Boston University researchers developed a model to project COVID-19 quarantine housing needs in congregate settings ten days in advance. BY GINA MANTICA It’s difficult to plan ahead when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is so unpredictable. But, there is now a straightforward method for predicting one of the resources needed to slow the spread […]
The Boston University (BU) Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering: Red Hat Collaboratory is excited to announce the first recipients of the Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award! Through BU and Red Hat’s expanded partnership, the Red Hat Collaboratory seeks to create more trustworthy, reliable, scalable, self-operating, distributed, heterogeneous compute […]
BY ALEX JOHNSON Ana Fiszbein has always been interested in biology, but she became fascinated with molecular biology in college after learning about the intricacies of what happens inside of mammalian cells. Now, Fiszbein studies mammalian genes. Genes are incredibly complex structures, but they control and regulate almost everything in the human body. And Fiszbein’s […]
Assistant Professor Alan Liu [Faculty Affiliate of the Hariri Institute] may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, […]
BY ALEX JOHNSON The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, brought together world leaders to discuss the future of the entire planet. However, some scientists argue the importance of understanding changes and implementing solutions on a much smaller scale. Modeling, or using computers and mathematical equations to study complex systems, is one […]
BY GINA MANTICA Videos of United States (U.S.) airline staff dragging passengers off planes suggest some airlines have less-than-great customer service. Airlines’ reputations precede them on Twitter: customer service representatives only respond to about half of all online inquiries or complaints. New research by a team of researchers from Boston University, the University of Pittsburgh, […]
BY GINA MANTICA Although most trans men treated with testosterone are satisfied with how their voice sounds in the context of their gender identity, a sizeable proportion are not. And despite how commonly testosterone is used to masculinize speech, there is very little information on how it affects the vocal tract. Cara Stepp, a Research […]
BY ALEX JOHNSON & GINA MANTICA When most people hear the word “crypto”, their minds jump to cryptocurrencies. Meaning “hidden” in Greek, “crypto” is also short for “cryptography” – a field of research dedicated to encoding and decoding data. Modern cryptography has been around since the 1950’s and is almost as old as the very […]
BY GINA MANTICA Many people enter private information, like addresses and passwords, online regularly. But not many people know how to keep that sensitive information safe. Cybersecurity Awareness Month was created to ensure that people in the United States have the resources they need to be safer online. We asked one of our cybersecurity experts […]
BY GINA MANTICA One of the greatest unmet childhood healthcare needs in the United States is preventable. Early Childhood Caries is the occurrence of tooth decay in children younger than six years of age and disproportionately affects kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. But there are population dynamics at work that affect parents’ and caregivers’ health behaviors, […]