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Innovation

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Equal Pay

New Wage Gap Calculator Aims to Help Close Earnings Gap

April 19, 2022

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Space Physics

NASA Gives Boost to BU-led Effort to Model Solar System’s Protective Bubble

April 14, 2022

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Awards & Accolades

BU Sloan Fellowship Winner Mark Bun on Data Privacy, Embracing Failure, Baking Cakes

April 6, 2022

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Blue Carbon

Empowering Citizen Scientists to Study and Protect Coastal Wetlands

March 3, 2022

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Accolades

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

February 16, 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

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Metamaterials

This Bizarre Looking Helmet Can Create Better Brain Scans

February 10, 2022

Inventing

Engineering Scholar Greg Blonder Elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 14, 2021

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Innovation

Five Studies Pushing the Limits of Science

November 17, 2021

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STEM OUTREACH

Jump-starting Biotechnology Careers for Boston High School Students

November 4, 2021

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Breast Cancer

For Black Women, New Online Prediction Tool Could Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths

October 26, 2021

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Innovation

BU Entrepreneurs Are Moving Two New Medical Devices Closer to Market

October 13, 2021

Deepwater Discoveries

There’s More to the Story behind Rare Glass Octopus Footage

July 21, 2021

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Opinion

From the Dalkon Shield to Britney Spears’ IUD: Why Diverse Teams Need to Be Involved in Contraceptive Design

July 1, 2021

NSF CAREER Awards

5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design

June 30, 2021

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Neuroscience

How Sleep Is Impacted by Brain Circuitry and Aging

June 16, 2021

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Sustainable Tech

Could Technology Inspired by Beetles and Underground Fungi Solve the Water Scarcity Problem in Morocco’s Rural Villages?

June 14, 2021

In this November 2019 photo, Charles Flagg, who has Alzheimer's disease, sits for an infusion while participating in a study on the drug aducanumab at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. Biogen says it can slow the decline of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.

Alzheimer’s Disease

FDA Approves First Alzheimer’s Treatment in 18 Years. Now What?

June 7, 2021

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Language Rehabilitation

Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain

June 3, 2021

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Sustainable Technology

As Office Work Returns, This Smart HVAC System Could Save Energy, Money, and Even Lives

May 24, 2021

As Office Work Returns, This Smart HVAC System Could Save Energy, Money, and Even Lives