Brink Bites: BU Health Researchers Win Major NIH Grants; BU Device Named Among Time’s Best Inventions of 2025
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including big funding wins, opposition to deepfakes, and studying LGBTQ+ suicide risk factors.
More Americans Aged 25 to 44 Are Dying Younger. BU Research Helps Explain Why
School of Public Health researcher coleads study that finds sharp increase in excess deaths largely due to drug overdoses, alcohol use, traffic accidents, and homicides.
Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers
Highlights from a year of BU research, from an AI program that can predict Alzheimer’s disease to an ancient Egyptian treasure.
Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias?
With help from a $29 million grant, a BU researcher is coleading a national project to determine whether addressing key lifestyle and risk factors could reduce dementia risk.
Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World
Event showcased some of BU’s star researchers, celebrating how they cross and blur disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of change.
New AI Program from BU Researchers Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s Disease
By analyzing speech patterns, machine learning model can say with a high degree of accuracy whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s-associated dementia within six years.
BU Celebrates 7,600 Graduates at Buoyant 151st Commencement
Ceremony includes small student walkout over war in Gaza and a farewell to President ad interim Kenneth Freeman.
What Causes Osteoarthritis? BU Researchers Win $46 Million Grant to Pursue Answers and Find New Treatments
National Institute on Aging award to support research that aims to reduce need for knee and hip replacement surgeries.
The Ingredients of Unequal Aging: Housing, Income, and Health
How a lifetime of poverty and discrimination leads to unequal aging, and what will help us take care of the most vulnerable.
Racism, Sexism, and the Crisis of Black Women’s Health
For nearly 30 years, Boston University has led the largest and longest-running study of Black women’s health, shining a light on tragic disparities and showing women their lives matter.