Ayse Lokmanoglu, Assistant Professor at COM, wins prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
Ayse Lokmanoglu is studying a key crossroads in our cultural moment: political polarization and how it’s fed by online images, including those generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Lokmanoglu, a BU College of Communication assistant professor of emerging media studies, will spend two years investigating how images “spread online during politically charged moments like elections, and […]
Project co-lead by Sarah Gordon, Associate Professor at SPH, awarded grant from Arnold Ventures to create a “Medicaid atlas”
Researchers from the BU School of Public Health and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded more than $950,000 from Arnold Ventures to create a “Medicaid atlas”—a national, data-driven web platform that will illuminate how healthcare use and spending vary across Medicaid programs, plans, and populations.
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Two BU Scientists Receive Prestigious 2026 Breakthrough Prizes
Two Boston University faculty members were honored with 2026 Breakthrough Prizes—among the world’s most prestigious science awards—at a ceremony in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 18. Lee Roberts, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of physics, received a Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, one of six top prizes awarded annually for transformative achievements in life […]
CFA Dean Harvey Young announced as 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
The 2026 year is the 101st class of fellows and taps 223 trailblazing artists, scientists, and scholars across 55 fields. The Guggenheim Foundation has always been committed to awarding Fellowships at the highest level. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded nearly $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 Fellows. In all, 55 scholarly […]
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 […]