Recent Grants
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... More
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.
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... More
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... More
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... More