Why the First Black Hole Image is a Big Deal
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Why the First Black Hole Image is a Big Deal
BU scientists who were part of the historic Event Horizon Telescope collaboration supported by the National Science Foundation tell you everything you need to know. Shed some light on the matter
FACULTY EXPERT
How To Fix a Broken Baseball System
Major League Baseball umpires missed over 34,000 ball-strike calls last year. After studying more than four million game pitches, BU’s Mark Williams suggests a solution. Play ball!
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Can We Supercharge Memories Back to Life?
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, BU neuroscientists use electrostimulation to allow people in their 70s to perform memory tasks like a 20-year-old. Learn how
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
Join us as we make some noise at a Capitol Hill reception for BU alumni and friends on April 30… The BU Global Development Policy Center hosted a briefing on the crisis of multilateralism on April 12… Jeffrey Samet of the BU School of Medicine will use $89 million from the National Institutes of Health HEAL Initiative to reduce opioid deaths in the Commonwealth by 40% in three years… BU joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Action Collaborative to combat sexual harassment in science, engineering, and medicine… The seven-decade-long Framingham Heart Study, run by BU, will now tackle the biology of aging… Renée Spencer of the BU School of Social Work explains how young girls approach competitiveness in The Wall Street Journal.