Seven-Month Strike Ends as BU Graduate Workers Union Ratifies Contract
Union calls deal “significant improvements in our wages and benefits”.
CTE: How BU Is Changing the Game
From families donating their loved ones’ brains for study, to scientists racing to achieve diagnosis during life, to researchers trying to make America’s most popular sport safer, Boston University’s CTE Center is a hub for world-leading, cutting-edge research into the devastating neurodegenerative disease.
BU Biomedical Engineer Wins a 2024 National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award
Honor for Alexander A. Green will support high-risk project that could lead to improved cancer treatments and other therapies.
Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers
This year’s recipients are rising stars in the study of Latin American literature, molecular and cellular processes, religious history, chemistry, and physics-inspired computing.
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.
The Histories of Enslaved People Were Written by Slavers. A BU Researcher Is Working to Change That
Andreana Cunningham combines bioarchaeology, African diaspora studies, and archival research to better understand the lives of enslaved people.
Presidential Nominating Conventions Don’t Nominate, but They Still Matter, BU Scholar Says
COM’s Tammy Vigil, author of an upcoming book on 2020 conventions, says you can learn a lot from the quadrennial gatherings.
Heat Waves Are Scorching Boston, but Are Some Neighborhoods Hotter than Others?
BU researchers team up with city of Boston and local nonprofits to improve temperature monitoring and pilot a more equitable approach to declaring heat emergencies.
Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work
NSF CAREER awards recognize BU researchers innovating in biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, and more.
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.