Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

Professor Joyce Y. Wong and Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk

Accolades

AAAS Names Two BU Faculty as 2017 Fellows

December 11, 2017

Woman getting mammogram

Cancer

NIH Awards $8.6M to BU Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute and Colleagues

December 11, 2017

Diane Thompson extracting a core from a live Porites coral colony at Kiritimati in 2012.

Geosciences

Winds of Change

December 11, 2017

BU researchers Rahm Gummuluru and Bjoern Reinhard receive $2.7 million from NIH-NIAID

Medicine

Fighting HIV through a Better Delivery Method of Anti-retrovirals

December 7, 2017

Lynn Rosenberg, a principal investigator of the Black Women’s Health Study

Accolades

Helping Black Women Beat Insomnia

December 7, 2017

The blood vessel on the chip

Engineering Biology

Why Blood Vessels Leak

December 6, 2017

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

Climate Change

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

December 4, 2017

Wenxin Feng (GRS’19), left, and the team at Pison Technology are working on a device to help people with ALS. Photo by Gretchen Ertl (COM’95)

Healthcare Technologies

Wearable Tech to Help People with ALS

November 30, 2017

Sick kid with high fever laying in bed while mother checks the temperature

Global Health

TB as Major Cause of Death among Children Worldwide

November 30, 2017

M/V Shear Water

Environment & Ecology

Hurricane Irma Wreaked Havoc Under the Sea, Too

November 30, 2017

microscopic image of tau tangles

Alzheimer’s Disease

MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s

November 30, 2017

Pregnant woman with depression smoking cigarettes

Public Health

Smoking on Rise among Pregnant Women with Depression

November 30, 2017

Historian Cathal J. Nolan shows we’ve gotten a lot wrong about war—with bloody consequences

History

The Allure of Battle

November 30, 2017

Communications

How to Convince a Climate Change Skeptic

November 28, 2017

Education

Rebooting Deaf Ed

November 27, 2017

Michael Silverstein, a professor of pediatrics at BU School of Medicine, and a team of researchers incorporated a depression prevention technique into Head Start programs around Boston. Photo by Cydney Scott

Medicine

BU Researchers’ Study: Simple Problem-Solving Technique to Treat Depression

November 27, 2017

Graphic illustration symbolizing the cost of waging modern warfare

Government & Law

Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion

November 16, 2017

Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins (MED’18)

Data Science

Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns

November 15, 2017

Professor of Archaeology Catherine West holds a clamshell in Dutch Harbor middens where she studies ancient climate change adaptation in the Aleutian Islands.

Archaeology

Clamshells and Climate Change

November 14, 2017

Aaron Hernandez as an NFL player with the New England Patriots

CTE

Aaron Hernandez’s CTE Worst Seen by BU Experts in a Young Person

November 9, 2017

Aaron Hernandez’s CTE Worst Seen by BU Experts in a Young Person