Recent Grants
Rhodora Therese Torres, PhD student at SAR, receives PhRMA Foundation’s Value Assessment and Health Outcomes Research Award
Predoctoral fellowships provide $30,000 a year of stipend support for up to two years. The project is called Real-World Assessment of Gait and Sleep for Early Identification of Pain Flares in People With Knee Osteoarthritis.
Casey Taft, Professor of Psychiatry at MED, awarded grant from Arnold Ventures to fund “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.”
Casey Taft has been awarded a $298,139 grant from Arnold Ventures to fund his 4-year project, “Evaluating Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Use in Washington State.” Using this grant money from Arnold Ventures, Taft and his team will compare the effectiveness of different interventions using data analysis to examine reductions in... More
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