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New England Female Medical College. The City of Boston celebrated Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day Monday to honor the first Black female physician in the U.S. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston honors Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day — first Black woman in the US to receive medical degree

Anne Jonas February 9, 2021
Crumpler, an alumna of BUSM, became the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1864. She went on to publish the first medical book written by a Black physician in the country.
Director of the Boston University Precision Diagnostics Center Catherine Klapperich demonstrates how to self-administer a nasal swab test for COVID-19 in a video posted on TikTok. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Frequent COVID-19 testing to occur through Fall

Julia Ermi July 29, 2020
All students learning in person at BU this Fall will be tested for COVID-19 twice a week and will be required to adhere to the new Massachusetts travel guidance, the University announced Monday in an email to the BU community.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University began researching the novel coronavirus in mid-March in order to develop a vaccine and analyze how the virus is spread. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU labs, researchers and students fight COVID-19

Ellie Yeo April 29, 2020
The BU research community have committed themselves to combating the coronavirus since the campus shutdown announced on March 17. Medical students, lab technicians and professors have joined an international movement of private institutions dedicating their resources and expertise to pandemic response.
East to West (COVID-19 Update #4): April 3, 2020

East to West (COVID-19 Update #4): April 3, 2020

Justin Tang April 3, 2020

This episode is also available on SoundCloud. Join us for East to West’s continuing special coronavirus coverage. This week, we’ll discuss the new credit/no-credit designation being implemented...

The Boston University School of Medicine is graduating students a month early so they can begin working in hospitals as early as possible to combat the spread of the coronavirus. BRIAN SONG/ DFP FILE

BUSM to graduate students early in response to COVID-19

Samantha Kizner March 31, 2020
BUSM made the decision March 25 that they would be graduating the class of 2020 a month early, on April 17, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Massachusetts’ other three medical schools — Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and University of Massachusetts Medical School — will also be graduating students early.
Associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine Weining Lu was named BU Innovator of the Year for his research on chronic kidney disease. COURTESY OF WEINING LU

School of Medicine professor named BU Innovator of the Year

Nyah Jordan November 19, 2019
Weining Lu, an associate professor in the BUSM, was named BU’s Innovator of the Year Thursday for his work developing a new medicine for chronic kidney disease.
David Blumenthal speaks at the Hiebert Lounge in the Instructional Building on the Boston University Medical Campus Friday afternoon. PHOTO BY JENNA MANTO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Commonwealth Fund president discusses managing healthcare

Vivian Situ December 26, 2017

Former Harvard Medical School professor of medicine David Blumenthal spoke about the healthcare challenges faced by high-cost and high-need medical patients on Friday at the Boston University School...

Boston University trustee and School of Management Class of 1972 alumnus Richard Shipley donates $10.5 million to the School of Medicine to create a prostate cancer research center on the BU Medical Campus. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU trustee Richard Shipley establishes cancer research center, explores “humane” treatment

Anna Whitelaw April 24, 2016

Boston University trustee Richard Shipley, a School of Management Class of 1972 graduate, donated $10.5 million to the BU School of Medicine for the creation of the Shipley Prostate Cancer Research...

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker met with Massachusetts’ medical school deans to address opioids Wednesday. PHOTO BY MINA CORPUZ/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Medical Society, medical school deans work together against opioids

Samantha J. Gross September 3, 2015

  Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker met with leadership from the Massachusetts Medical Society and deans from the four Greater Boston-area medical schools Wednesday to talk about opportunities to...

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