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Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are pressuring Boston University to provide more information on research that involved creating a new strain of the COVID-19 virus, combining the original strain from 2020 with the omicron variant, amid fears that the project wasn t vetted and posed a risk of unleashing a more dangerous virus.
Antoinette “Tonie” Leatherberry (ENG’85) will chair the search committee tasked with selecting the next president of Boston University. Robert A. Brown announced on September 7 that after 17 years as president, he would retire at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year.
Robert A. Brown, Boston University’s 10th president, announced on Wednesday that he will step down in July 2023. University trustees say they will outline the search process for Brown’s successor in the coming days.