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 […]
For Barr Foundation’s new head, this is a homecoming.
Ali Noorani cut his teeth as a nonprofit leader in Boston. Now he’s back to lead one of the dynamic foundations in the region. By Adrian Walker Globe Columnist,Updated December 10, 2025, When Ali Noorani left Boston in 2008 — after years as a high-profile activist, most notably on immigration issues — he didn’t think […]
Sarah Davies, Associate Professor of Biology, receives 2025 Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship
The Pivot Fellowship is open to faculty in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, data science and computer science at academic institutions or equivalent positions elsewhere. Pivot fellows receive support to apply their skills and expertise to a new area of research. Fellows receive support for one year of mentored training in their new discipline. The fellowships […]
With a Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship, Earth & Environment professor Wally Fulweiler is learning data science
With the support of a Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship, Wally Fulweiler is spending this school year studying data science and building a new tool that could greatly expand her research as an ecosystems ecologist and biogeochemist.
School of Theology Receives $1 million from Lilly Endowment to Build a Support Network of New England Churches
A new BU STH initiative seeks to give churches across the region a boost of hope by convening groups of ordained and lay leaders to share resources and feel more connected. The New Wineskins Network, funded with a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment’s Pathways for Tomorrow initiative, will create small groups of church leaders from […]
Sargent College Assistant Professors receive 2025 American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation awards
Kimberly Crespo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, has received the New Investigators Research Grants for her project “Learning While Sleeping: Statistical Word Learning and Consolidation in Children with and without Development Language Disorder”. Jennifer Zuk, Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, has received the […]
Shawn Lyons, Assistant Professor (CAMED), receives Emerging Respiratory Pathogen Award from American Lung Association
Dr. Lyons will receive $100,000/year for up to two years for their project “Exploiting Weak Spot in How Viruses Operate to Combat Severe Respiratory Infections”. The program was designed to gain a better understanding of the pathobiology and the immediate and long-term implications of respiratory infections.
Ahmed Raslan, Research Assistant Professor (CAMED), receives Dalsemer Interstitial Lung Disease Award from American Lung Association
Dr. Raslan received the award for their project, “Targeting Lung Capillary Endothelial Cells to Halt the Progression of Lung Fibrosis.” The award provides $50,000/year for up to two years for mentored early career scientists ascending toward independence, this award provides seed monies to junior investigators for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease.