Some football players are rewriting the record books. Others, the medical journals.

It’s pretty obvious. You get hit in the head, you get brain damage. But by looking at sports-related head injuries beyond the obvious, we’re also getting a better understanding of diseases like ALS and Alzheimer’s. It’s this kind of different perspective and approach that has made Boston University one of today’s great research institutions. And why thinking differently about our world begins with BU.