Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

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

Two women take a selfie with an iphone

Social Media

Social Media–Filtered Pics Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

August 7, 2018

Ann McKee’s pioneering research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has earned her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Another Accolade for CTE Researcher Ann McKee

August 7, 2018

sunrise in the woods

Earth & Environment

Four Things to Know about Fungi “Climate Warriors”

August 3, 2018

Political scientists Maxwell Palmer (from left), David Glick, and Katherine Levine Einstein say big-city mayors shun higher office because of its hard-edged partisanship. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Social Sciences

Why Some Politicians Shun Promotions

August 1, 2018

Two men wearing helmets boxing with one punching the other in a ring.

Neuroscience

Contact Sports Associated with Lewy Body Disease

July 31, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic