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Image of BU Earth and environment researchers Catherine Mahoney, and Amanda Vieillard at Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in Boston, Mass. The women crouch in the yellow grass and set up portable carbon sensors. The Boston City Skyline is seen behind them.

Blue Carbon

Empowering Citizen Scientists to Study and Protect Coastal Wetlands

March 3, 2022

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Mental Health

Summer Heat Can Drain Mental Health

March 1, 2022

Photo of activists holding cardboard cutouts of President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi protest outside of the International Monetary Fund headquarters during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.

International Relations

Why the World Monetary System Needs a New Set of Rules

February 28, 2022

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Bullying

Bullying Fell during the Pandemic: Could Changes to the School Day Protect More Kids from Bullies?

February 25, 2022

Photo of Selim Ünlü, a tan man wear a blue collared shirt and black jacket, holding a disc-shaped device in his cluttered mechanical engineering lab.

Accolades

BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future

February 16, 2022

Boston's city skyline showcasing the greenery and trees in the foreground

Forest Edges

City Trees and Soil Are Sucking More Carbon Out of the Atmosphere Than Previously Thought

February 16, 2022

Photo of a student walking past a large BU window on Commonwealth Avenue. Window features a large poster that reads "BU is Back. Let's keep it that way. Show your green"

COVID ON CAMPUS

BU to Dial Back Some COVID Testing, Masking, Guest Protocols

February 15, 2022

Boston, MA Mark Grinstaff, distinguished professor of translational research—as well as a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, materials science and engineering, and medicine—has been named a 2021 AAAS Honorary Fellow. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Accolades

Inventor Mark Grinstaff Named an AAAS Fellow

February 14, 2022

Photo of PhD student Ke Wu wearing a magnetic Metamaterial device. The hat is made of materials in red, yellow, and blue.

Metamaterials

This Bizarre Looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans

February 10, 2022

Vector illustration of a business person sitting at a desk in the middle of a clear, glass house. /the outside is filled with cartoon vector depictions of the coronavirus

Pandemic vs. Endemic

What Is the Difference between Pandemic and Endemic?

February 9, 2022

Illustration of a transparent torso with a red illustration of a person's lungs. Behind the torso is a pixelated light gray background.

Accolades

Ambitious Effort to Develop Lab-Grown Lungs Wins Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Funding

February 9, 2022

photo of a worried, white pregnant woman sitting at home with protective face mask on and looking through the window on the right.

COVID AND PREGNANCY

Placenta May Protect Unborn Babies from COVID-19 during Pregnancy

February 8, 2022

Image of 4 black and white pencil-style illustrations showcasing the various steps needed for ice-cutting: scraping, grooving, planing and ribbing, and sawing, calking and breaking off.

History

Tracing the History of New England’s Ice Trade

February 4, 2022

photo of Assistant professor Jessica Simes, a deeply tanned woman with curly dark brown hair and blue oval glasses, sits in her office and faces the camera. Her new book, Punishing Places, is seen on the bookshelf behind her.

Mass Incarceration

Sociologist Jessica Simes’ New Book Explores the Toll of Mass Incarceration and Its Racial Disparities

February 1, 2022

COVID ON CAMPUS

Boston University COVID-19 Report: February 1

January 31, 2022

Photo of a young businesswoman in a dark blue hijab and blue button-down shirt working on a desktop computer while wearing a face mask.

Pay Gap

Tolerance for Risk May Contribute to Male-Female Pay Gap

January 28, 2022

See intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter in this new view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced image was taken on April 1, 2018 at 2:32 a.m. PST (5:32 a.m. EST), as Juno performed its twelfth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 7,659 miles (12,326 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a northern latitude of 50.2 degrees. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21984 . - Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

NASA

Stunning Close-Up Images of Jupiter, Its Storms, and a Dolphin Cloud

January 27, 2022

Illustration by Hyewon Jung showing a young girl holding a teddy bear in her right hand and a balloon in her left. She is surrounded by branching synapses. The color of the lines is rainbow on a black background.

ART & SCIENCE

Communicating Science through Art

January 26, 2022

Vector illustration of a Sad girl sitting on the floor with a cloud bubble displaying tangled thoughts.

COVID Winter Blues

How to Overcome the Winter Blues amid COVID Uncertainty

January 25, 2022

Detail photo of a tray of nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing in containers with red caps. The photo is tinted yellow and teal.

COVID ON CAMPUS

Boston University COVID-19 Report: January 25

January 24, 2022

Boston University COVID-19 Report: January 25

BU Weekly COVID-19 Report

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