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.
Permanently Expanding the Child Tax Credit Can Make Generational Change
BU researchers argue a permanent expansion would protect families against economic shocks.
Researchers Are One Step Closer to Diagnosing CTE during Life, Rather Than after Death
A new BU CTE Center paper connects cognitive and behavioral symptoms to protein buildup in the brain that marks the disease.
Video Mini Explainer: The Global Problem of Statelessness
Amid a refugee crisis, director of BU Center on Forced Displacement argues for a new approach to helping people not recognized by any country.
The Race to a Battery-Powered Future
Engineers at BU are figuring out how to make better, more sustainable batteries—a technology that is essential for clean energy.
Why Is the US So Unprepared for Natural Disasters?
New BU School of Social Work researcher Darien Alexander Williams studies how climate change, disaster response, and urban planning intertwine with social justice and racism.
New Study Identifies the Greatest Threat to Wildlife across North America and Canada: People
BU biology student studied more than 600,000 wildlife rehabilitation center records to look at the human impact on wild animals, from lead poisonings to window strikes to vehicle collisions.
Preventing the Next Pandemic
New Zealand’s former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern joins the world’s leading infectious disease scientists and experts at BU to discuss how to prepare for future outbreaks.
They Served Their Country. Now, They’re Serving Their Fellow Veterans.
Two veterans turned Boston University researchers are studying PTSD to find better treatments for their former comrades.
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.