Photo: Environmentalists help bring an end to further construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, which contributes to the use of fossil fuels linked to pollution, environmental degradation and global warming. They protest with plastic jugs on their heads and a paper pipe which reads STOP ALL PIPELINES.

How High-Level Lawsuits Are Disrupting Climate Change Policies

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Photo: Michele Courton Brown (CAS’83), a Black woman with short hair, red glasses, wearing a persimmon color dress, smiles for the camera. Brown is the chair of YouthBuild USA board of directors poses for a photo on May 22, 2024. She’s the first woman and the first Black woman to lead the body.
Alumni

Opening Doors: Michele Courton Brown (CAS’83)

Photo: A picture of a girl wearing a gray sweater with white stars and a cardboard sculpture around her neck. The sculpture sits almost like a scarf and features 3D elements. There is a video play button over the image
Sculpture

CFA Sculpture Class: Wearable Cardboard Sculptures

Photo: Keith Brown, an ENG associate professor of mechanical engineering, stands with autonomous researching robot, MAMA BEAR, in his lab at BU. Structures like these inform the robot’s search for efficiency, and contribute to the larger mission of autonomous research.
Engineering

3D Printing Robot Uses AI Machine Learning for US Army Research