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  • $1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition

    July 13, 2023
    As Norway strives to position itself as a hub for global digital infrastructure—building data centers for cloud storage and processing—questions about the benefits and tradeoffs of digitalization are being brought to the forefront of its sustainability policy. Now, through a government-backed initiative, the Research Council of Norway has awarded more than $1.1 million in funding […]

  • 2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients

    December 14, 2023
    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 […]

  • A Preemptive Strike on Future Pandemics

    February 1, 2024
    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 […]

  • Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing

    August 19, 2021
    BY GINA MANTICA Some computational problems are so complex that they require many times more calculations than a typical laptop can handle. High performance computing (HPC) combines a number of computer servers to carry out these large-scale computations that often operate on massive data sets. But data centers for HPC require immense amounts of power […]

  • Boston University’s Ioannis Paschalidis Inducted into 2026 AIMBE College of Fellows

    April 13, 2026
    Prestigious Honor Recognizes the Most Accomplished Researchers in Medical and Biological Engineering By Maureen Stanton The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis into its 2026 College of Fellows. This peer-elected membership is among the highest professional distinctions in the field, honoring the top two percent of medical and […]

  • BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

    August 23, 2023
    Dark matter might be one of the most important substances in the universe—the glue that stops stars flying away from each other and ripping galaxies apart. It’s also one of the most mysterious. It's proven so stubbornly hard to see that researchers can only guess at its existence. Boston University physicist and Hariri Institute faculty […]

  • BU Interdisciplinary Team Wins DOE Grant for Biopreparedness Research

    September 11, 2023
    By Chloe Patel, Hariri Institute for Computing Boston University researchers affiliated with the Hariri Institute, College of Engineering, and School of Public Health, have received a subaward from a $12 million U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant awarded to a coalition of DOE National Laboratories led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). This funding, […]

  • BU Scientists Advance Efforts to Predict the Behavior of Bacterial Colonies

    September 10, 2025
    Using COMETS simulations, researchers showed how metabolism, nutrient use, and physical growth shape colony structure and genetic diversity By Maureen Stanton Microbes — tiny organisms invisible to the naked eye — rarely live in isolation. They form dynamic communities that shape ecosystems in our bodies, soils, oceans, and industries. Despite their microscopic size, these communities […]

  • City Trees Have Their Own Microbiomes—and Urban Living Is Changing Them

    November 3, 2025
    Urban trees play a vital role in maintaining the health of cities and their residents by cooling neighborhoods, filtering air pollution, supporting biodiversity, and enhancing human well-being. However, these benefits are deeply connected to the tree microbiome—the community of microorganisms that supports tree health and resilience. As urbanization increases and cities face growing challenges from […]

  • Congratulations to SeclaBU for an impressive showing at 33rd USENIX!

    September 1, 2024
    Boston University Security Lab (SeclaBU) researchers published five papers, receiving a Distinguished Paper Award, at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, considered one of the most competitive venues for computer systems research. The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium only accepted 417 papers out of 2,276 submissions (acceptance rate of 18%). SeclaBU USENIX Security Symposium publications included: Distinguished […]