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The Boston University Questrom School of Business announced today that Peter Fox-Penner, renowned expert in energy policy, sustainability and business strategy, will join the School as Professor of the Practice on January 1, 2016. Dr. Fox-Penner will lead initiatives to expand the School’s education programs in the field of sustainability, including the creation of a University-wide Institute for Sustainable Energy.

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A visionary plan for a “Desert Development Corridor” in Egypt, researched and created by Boston University geologist Dr. Farouk El-Baz, has been adopted by the country’s interim government as its flagship program. According to El-Baz, the plan – which includes the construction, along 1,200 kilometers, of a new eight-lane superhighway, a railway, a water pipeline, and a power line – would open new land for urban development, commerce, agriculture, tourism and related jobs.

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Researchers from Boston University and NASA have recently discovered that parts of the northern hemisphere have become much greener and the growing season has increased over the past 21 years.

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The Los Angeles-based W.M. Keck Foundation recently awarded Boston University's astronomy department a $500,000 grant to develop Mimir, a powerful, state-of-the-art, wide-field imaging spectrometer and polarimeter.

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The Virginia-based Whitaker Foundation has recognized Boston University's worldwide leadership in biomedical engineering education and research with a $14M Leadership Award to enhance and expand its biomedical engineering programs.

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A study released by Join Together, a project of Boston University School of Public Health, finds that the 1989 Massachusetts' School Zone Anti-Drug law fails to drive drug dealers away from Massachusetts schools.

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Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health have shown that compounds found in green tea may offer some protection from development of breast cancer.

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For many people, vitamins are beneficial and essential, not potentially poisonous. However, in a "Letter to the Editor" of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, describe the dangers associated with ingestion of an over-the-counter vitamin D supplement.

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Physician antitrust exemption legislation recently proposed at both the state and federal levels could impact health care costs and considerably alter the relationship between physicians and managed health care plans. Researchers recently published their analysis of this significant legislative development in the July 3rd issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

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The Hon. Sila Calderon, the first woman governor of Puerto Rico, will deliver the address at Boston University's 128th commencement exercises Sunday, May 20, at 11 a.m. President Jon Westling announced the speaker during the annual senior brunch, held on campus last week.

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Boston University School of Medicine announces Anamaria Bulatovic, MD, MPH, FAAP, president, Doctors Without Borders, as this year's commencement speaker. The BUSM Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m. at the World Trade Center in Boston.

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Hospitals may be saving money because coronary artery bypass surgery patients are being discharged sooner, but surgeons from Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center have shown that costs are actually being shifted to other health care providers.

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"Egypt is the gift of the Nile," wrote Herodotus in 450 B.C. But according to research by Boston University Professor, the Greek historian got it only half right.

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Thirteen leading researchers have joined the Department of International Health at Boston University School of Public Health, bringing to the school a wealth of international public health knowledge and the well-respected Applied Research on Child Health Program.

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Campaigning season is coming to a close and many candidates are feeling the effects of incessant hand shaking with the American public. A Clinical Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at BU's Sargent College offers the following tips as we near the end of the campaign trail.

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Camille & Bill Anthony, co-authors of The Art of Napping at Work, have declared the Sunday marking the end of daylight savings time to be National Napping Day for Women.

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On Monday, October 23, Irwin Goldstein, MD, professor, department of urology, Boston University School of Medicine will hold a press conference to discuss the current status of female sexual function and dysfunction research and to provide an overview of the third international forum on female sexual function.

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Boston University School of Medicine is sponsoring the Second International Symposium on Virtual Colonoscopy, beginning October 16, 2000.

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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $1,151,700 to Boston University to establish an international science and medical journalism center to strengthen news coverage of science, medicine and public health.

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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $1,151,700 to Boston University to establish an international science and medical journalism center to strengthen news coverage of science, medicine and public health.