Professor Templer Awarded 3-Year NSF Grant
Professor Pam Templer is PI on a newly awarded NSF NRT training grant to Boston University. “Boston UniverCity: Partnering Graduate Students and Cities to Tackle Urban Environmental Challenges” is a new $3 million five-year program that will train students from the interdisciplinary PhD program in Biogeoscience (students from Biology, Earth & Environment, Archaeology) and the […]
Professor Finzi Collaborating on DOE-Funded Center
Professor Adrien Finzi is participating in a large collaborative DOE-supported center grant. This new $104M center is designed to lay the scientific groundwork for a new bio-based economy that promises to yield a range of important new products and fuels derived directly from nonfood biomass. The University of Illinois is the lead institution with over […]
Professor Primack in the News
Professor Richard Primack has been featured prominently in several recent articles, with topics ranging from Henry David Thoreau’s contributions to science, to the use of drones in ecological research, to the importance of work-life balance in academia.
Gallinat and Primack Article Wins EXCEL Award
PhD candidate Amanda Gallinat and Professor Richard Primack’s article titled Spring Budburst in a Changing Climate, published in American Scientist’s March/April 2016 volume, won an a Gold EXCEL Award. Congratulations to Gallinat and Professor Primack!
Professor Celenza Appointed Director of UROP
BU Biology Professor John Celenza has been appointed as the Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at Boston University. UROP was started in 1997, and since it began, it has connected more than 4,000 BU undergraduates to a range of extraordinary research experiences across the natural sciences, medicine, the arts, humanities, and social […]
Professor Templer Awarded USDA Grant
Congratulations to Professor Pam Templer and Professor Lucy Hutyra on their USDA NIFA grant! This grant lasts for three years, and is titled “Coupled Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling under Changing Land Cover and Air Quality: Improving Regional Estimates of Carbon Dynamics for the Northeastern U.S.”
First UN Oceans Conference Solicits Over 1300 Global Commitments
This past week, timed to coincide with World Oceans Day, the UN hosted its first Ocean Conference to generate commitments and support for UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #14 – “to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development”. The conference, which was co-hosted by Fiji and Sweden, “aims to […]
Tiputini Biodiversity Station Publishes Research Collection
Professor Kelly Swing, the director of BU’s Ecuador Tropical Ecology Program, has co-authored a new Spanish language text. This compilation covers research that has been carried out at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (facilities that would not have existed without the dedicated interventions of Tom Kunz) in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve of Amazonian Ecuador over the […]
Professor Naya to serve on NIH Study Section
BU Biology Associate Professor Francisco Naya has been invited to serve as a permanent member on the Cardiovascular Differentiation and Development (CDD) study section at the NIH. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, […]
Professor Jerry Chen Awarded Whitehall Foundation Grant
BU Biology Assistant Professor Jerry Chen has been awarded the Whitehall Foundation Grant. The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved […]