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Center for the Humanities panel on Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis

Addiction

Changing the Narrative on Opioids

October 15, 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

In the Classroom Asian Student Raises Hand and Asks Lecturer a Question. Multi Ethnic Group of Modern Bright Students at the College.

Healthcare

Racial Disparities in Nationwide Mental Health Services for College Students

September 28, 2018

DNA sequence in blu color

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Findings May Link Genes to Alzheimer’s

September 28, 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

Neurotechnology

NSF Grant Will Advance Study of the Cocktail Party Effect

September 28, 2018

A child watches as students get on a yellow school bus

Psychology

BU Spearheads Largest-Ever Study of Child Anxiety

September 25, 2018

Allyson Sgro will use her grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 10 Big Ideas program to study how cells’ communications enable them to coordinate their behavior.

Engineering Biology

Sgro Lands NSF 10 Big Ideas Grant

September 24, 2018

Fallou Ngom, director of the African Studies Center

Education

African Studies Center Expands Curriculum

September 24, 2018

Emily Ryan and a graduate students look intently at a computer screen

Mechanical Engineering

Searching for a Better Battery

September 24, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Medicine

Machine Learning May Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes

September 10, 2018

Accolades

Kevin Gallagher Joins UN’s Committee for Development Policy

September 5, 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

illustration of a college graduate staring at his shadow which is in the shape of a dollar bill

Education

It’s Time to Tell Students What They Need to Know

August 30, 2018

black woman drinking wine

Epidemiology

Black Women’s Lupus Study

August 30, 2018

Image of the painting HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic by John Wilson Carmichael

Humanities

A Fascination with Disaster

August 15, 2018

Researchers at Harvard and Boston University have created a flexible, robotic soft spider that could work inside human bodies.

Engineering

Soft, Spidery Robots that Go Inside Our Bodies

August 9, 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

CAS/ENG Scholar Earns Prestigious Honor