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Research News

Brink Bites: Finding Love Online and Preserving Black American Sign Language

November 27, 2024

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Kilachand Awards

2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

November 13, 2024

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Optical Technology

Using Light to Monitor Blood Pressure and Track Cancer Treatment Progress

November 7, 2024

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Reproductive Health

Women’s Health Is Chronically Understudied, but These Engineers Are Charging Forward

November 4, 2024

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Plant Lab

Studying Plant Genomics Can Bring Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering Breakthroughs

October 17, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: BU Research Beyond the Headlines

October 1, 2024

Professorship Awards

Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers

September 26, 2024

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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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Awards

New BU Postdoctoral Awards Celebrate Excellence in Mentorship and Research

September 24, 2024

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Soft Robots

Just How Safe Are Soft Robots?

September 18, 2024

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Self-Amplifying RNA

A New Type of RNA Could Revolutionize Vaccines and Cancer Treatments

September 9, 2024

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

Photo: Mark Grinstaff, a white man with glasses and 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.

Awards

ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards

July 25, 2024

ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards