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New Wheelock Educational Policy Center Will Put Research in the Hands of Policymakers, Drive National Conversations
Research at BU’s new Wheelock Education Policy Center will focus on improving policies that have contributed to persistent inequities within the education system for students of color, students with disabilities, and English learners. Photo by Cydney Scott Education
Aim: improving educational outcomes for historically marginalized students
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Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development is taking another big step forward, one that expands the cross-discipline collaborations that began with the 2018 merger of Wheelock College and Boston University. The college recently launched the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC), an interdisciplinary hub for research that aspires to drive national conversations and policy decisions that impact educational outcome
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RYE BROOK, N.Y., March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A new survey of more than 6,500 U.S. blood cancer patients and survivors reveals that only half are very likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine while one in three is either unlikely or unsure about it. The nationwide survey was a collaboration between The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), Boston University Questrom School of Business and The Behaviouralist, a London-based research consultancy.
The results come despite the serious risks facing blood cancer patients. Some early
studies suggest around half of blood cancer patients hospitalized with COVID-19 will die from the disease.
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Azer Bestavros, recently named BU’s first associate provost for computing and data sciences, sat in a Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground conference room overlooking the Charles River last February and listened as antiracism scholar Ibram X. Kendi laid out his bold vision: bringing antiracist investigators together with data scientists to tackle racial inequities, he would establish Boston University as the nation’s leading academic institution for data-driven antiracist research. Kendi, who was visiting from American University, had been in talks with BU about joining the faculty but this was his first in-person meeting with Bestavros.
Bestavros, who had been charged with embedding computing and data science across the University in every discipline, from the humanities to engineering to medicine, was impressed. “I was struck by the scale of what he was envisioning and by his conviction that data is essential not only in exposing racial inequities