Professor Mark W. Grinstaff has won the inaugural Innovator-of-the-Year Award from BU’s Office of Technology Development, recognizing a faculty member who translates research into innovations that benefit humankind.
A team of researchers released findings suggesting that current plans to introduce fresh water to inland marshes around the Louisiana Gulf Coast may weaken protective coastal barriers, leaving inland regions more vulnerable to hurricanes.
Scientists from the Center for Space Physics announced today that they have sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity.
BU and Sovereign Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Banco Santander (Spain), have entered an agreement by which the bank will provide BU $300,000 a year for three years to support a number of programs related to Hispanic studies.
The grant will fund research to develop tools to protect the privacy of social media users.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jonathan Appavoo and colleagues from other institutions have received a grant from the US Department of Energy to support research on “A Fault-Oblivious Extreme-Scale Execution Environment.”
The ASC received a Foreign Language and Area Studies grant to provide scholarships for students of African languages, including for the first time three annual fellowships for undergraduates.
The National Science Foundation has awarded total of $3M to fund a new research project “Towards Trustworthy Interactions in the Cloud.”
The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.5 million grant to a team of researchers from BU, the University of Washington, the University of Maryland, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor of Earth Sciences Matt Jackson and four colleagues from other institutions recently discovered the oldest rocks on the planet.