In the business world, women receive a reported 7 percent of venture funds for their startups, according to a Fundera statistic, even as more are pursuing entrepreneurial success in the United States.
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COVID-19 has overwhelmingly affected families of color at disproportionately higher rates. How will these divisions in racial equality change politics this November?
Former U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano joined Boston University’s Initiative on Cities Monday as a Senior Urban Leadership Fellow, where he will assist the IOC with programs and lead a speaker series on...
On Friday, the Initiative on Cities partnered with the Department of Environmental Health and the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future to host a talk entitled “Air Quality Data to Action: Case Studies and Strategies from New York City and C40 Cities.”
On this week’s episode of East to West, we talked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s visit to campus, students voting in the upcoming elections and a BU-led study about mayors and discrimination.
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The Boston University Initiative on Cities hosted a summit Monday to address ways that various technologies, policies and low-cost design interventions could improve transportation in Boston.
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Arts experts from Boston University joined Rebecca Ostriker from The Boston Globe to speak on a panel Tuesday about urban culture and development for the Initiative on Cities’ Urban Seminar Series...
With a critical public eye on police departments following the summer’s occurrences of police-civilian violence in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, New York, Boston University’s Initiative on...
Launching off a two-day conference about rising sea levels, several city leaders addressed concerns about the future of coastal cities at a conference Thursday night co-hosted by Boston University’s...
