In mid-January, 19 students and 2 program advisors completed the Indian Field Seminar, one of the many international experiences which provide students with additional engagement outside of the classroom. After completing preliminary work during the first semester in Boston, the group spent two weeks in India. Travels started in New Delhi, continued to Mumbai, and […]
“It felt like a PROFESSIONAL conference, not a student-run event.” Those words ringing in my ears from attendees convinced me that the chairs and leadership committee of the 1st Annual Boston University Health and Life Sciences Conference had succeeded in achieving the near-impossible: success which exceeded even our own expectations. It had taken more than […]
Post by: Lara Wasowski MS-MBA 2013 On the weekend of March 21-23, our school hosted the first Grand Business Challenge in Digital Health (formerly the Tech Strategy Case Competition). Sponsored this year by Merck IT, the GBC brought together 16 teams from around the world for a weekend of competition and collaboration. The event is […]
Post by:Catherine ShihMBA/MPH in Global Health Management, 2013 Last year a group of students from the School of Management and the School of Biomedical Engineering came together to form the Engineering & Management Commercialization Collaboration (EMCC). The EMCC offered students the opportunity to work collaboratively on a commercialization strategy for a medical device aimed for […]
Post By: Ivan Busulwa MBA/MPH, 2012 From Monday, March 26th through Saturday April 1st, six graduate students from Boston University thought about Sri Lanka, Canadian foreign aid, and Tamils, more than they ever had before. Meg Meyer (MBA/MPH’12), Catherine Shih (MBA/MPH’13), Sunil Nair (MD/MBA’13), Daniel Silva (MED’15), Darash Desai (ENG’14), and myself formed a team […]