Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

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Medicine

Early Menarche Linked to Breast Cancer in African American Women

July 27, 2015

Max Kon

Linguistics & Language Sciences

A Rare Syndrome, a Brother’s Love

July 27, 2015

SpaceX Dragon private cargo spacecraft in space during its first mission to the International Space Station

Dentistry

Space Science for SDM Biologists

July 21, 2015

Forensic Science

Dubious DNA

July 21, 2015

CFA Music Chair Jeremy Yudkin

Arts

A CFA Center for All Things Beethoven

July 20, 2015

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Government & Law

Preventing an Antibiotic Apocalypse

July 15, 2015

Jacqueline Estevez (MED’17) is in California studying liver cancer in people who’ve had hepatitis, while Joseph Park (MED’18) works at Brigham & Women’s Hospital trying to understand a nasty shellfish bacteria. Photo of Estevez by Genevieve Shiffrar. Photo of Park by Cydney Scott

Accolades

Hughes Fellowships Send Two MED Students to the Lab

July 14, 2015

Public Health

Recreational, Weekend Drug Use Can Morph into Daily Use

July 13, 2015

Associate Professors Jennifer Luebke and Tarik Haydar

Neuroscience

Building Brain Complexity

July 9, 2015

Low-income children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could be better helped if their parents got skills counseling, MED’s Michael Silverstein says.

Pediatrics

Helping Parents Help Their ADHD Child

July 6, 2015

Children in a school in Botswana

Education

Cutting Risk of HIV Infection in Botswana

July 2, 2015

Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD, and Elizabeth Henry, DrPh, MHS.

Accolades

Pediatrics Professor and Public Health Student Win Top Honors

June 29, 2015

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Global Health

A Simple Way to Manage Chronic Disease

June 25, 2015

PerceptaTM early lung cancer detection device

Cancer

Detecting Lung Cancer Early

June 25, 2015

Veterans Affairs

Medicine

VA Honors Public Health Professor with Top Research Award

June 24, 2015

Dr. Jay Mizgerd - pulmonary researcher and principal investigator who runs a lab and is considered a leader on campus and in his field

Global Health

$1.6 NIH Grant for Pneumonia Research

June 22, 2015

Rachel Fearns, associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine

Infectious Diseases

Fighting a Deadly Virus

June 22, 2015

Urban Health

What the T Can Tell Us about Health Inequalities

June 19, 2015

Mark Kramer, associate professor of mathematical neuroscience CAS

Neuroscience

CAS Prof Wins NSF CAREER Award

June 18, 2015

Government & Law

“Rationalizing” Violence and Sexual Abuse at “Black Sites”

June 16, 2015

“Rationalizing” Violence and Sexual Abuse at “Black Sites”