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How to Help Kids Become Better Readers

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BU researchers identify solutions to improve reading and literacy skills and help children struggling with reading.

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How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?

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As states ban gender-affirming care and participation in sports, BU study finds more than half of trans and gender-diverse kids report depression and self-harm—but that peer and school supports can help.

Tagged: ACLU, diversity, education, gallery, health, LGBTQ, mental health, News, pediatrics, psychology, public policy, research, sex, stress, students, wellness, Wheelock

BU Appoints New Executive Director of Innovate@BU

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Former MassChallenge president and CEO Siobhan Dullea (CAS’91) starts April 3.

Tagged: BUalum, CAS, innovation, News, staff, students

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great — and Noisy

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BU researchers with NASA funding will lead a multimillion-dollar, multi-institution project to help develop quieter vertical lift air vehicles.

Tagged: awards, Earth, environment, funding, innovation, labs, NASA, News, public safety, research, STEM

Climate Change Is Threatening the Mystic River Watershed — Can It Be Saved?

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Researchers at BU’s School of Public Health use geospatial data and mapping tools to support community climate resilience efforts.

Tagged: awards, climate, climate change, climate resilience, community, ecology, environment, environmental health, faculty, funding, health, health sciences, News, research, SPH, sustainability

Closing the Literacy Gap

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Hank Fien and BU’s National Center on Improving Literacy are on a mission to cultivate a generation of readers.

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Boston University to Open New LGBTQIA+ Student Resource Center

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Will be housed in 808 Commonwealth Ave., near the Howard Thurman Center.

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Algorithms Were Supposed to Reduce Bias in Criminal Justice—Do They?

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Data can discriminate, says BU’s Ngozi Okidegbe, the first dual-appointed professor to the School of Law and the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.

Tagged: CDS, data sciences, faculty, LAW, News, research

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Address BU School of Law Convocation in May

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Trailblazing justice appointed to the High Court last June.

Tagged: convocation, LAW, News, Supreme Court, University

BU Researchers Join $100 Million Effort to Fight Future Deadly Pathogens

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Scientists from NEIDL and medical and dental schools part of Howard Hughes Medical Institute push to get ahead of pandemics like COVID-19.

Tagged: awards, coronavirus, disease, faculty, funding, global health, health, immune system, labs, microbiology, molecular biology, NEIDL, News, research

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