Strategies for Pursuing Department of Defense Research Funding
BU Federal Relations and BU Research hosted a Zoom workshop on pursuing Department of Defense research funding on Thursday, November 6, 2025.
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.
BU Backs Lawsuit to Halt Cuts to Department of Defense Research Funding
Legal declaration says dramatic drop in DOD support could imperil research that “millions of Americans benefit from and depend on”.
Live Coronavirus Research Gets Underway at BU NEIDL
Virologist Robert Davey will screen thousands of drugs for effectiveness against COVID-19 infection
ENG Prof Named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD
Siddharth Ramachandran. Photo courtesy of the College of Engineering. Siddharth Ramachandran, a Boston University College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials science engineering, thrives in the city. He loves the hustle and bustle of Boston and the diversity of all the people he encounters. When he’s not in his lab […]
BU-Led Study: CTE May Occur without Concussions
Progressive brain disease could be caused by repetitive head injuries Sections from two brains used in the current BU-led study. The left sample comes from a 17-year-old American male high school football player who died by suicide two days after a closed-head impact injury. The brown stain indicates a widespread immune response, pointing to an […]
Fighting Tick-Borne Disease with Computer Science
BU scientists on team building predictive tool to keep insects in check BU ecologists Tempest McCabe (GRS’21) and Michael Dietze develop computational tools to study the complex interactions between plants, animals, and climate. They want to find ways to predict ecological changes, such as fluctuations in tick populations, which could affect human health. Photo by […]
Congress Resists Research Cuts
2017 budget seen as hopeful preview for next round: 2018 funding
Improving Your Relationship with Federal Research Agencies
Every federal research agency is different. This March 2017 workshop from Research and Federal Relations explained how to work with different funders to give you the best possible chance to receive support for your research. Presenters from BU Federal Relations and Washington, DC, consulting firm Lewis-Burke Associates described most successful ways to introduce yourself or […]
BU-Led Neuroscientists Get $7.5 Million from US Navy
CAS prof oversees multicenter effort on brain’s rule learning Michael Hasselmo, director of BU’s Center for Systems Neuroscience, is principal investigator on the Navy grant. “How do brain circuits mediate learning rules of different types?” he asks. “To me, this is a central question of brain research.” Photo by Kalman Zabarsky. Learning new rules is […]