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Social Work

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Cancer Series

How to Help Someone After a Cancer Diagnosis

November 14, 2025

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Mental Health

BU Researcher Teams Up with Boston’s Fathers’ UpLift to Support Black Men’s Mental Health

March 28, 2025

Social Work

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

March 20, 2025

Research News

Brink Bites: BMI Objections, Studying UFOs, and Alcohol’s Impact on College Students

January 24, 2025

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

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Youth Anxiety

Why Are Kids Struggling with Anxiety More than Ever?

September 5, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

How to Save for Retirement—and Why Most of Us Haven’t (or Can’t) Save Enough

February 21, 2024

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Aging Reimagined

The Ingredients of Unequal Aging: Housing, Income, and Health

February 21, 2024

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Opioid Crisis

A Notorious Boston Intersection, Mass and Cass, Faces an Opioid Overdose Crisis. BU Researchers Are Turning to Overdose Survivors for Answers

August 3, 2023

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Suicide

BU Researchers Identify Brain Marker Indicating Future Suicide Risk

May 15, 2023

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Mental Health

How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?

March 24, 2023

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COVID-19

POV: Black Youth and Families Are Being Left Behind as We Return to Normal: A Call for Action

January 6, 2023

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Maternal Health

Moving toward More Empathetic Maternal Mental Health Care

November 29, 2022

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Veterans

Why Veterans Remain at Greater Risk of Homelessness

November 9, 2022

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COVID Winter Blues

How to Overcome the Winter Blues amid COVID Uncertainty

January 25, 2022

Social Sciences

How Technology Has Transformed Social and Behavioral Research

December 6, 2021

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Transgender Health

How Does Testosterone Therapy Change the Voices of Transgender Men?

November 15, 2021

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Environmental Justice

This Squad of Researchers Is a Real-Life Justice League

October 27, 2021

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Mental Health

Depression Rates in US Tripled When the Pandemic First Hit—Now, They’re Even Worse

October 7, 2021

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Mental Health

In 20 Years since September 11, Military Suicides Have Risen Sharply. Why?

September 10, 2021

In 20 Years since September 11, Military Suicides Have Risen Sharply. Why?