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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, BSL-4 laboratories study “dangerous/exotic agents which pose high risk of life-threatening disease, aerosol-transmitted lab infections; or related agents with unknown risk of transmission.” In addition to the BU lab, six known BSL-4 laboratories currently exist in the United States, with another in the Rocky Mountains slated to open this year...
...addition to concerns about the facility itself, Boston City Councillor Charles H. “Chuck” Turner ’62 said at the meeting that he lacked confidence in BU’s safety procedures. Turner referred to a 2004 incident in which three BU researchers fell ill after unknowingly handling a contaminated strain of the bacteria tularemia...
However, according to the Boston Globe, BU officials did not report the illnesses to the Boston Public Health Commission until 28 days after DNA analyses revealed the strains under study had been contaminated. The Globe also revealed that BU failed to update its proposal for a BSL-4 lab, which claimed that BU labs had experienced no “laboratory-acquired infections” in more than 10 years, after the infections had been discovered...
...last six. Just a month earlier, the Eagles dropped a double-overtime thriller to then-No. 6 Ohio State in an 80-72 loss.Improbable it was—both that Harvard got to play the game, and that the Crimson won it. Though Harvard frequently squares off against BU and Northeastern, the Crimson had not faced BC since 2002, when the Eagles scorched Harvard 88-49. Before that game, however, Delaney-Smith’s Crimson squad had claimed three consecutive wins over the Eagles, those coming in 1987, 1994 and 1995. BC, formerly a member of the Big East...
...BU passed on Hyman, and he withdrew his name from the University of Chicago race due in part to family considerations, the source says. Now, with the disclosure that his name is on the list of candidates for Harvard’s own presidency released to the Board of Overseers earlier this month, Hyman has found himself in the thick of yet another presidential search...