Recent Grants
Mellon Foundation Awards BU $1.5 Million to Integrate Civil and Human Rights Archives into Undergraduate Curriculum
Supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, the integration of the University’s archival collections into courses will enable undergraduate students to directly engage with archival research while examining the powerful scholarship of these groundbreaking civil and human rights activists. Students will closely engage with the papers of... More
Simons Foundation launches collaboration co-directed by ENG’s Anna Devor to uncover how energy shapes brain computation
The human brain carries out more complex processes than any other organ, and to do this, it needs a lot of energy — roughly 20 percent of what the body generates. However, we still don’t fully understand how the brain creates energy, rations it out or uses its available supply... More
Oak Foundation gives $400,000 for continued expansion of the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN)
The Oak Foundation has given a four-year, $400,000 grant to BU's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine for the continued expansion of the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN), a national, peer support network led by women veterans for women veterans. WoVeN aims to reduce isolation and build strong local and national... More
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation President & CEO Stacie Bloom visits BU campus
Bloom met with Sloan Research Fellows as well as Chairs and nominators.
Maria Kamenetska, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Wins Moore Foundation Award to Push Boundaries of Experimental Physics
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative is provides investigators with $1.35 million over five years to give these scientists the flexibility to accelerate breakthroughs.