Boston University

Engineering & Computing

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Antiracism

Striking Out Racist Terminology in Engineering

July 16, 2020

Deepfakes

Protective Filter Defends Images and Video against Deepfake Manipulation

July 1, 2020

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Communicating COVID-19

Comparing How Media around the World Frames Coronavirus News

June 25, 2020

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Neuroscience

How a Memory Game Could Help Us Understand Brain Injury

June 23, 2020

CAREER PLANNING

Postdoc Academy Launches Remote Professional Development Course

June 19, 2020

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Coronavirus

Tiny, Decoy “Sponges” Attract Coronavirus Away from Lung Cells

June 18, 2020

Biomedical engineers in BU professor Allyson Sgro’s lab participated in a workshop to develop individualized action plans and then joined up in person with other members of the community. Together, they met up with a #ShutDownSTEM/Black Lives Matter march walking from Roxbury’s Nubian Square to Boston City Hall.

STEM ON STRIKE

BU Researchers #ShutDownSTEM to Combat Racism

June 12, 2020

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Network Statistics

Data Science Is Helping to Explain Epileptic Seizures

June 11, 2020

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Astrophysics

Could the Distribution of Galaxies Reveal the Universe’s Invisible Web of Dark Matter?

June 4, 2020

Using photolysis—a process by which molecules are broken down by light—BU engineers found they could temporarily weaken MRSA’s defenses enough to make it vulnerable again to several conventional antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance

May 21, 2020

In this May 8, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Katie Hammond, left, works with another nurse on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center , in Seattle. The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday, May 16, 2020. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288.

Translation

Translational Research Hub at BU Gets $38.3 Million Renewal from NIH

May 21, 2020

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Distancing During Coronavirus

Google Data Reveals Which Policies Best Promote Physical Distancing

May 19, 2020

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Synthetic Biology

Mo Khalil Awarded Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship

May 14, 2020

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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Alzheimer’s and AI

Deep Learning Algorithm Outperforms Experts in Making Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

May 4, 2020

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Coronavirus

How One Infectious Disease Expert Researches Coronavirus While Treating Patients Who Have It

April 28, 2020

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Problem Solvers

BU Engineers Are Taking on the Coronavirus Pandemic

April 17, 2020

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Contact Tracing

Contact Tracing App Warns of COVID-19 Exposure while Protecting Privacy

April 15, 2020

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Biosensing

Mining Bacteria Parts to Build Around-the-Clock Biosensors

March 31, 2020

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Memory

It’s True, Scent Really Does Have Power over Memory

March 16, 2020

It’s True, Scent Really Does Have Power over Memory