Kate Nussenbaum, Assistant Professor of PBS, announced as 2026 Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow
Summary of Work Plans for Fellowship: Making good choices requires considering not just their immediate outcomes, but also their longer-term consequences, a cognitive process that exhibits substantial individual variability across development. Such variability may reflect adaptation to the predictability of experienced environments. In predictable environments, knowledge of the world can be used to forecast the […]
Amelia Stanton, Assistant Professor of PBS, awarded American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Early Career Researcher Grant
This study will apply a novel statistical approach to medical record data to identify subgroups of sexual and gender minority youth and young adults with intersecting factors that are associated with increased risk for suicidal ideation. The research team will also hold focus groups with sexual and gender minority youth patients at increased risk for […]
Lucy Kim, Associate Professor of Art, announced as one of Wagner Foundation’s 2026 Arts Fellows
The Wagner Arts Fellowship honors mid-career to established artists who are committed to Boston’s creative arts ecosystem and to developing socially engaged, community-focused work. Three Greater Boston-based artists have been selected to receive $75,000 each to build their practices in 2026. The fellowship is geared towards contemporary visual artists, but also artists who transform our idea […]
Project on social return to R&D investment led by QST Professor Timothy Simcoe chosen for support by Coefficient Giving, Sloan Foundation
Investments in research, development, and innovation are widely recognized as key drivers of long-term economic growth but estimates of the social rate of return on these investments vary substantially. To encourage research on this topic, sometimes called “The Griliches Question,” the NBER has launched a five-year project that will be organized around the creation of […]
PhRMA Foundation Q&A with Dr. Samagya Banskota: Advancing Precision Genome Editing Therapies for Rare Diseases
Dr. Banskota is developing precision genome editing therapeutics that allow scientists to both understand the mutations that cause genetic diseases and develop therapeutic strategies to treat them.
Early-Career Faculty Funding: Opportunities, Resources, and Strategies for Success (2/18/26)
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Two BU Bioengineers, Brian DePasquale and Michael Economo, win prestigious Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation gave 126 fellowships this year to early-career researchers from 44 institutions in the United States and Canada; the list was selected from more than 1,000 nominations. The prestigious honor (59 fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes) has been awarded annually since 1955 to researchers “whose creativity, innovation, and […]
Study lead by Terry Ellis, Professor and Department Chair of Physical Therapy, receives $2M grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation
The funding will support a clinical study evaluating motor and cognitive factors associated with changes in walking for people with Parkinson’s disease who use MedRhythms’ MOVIVE (MR-005), a safe, use-at-home medical device that delivers rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) to support gait rehabilitation and motor function. This study was funded through The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s […]
Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development (IECOHD) receives Rapid Response grant from William T. Grant Foundation
The project, Immigrant Inclusion in the U.S. Tax and Transfer System: Reviewing Evidence to Inform State Policy Action, is lead by Dolores Acevedo-Garcia (SSW), Stephanie Ettinger De Cuba (SPH), and Pamela K. Joshi (SSW), as well as Christopher Wimer at Columbia University. IECOHD and the Center on Poverty and Social Policy (CPSP) at the Columbia […]
Assistant Professors Hadi Nia and Brianne Connizzo announced as Hevolution/AFAR New Investigators in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Hevolution Foundation announced the third cohort of the Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Awardees in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research. This program enables junior investigators with labs in the US and Canada, and with at least three years of independent research, to advance research projects in basic biology of […]