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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 […]
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 […]
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 ALEX JOHNSON A cold, dark, vacuum full of giant flaming gas balls is not exactly an ideal place to collect data. However, much of what we know about space is thanks to ingenuitive scientists who figure out how to collect information in an environment where they cannot exist. They create instruments and methods for […]
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 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 […]
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 […]