Boston University

Natural Sciences

Tightly cropped photo of a young man vaping with an e-cigarette and vapor streaming out his mouth.

Medicine

Vaping Slows Wound Healing Just as Much as Smoking

October 19, 2018

a pile of multicolored condoms

Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

Masha Kamenetska, assistant professor of Physics at Boston University

Accolades

Masha Kamenetska

October 5, 2018

A diver reels in a line near a bleached colony of Boulder Star Coral at East Flower Garden Bank.

Marine Biology

Inside the Search for a Coral Killer

October 1, 2018

Sahar Sharifzadeh, assistant professor of engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Accolades

BU Prof Named One of Scientific American’s 11 Rising Stars of Science

September 28, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Whitney Manhart (MED'20) (left) a PhD student in Elke Muhlberger’s NEIDL lab, and lab manager Jennifer Pacheco are coauthors of a Cell Reports study about a tool that will help determine whether a new zoonotic virus, LLOV, can cause disease in humans. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Infectious Diseases

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

September 5, 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

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

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

July 5, 2018

John Ngo, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University

Biology

Turning Cells On and Off

July 2, 2018

Religion

Christianity Can Be Good for the Environment

June 14, 2018

A Sifaka lemur in a tree

Anthropology

Why Lemurs Smell Better than You

June 1, 2018

PhD candidate Evan Kristiansen (GRS’20). Kristiansen and his advisor, associate professor of biology Sean Mullen, study butterflies to understand the genetics of speciation. Photo by Cydney Scott

Biology

Seeking Clues to Natural Selection in Butterfly Wings

May 31, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

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

May 22, 2018

David Boas, neurophotonics and fNIRS pioneer, and director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Engineering

Lighting Up the Brain

May 11, 2018

Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME).

Engineering Biology

Upgrading the Immune System to Fight Cancer

April 27, 2018

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks at the Boston University School of Public Health symposium on climate change

Climate Change

SPH Hosts Climate Change Symposium

April 24, 2018

bulk silicon electronic-photonic chip designed by the MIT, UC Berkeley and Boston University team

Photonics

Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics

April 23, 2018

Researchers Illuminate the Path to a New Era of Microelectronics