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Focused Research Program faculty members develop a predictive model for hospitalizations, disease severity, and death using dynamic vital signs and social determinants of health. BY GINA MANTICA Models that predict how COVID-19 affects patients are often biased due to the disproportionate effects of the disease on people of color in the United States. But researchers […]
BY ALEX JOHNSON Almost every American is used to sharing information with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), but people were about to become eerily intimate with the agency after they announced the launch of a new website requirement: live video identity verification. The agency partnered with the third-party company ID.me to prevent scammers from benefiting […]
Boston University researchers developed a machine learning model that found that the brain’s resting state functional connectivity can predict how stroke survivors with aphasia recover their language skills. BY GINA MANTICA & ALEX JOHNSON Despite centuries of study, the human brain remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. Most research focuses on how the brain responds […]
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 […]
BU researchers Lucy Hutyra and Luca Morreale, along with scientists from Harvard Forest and The City University of New York, find that trees along the edges of temperate forests grow faster and are denser as a result of fragmentation. BY GINA MANTICA Usually, deforestation conjures up images of fallen, lifeless trees and barren land. While […]
Researcher shares the roles, goals, and challenges of epidemiological models. BY GINA MANTICA To mitigate a virus, epidemiologists need to understand how it spreads. One way researchers investigate viral transmission is through modeling in a simulated environment. Modeling takes into account not only data about the virus, itself, but also information about people’s behaviors that […]
BY GINA MANTICA The overall gender wage gap hasn’t changed in the Boston area over the past two years, according to a recent report from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC). But identifying a problem is often the first step towards finding a solution, and data science provides the quantitative rigor and objectivity that can […]
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 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 GINA MANTICA At the onset of the pandemic, YouTube revamped its community guidelines to prohibit content containing COVID-19 misinformation. Just yesterday, YouTube announced in a blog post that it will no longer allow misinformation about any vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by health authorities. These new guidelines include […]