situation. […]
As President Obama joins the leaders of the world’s top eight economies at the G-8 summit in Italy, the success of this gathering is already being debated. The world economy and climate change are top agenda items the leaders will tackle. Available to dicuss what kind of outcome we can expect from the G-8 is Kevin P. Gallagher, professor of […]
Unless an angel investor steps forward, the Bay State Banner – Boston’s only newspaper exclusively covering the African-American community since 1965 – will fold after tomorrow’s edition. College of Communication Professor Lou Ureneck, the Journalism Department chair and authority on the business of newspapers, says the whole industry is in trouble and ethnic-niche papers are […]
In a shift from two decades of hands-off market regulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering new restrictions on purely financial investors speculating on oil, natural gas and other energy products. Energy risk-management expert Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Management, can discuss how this might affect the energy markets. […]
