A team of about 20 BU students are designing a small satellite called BUSAT, the Boston University Satellite for Applications and student Training. It is part of a competition sponsored by the US Air Force known as the University Nanosat Program (UNP).
The grant will fund the purchase of a hybrid computing cluster that will combine high-performance computing CPU power with GPU accelerators.
A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, according to researchers at Boston University, Yale, and Texas A & M.
This summer, after five years at the helm, Dean Virginia Sapiro was reappointed to continue as leader of Boston University’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Dean Sapiro offers reflections on the progress over the past first five years and on some of the tasks that lie ahead.
Boston University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Professor of Psychology Helen Tager-Flusberg has been named the director of a new Autism Center of Excellence (ACE), to be located at BU. The ACE will be funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
This summer, the offices affiliated with Student Academic Life in the College of Arts & Sciences moved to the new Student Services Center at 100 Bay State Road (at the corner of Deerfield Street).
Boston University is honored to be among the 13 educational institutions designated by the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program of the Henry Luce Foundation to receive annual funding in perpetuity to advance the careers of women in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.
Boston University undergraduate researcher Rob Marchwinski and his colleagues in BU’s Astronomy Department may have found the answer to a universal question: Why aren’t there more stars?
As much as 5 to 10 percent of material in a permanently shadowed lunar crater could be patchy ice, according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University’s Center for Remote Sensing.
A series of recent publications by CAS Earth & Environment researchers have focused on the field of garnet geochronology. The findings in this area were made possible by the National Science Foundation-funded BU-TIMS research facility.