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Chemistry

A sketch of a respiratory isolation box

Problem Solvers

BU Engineers Are Taking on the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 17, 2020

A photo of Wiley Hundertmark (CAS’20) with his research equipment

Sustainable Landscaping

Making Green Space Even Greener at BU

March 18, 2020

Portrait of Ksenia Bravaya

Chemistry

Ksenia Bravaya Awarded 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 12, 2020

Detail photo of a clear sustainable adhesive substance dripping onto a fingewr

Chemistry

Sustainable Adhesives of the Future Won’t Stick Around

December 17, 2019

Members of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, make their way through concertina wire during a live fire demonstration during Operation Desert Shield.

Veterans

At BU and Beyond, Many Gulf War Veterans Still Suffer from Toxic Wounds

November 8, 2019

View from behind the International Space Station with the planet Earth on the horizon.

Chemistry

Out-of-This-World Chemistry

October 23, 2019

Frozen Shoulder concept photo showing a wooden marionette with limp arm.

Biomedical Engineering

A Surprising Step Toward Melting Away “Frozen Shoulder”

June 3, 2019

Vinod Sarin

Accolades

Vinod Sarin Elected to National Academy of Inventors

January 16, 2019

Robert Davey, infectious diseases researcher at the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), poses for a portrait in front of hazmat suits like the ones he wears while conducting Biosafety Level 4 research in the NEIDL laboratory.

Ebola

Old Drug, New Tricks

November 19, 2018

a pile of multicolored condoms

Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

Malika Jeffries-EL researches “organic semiconductors,” the processing and electronic properties of which make them useful in technologies from LEDs to solar cells. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Chemistry

CAS/ENG Scholar Earns Prestigious Honor

August 8, 2018

sunrise in the woods

Earth & Environment

Four Things to Know about Fungi “Climate Warriors”

August 3, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

Dr. Kathy Morgan, a professor at Sargent College and Dr. Tyone Porter, pose for a photo

Engineering

Hearts, Minds, and Microbubbles

March 6, 2018

Bacterial colonies grown from Kombucha in a petri dish to be used for probiotics research

Biology

Putting Probiotic Supplements to the Test

January 16, 2018

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907.

Climate Change

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

December 14, 2017

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012.

Geosciences

Winds of Change

December 11, 2017

BU researchers Rahm Gummuluru and Bjoern Reinhard receive $2.7 million from NIH-NIAID

Medicine

Fighting HIV through a Better Delivery Method of Anti-retrovirals

December 7, 2017

Fighting HIV through a Better Delivery Method of Anti-retrovirals