50 Years After Mandated by US Law, Special Education’s Future in Question, BU Scholar Says
Wheelock’s Elizabeth Bettini, longtime special ed researcher, on the potential impact of cuts to students and the special ed workforce.
WHO Reports 40 Percent Jump in Antibiotic-Resistant infections; BU-Based Nonprofit Leads the Fight Back
CARB-X, an antibiotics research accelerator, is helping bring new medicines, vaccines, and tests to clinics worldwide.
BU Engineer Builds Next-Gen Sensors with Mix of Living Cells and Tiny Electronics
Biomedical engineer Miguel Jimenez blends engineering fields to develop devices to monitor environmental and human health.
NIH Honors Two BU Researchers for Exceptionally Creative, High-Impact Science
The prestigious Director’s Awards will support work studying sexual health and stopping mosquito bites.
BU Launches “You Are Why” Campaign, Highlighting Impact of Research and Discovery
President Melissa Gilliam says effort is designed to engage supporters, elected officials, and new partners to align behind research that solves problems of our time.
NASA Space Weather Mission Blasts Off—with Device Created by BU Students Onboard
The observatory is on a mission to understand Earth’s most distant layer of atmosphere, a project led by a BU alum.
Why Do We Remember Some Life Moments—but Not Others?
BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event.
BU CTE Center Study Ties Contact Sports Head Hits to Brain Damage
Repetitive head impacts can cause cell loss, inflammation, and vascular damage—even without CTE.
Boston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research
Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program support will also spur investment in early-career faculty.
Boston University, Boston Medical Center Researchers Work with High School Students to Build Peer-Led Overdose Prevention Program
Building a curriculum for teens, by teens: students from a Roxbury school met with researchers all summer to learn about opioid overdose prevention.