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Research News

Brink Bites: Tracking Endangered Frogs, Why Concentration Wanders, Studying Kids’ Beliefs

May 6, 2025

Social Work

BU School of Social Work Makes a “Transformative” Hire for Childhood Equity

March 20, 2025

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Muscular dystrophy

Born with Muscular Dystrophy, Justin Moy Now Seeks to Defeat It

February 24, 2025

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Alzheimer’s

New AI Program from BU Researchers Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s Disease

June 25, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence

Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?

May 23, 2024

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Awards

Three BU Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows

April 18, 2024

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Air Quality

Can Cleaner Classroom Air Help Kids Do Better at School?

March 7, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Philadelphia Eagles' C.J. Gardner-Johnson catches a pass during practice at the NFL football team's training facility, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, in Philadelphia. A Black man wearing a dark green and white Eagles' football uniform and helmet catches a football in his hands, Photo: A flatlay of the iLet Bionic Pancreas, a bionic pancreas approved at the FDA. The device is a black box with a wire attached with two additional attachments, Photo: An unidentified person standing in a generic store pharmacy holds over the counter medicine in the aisle as they try to make a decision, and Photo: A white hands holds up a petri dish holding the yeast candida auris in a laboratory. a Petri dish with speckles of white dots/fungi is shown.

2023 IN REVIEW

What Were BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories in 2023?

December 11, 2023

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Education

How Dickens and Other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—with Lasting Impacts

December 5, 2023

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Kilachand Awards

Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects

October 3, 2023

Social Media

Is Meta’s Threads Safe? Social Media Data Privacy Explained

July 6, 2023

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AI and Hypertension

New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension

June 6, 2023

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Nutrition

Secrets of the Microbiome

May 26, 2023

Ngozi Okidegbe , associate professor of law and an assistant professor of computing and data sciences, poses for a photo on January 10, 2023. She is the first person at BU to hold such a joint position. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

AI & Law

Algorithms Were Supposed to Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice—Do They?

February 23, 2023

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Artificial Intelligence

Can We Trust ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence to Do Humans’ Work?

February 8, 2023

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Christianity

What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

February 2, 2023

Catherine Espaillat, Vivek Goyal, and Malika Jeffries-EL were all honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photos by Cydney Scott

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

January 31, 2023

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

NSF CAREER Awards

BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits

December 13, 2022

BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits