A Preemptive Strike on Future Pandemics
A BU-led research team publishes new findings that show how detecting and correctly assigning deaths can help mitigate the impact of pandemics By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute COVID-19 caused catastrophe and chaos across the globe. According to some disease forecasters, the world could face another COVID-like pandemic within 10 years. To improve our response to […]
The Boston Women’s Workforce Council Finds a 30% Decline in the Boston Gender Wage Gap
By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Alongside Boston University’s Hariri Institute, the Boston Women’s Workforce Council (BWWC) unveiled their 2023 Gender and Racial Wage Gap Data Results this month. Excitingly, the BWWC found that the gender wage gap in Greater Boston has declined by 30% – from 30¢ to 21¢. This is the first […]
2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients
By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]
How Dickens and other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—With Lasting Impacts
In Education for All? BU political scientist Cathie Jo Martin says education systems continue to be influenced by the ideas of Enlightenment- and Industrial Revolution-Era writers Story by Maureen Stanton and Alex Grzybowski Video by Natalie Williams In her new book, Education for All, Cathie Jo Martin, a Hariri Institute faculty affiliate and BU professor […]
Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Russo’s R01 Grant Allows for Promising Research Path
By Brendan Galvin, CISE Staff Sheila Russo, a CISE and Hariri Affiliate Professor (ME, MSE), won a four-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). This grant will support her research on soft robotics, which will enhance the safety and precision of interventional bronchoscopies, specifically addressing cancer biopsies. A lung cancer biopsy entails […]
Can an AI Model Learn the Changing Appearance of an Ear as a Baby Grows?
By Maureen L. Stanton Before vaccines, millions of children died or endured life-long disabilities from diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and meningitis. Unfortunately, there are still 20.5 million children who are missing lifesaving vaccines globally, 2.1 million more than in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. Childhood immunizations are carefully timed to be […]
Implications of Generative AI (ChatGPT) in Education
By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing Over the past year, ChatGPT has become a topic of hot debate, especially in the classroom due to student’s using the software’s work as their own. Whether you support the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) or not, it’s important to have discussions about both the capabilities as […]
Nia and Mizgerd Receive Kilachand Fund Award To Advance Crystal Rib Cage
Hariri Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Hadi Nia (BME, MSE), and BU Pulmonary Center Director Joseph Mizgerd received a 2023 Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering award to advance development of the crystal rib cage, an innovation developed in the Nia Lab that allows probing real-time lung function at cellular resolution. The […]
GSF Spotlight: Eddie Ruiz, Genetics & Genomics PhD student
Applying experimental and computational methods to improve systematic understanding of tissue and tumor biology By Chloe Wojtanik, Hariri Institute for Computing When Edward C. (“Eddie”) Ruiz, a third-year Genetics & Genomics PhD student, was asked to share what he’s most excited to accomplish during his time at the Hariri Institute, he simply said with a […]
Environmental Ecologist Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”
By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Lucy Hutyra, CAS Professor of Earth and Environment and Hariri Institute Core Faculty, was named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow—one of the most prestigious awards to individuals pursuing a range of intellectual and creative interests with global perspective. She is one of 20 fellows to receive the award, commonly known […]