Twitter account of the @BU_Tweets Office of the Provost. We highlight Boston University news, achievements, faculty excellence, and student successes.
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6 Feb 2025
Rising researchers w/ life-changing ideas set the future for great institutions. HUGE congrats to @BUWheelock's @lizbeth_bettini, @BU_ece's Michelle Sander, @BUMedicine's @jasonvassy & @BU_Biology's @zebabw, this year's @BU_Tweets PECASE award winners!
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20 Nov 2024
Special thanks to our outstanding @IGS_BU team & our partners w/ @MassGovernor, @MassLtGov, & @UMassLowell for a successful rollout this wk of the CELT program, where @BU_Tweets will play an active role helping accelerate the clean energy transition for communities across MA! 🌎
20 Nov 2024
Advancing an equitable #CleanEnergy transition, empowering #communities, and training the next generation of #climate leaders w/ CELT, a $5.7mil project w/@MassGovernor & @UMassLowell. @BUProvost & @MassLtGov & other leaders unveiled CELT this week:
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15 Nov 2024
A HUGE thank you to @BUQuestrom's @JimRebitzer for an outstanding University Lecture earlier this week on innovation & affordability in healthcare! Events like these show why @BU_Tweets continues to be a research & thought leader on the most pressing issues facing society. 🎓🌠⚕️
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4 Nov 2024
Join us in congratulating & welcoming @BU_Biology's Sean Mullen, @BU_CAS assoc. dean of the faculty for natural sciences & nationally respected evolutionary biology scholar, as @BU_Tweets's next assoc. provost for graduate affairs, starting Jan 1! 👏
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22 Oct 2024
Excited to announce our 2024 @BU_Tweets University Lecturer is @JimRebitzer, Peter & Deborah Wexler Professor of Management at @BUQuestrom! Join us Tues, 11/12 @TsaiCenterBU to hear from this renowned healthcare economist & be part of this special event! ➡️bu.edu/provost/awards-public…
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24 Sep 2024
Huge 👏 to our '24-25 @BU_Tweets Career Development Profs: @BU_CDS's Brian Cleary, @BU_ece's @TianYuWang2020, @BU_RomStudies's @CatalinaRod2, @BUreligion's @daigengna & @BUChemistry's @JDerosaChem, all of whom bring amazing promise to their fields! 🌠🎓
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3 Sep 2024
In her welcome message to the community, Provost Gloria Waters shares what makes @BU_Tweets "one of the largest great urban educational centers in the country and the world" and her excitement at helping lead the next chapter in its rich history. 🌠
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29 Jul 2024
Please join us in welcoming @pennybishop, a nationally respected middle & secondary education scholar, to @BU_Tweets as the next dean of @BUWheelock! Dr. Bishop is a gifted teacher, leader & community builder and we're thrilled to have her join us!
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26 Jul 2024
Great research discoveries that touch society come through talent, vision, and willingness to take risks. A huge shout out to @BUCollegeofENG's @Grinstaff and his team on their @NSF Trailblazer Award for their impressive work on RNA vaccine technology!👏
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27 Jun 2024
Huge shout out to the 32 incredibly talented @BU_Tweets faculty across our Charles River Campus who've been promoted to associate professor! All emerging as leaders in their fields; all contributing to the continued growth & renewal of our institution.👏
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Boston University Provost retweeted
27 Jun 2024
Congratulations to the 6️⃣ @BU_Tweets researchers awarded @NSF CAREER grants for their groundbreaking work in engineering, AI, molecular biology, & beyond. Their commitment to advancing science and cultivating future leaders sets a remarkable standard.
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ALT Ana Fiszbein (clockwise from top left), Michael Albro, Jonathan Huggins, Rabia Yazicigil, Andrew Sabelhaus, and Wenchao Li were awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards this year to advance their research in engineering, mathematics, and molecular biology. Photos by Cydney Scott, Jackie Ricciardi, Dana J. Quigley, and courtesy of Sabelhaus.
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16 May 2024
Excellent teaching is @ the heart of @BU_Tweets' mission. Congratulations to @BUWorldLangLit's Yuri Corrigan, @HistoryBU's Alexis Peri & @BUSPH's Veronika Wirtz, true all-star educators, on winning the 2024 Metcalf Awards, our highest teaching honors! 👏➡️bu.edu/articles/2024/winners…
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Boston University Provost retweeted
14 May 2024
A New Model for University-Industry Partnerships
To Ensure Curricula Evolve as Technologies Do
Kenneth R. Lutchen interim Provost, previously Dean of ENG
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6 May 2024
HUGE congrats to @BU_ece's Bobak Nazer & @BUAnthropology's Fallou Ngom, winners of the 2024 Gitner & Provost's Scholar-Teacher of the Year awards, and 125 @BU_Tweets faculty colleagues who've garnered major national & international honors this year!👏🎓
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19 Apr 2024
Great faculty make great universities, helping advance society & shape the future workforce through their research, scholarship, teaching & example. Join us in congratulating 22 talented @BU_Tweets colleagues on their promotions to full professor!👏🎓🌠
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12 Apr 2024
As Generative AI redefines the way we learn & work, we need to innovate as an institution & meet the moment. Special thanks to the @BU_Tweets AI Task Force for an outstanding report & recommendations for moving forward w/ this revolutionary technology!
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5 Mar 2024
BIG day for @BU_Tweets & the MA high-tech workforce w/ the launch of #RASTIC, an incredible new facility & pipeline of talent & robotic innovation housed within @BUCollegeofENG! Special thx to @MassEOED Sec. Yvonne Hao & @Mass_Tech for their partnership & support! 🤖🐾🌠
ALT BU Interim Provost Kenneth Lutchen and MA Secretary of Economic Development Yvonne Hao commence the robotic ribbon cutting for RASTIC on the BU campus. Photo courtesy of Mike Spencer Photography
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1 Mar 2024
We at @BU_Tweets are deeply committed to advancing women’s empowerment & fostering leadership around the 🌎. Thrilled to join @BUPardeeSchool's summit this week at @StateDept honoring their work on the Alliance for Afghan Women's Economic Resilience.
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20 Feb 2024
The future of great institutions is set by rising researchers who advance their fields & the human condition. Huge congrats to @AstronomyatBU's @dcfylln, @BostonU_BME's @hadi_nia, & @BU_Biology's @meg_younger,@BU_Tweets' latest @SloanFoundation Fellows! ➡️sloan.org/fellowships/2024-F…
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Boston University Provost retweeted
18 Jan 2024
In Harvard Business Review, Ken Lutchen, interim BU provost and former ENG dean, shares the secrets of a successful industry-academia partnership @HarvardBiz @BUProvost
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