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BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human Experts

From measles, to influenza, to mpox, to malaria—infectious diseases outbreaks are happening all over the world, at nearly all times. For health professionals and public health officials, staying up-to-date with pathogens that are particularly dangerous—or have the potential to become a pandemic, like COVID-19 did—is vitally important to help keep us all safe. But accessing real-time information on outbreaks, as they pop up around the globe, isn’t always simple; currently, much of it is aggregated by hand. More

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ENG Achieves Highest US News Rankings Ever

New rankings of engineering schools released by US News & World Report place the Boston University College of Engineering 27th in the nation, the highest position in the College’s history. More