Boston University

Natural Sciences

Regenerative Medicine

Stem Cells to Thyroid Cells

November 6, 2015

Anurag Singh, a MED assistant professor, studies NRAS in melanoma with a three-year grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance

Cancer

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries

November 2, 2015

Mark 28 Hydrogen Bombs recovered from Palomares, Spain. Photo by Kelly Michals

Earth & Environment

The Bombs of Palomares

October 26, 2015

In the new sci fi blockbuster The Martian, Matt Damon plays botanist Mark Watney, who gets stranded on Mars and survives through scientific ingenuity and derring-do. Photo by Aidan Monaghan

Astronomy

The Martian Nails the Science (Mostly)

October 22, 2015

Amyloid-beta protein

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Research on Alzheimer’s

October 19, 2015

Plamen Ivanov with team members of the Boston University Network Physiology Lab

Physics

Mapping the Body’s Internet

October 19, 2015

Prof. Christopher Chen (BME). Photo by Chitose Suzuki

Biomedical Engineering

New Material for Studying Cell Mechanics May Revise Thinking on Disease

October 15, 2015

David Center, Director, Boston University Clinical & Translational Science Institute

Engineering Biology

BU Awarded $23.4 Million NIH Grant

October 7, 2015

Sugarcane Workers

Environment & Ecology

Potential Clue to Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic in Central America

September 28, 2015

Students in the BU Marine Program snorkel in Calabash Channel and Creek, Belize

Marine Biology

BU Students Discover Corals in Unlikely Place

September 25, 2015

Boston Groundwater Trust

Earth & Environment

Science under Our Feet

September 23, 2015

red eyed tree frog tadpole embryos

Biology

Escape Hatch

September 21, 2015

Peter Paul Professorships 2015

Biology

Four Junior Faculty Awarded Peter Paul Professorships

September 17, 2015

Narayanan Bobby Kasthuri, assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine

Neuroscience

A New Way to Study the Brain

September 15, 2015

Plamen Ivanov

Physics

Physicist Plamen Ivanov Wins $1 Million Keck Foundation Award

September 14, 2015

Linda Hyman, Associate Provost Graduate Med

Accolades

MED’s Linda Hyman Goes to Washington

August 24, 2015

Neuroscientists Samantha Michalka of Boston University Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology and David Somers of Boston University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Neuroscience

Seeing Space and Hearing Time

August 24, 2015

High school student Lauren Strong talks to Boston University mechanical engineering professor Helen Fawcett while participating in a new program to promote diversity in the STEM fields

STEM

Photonics Center Programs Promote Diversity in STEM Fields

August 7, 2015

Steve Grossberg, Boston University Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, in his home office

Neuroscience

Steve Grossberg’s Long Walk Toward the Light

August 6, 2015

Alexander Sergienko, Boston University College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering

Engineering

Quantum Code Master

July 30, 2015

Quantum Code Master