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    Bostonia: Travels with Titan

    October 30, 2014
    Art historian Jodi Cranston and her students developed an interactive guide to the work of the master painter Titan. Cranston, a CAS professor of Renaissance art and Institute Faculty Fellow, and a team of students from the CAS history of art and architecture department created this work with support from the Institute and the Kress Foundation. […]
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    Brain Rhythms and Audition Mini Symposium

    March 23, 2011
    In collaboration with the Center for Biodynamics, on April 14th, 2011, the Institute is hosting a Mini Symposium on "Brain Rhythms and Audition”. The event will take place at the Conservative Chapel in the Hillel House at Boston University, and will feature the following presentations: “Multiple gamma rhythms and the rate vs. Temporal code dilemma”, Dr. Miles […]

  • Breaking Barriers: DataHub Launches to Advance AI-Driven and Convergent Health Research

    June 11, 2026
    The Center for Health Data Science debuts initiative to help cross-disciplinary researchers more easily find, connect, and analyze complex health datasets By Maureen Stanton While the health sector is generating unprecedented volumes of digital data,  fragmented systems, regulatory complexity, and technical barriers often make it difficult for researchers to efficiently discover, access, and connect data […]

  • Brian DePasquale receives 2025 Scialog NCE award for neurobiology and changing ecosystems research

    May 23, 2025
    By Maureen L. Stanton Brian DePasquale, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Hariri Institute faculty fellow at Boston University, is among the distinguished researchers selected for the inaugural Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems (NCE) award. This Scialog initiative is a three-year initiative that aims to spark new science exploring neurobiological response to rapid and extensive […]
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    Bridging Linguistic and Visual Knowledge through Visual Genome

    June 10, 2018
    FALL 2018 RESEARCH INCUBATION AWARDEE PI: Derry Wijaya, Assistant Professor, Computer Science What is the Challenge? Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems aim to provide answers to questions about images but currently suffer from limitations. Successful performance on the VQA task could dramatically improve the lives of blind people, whose questions about images are currently quite difficult […]
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    BU “Shape-Up” Team Wins the MIT Solve Challenge

    October 9, 2019
    Led by Boston University professor Jonathan Jay, the "Shape-Up" team was awarded the "EveryTown for Gun Safety" Prize by MIT Solve, an initiative of MIT, with $100K funding. The team is 1 of the 32 new Solver teams and was selected from a pool of nearly 1,400 applications from over 100 countries. MIT Solve aims to advance […]
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    BU Alums Strive As Successful Data Scientists

    February 24, 2020
    BU Today published an article titled “10 Alums Working in Data Science Share Their Career Path Stories” that features prosperous alums who have successfully made their mark in the field of computing and data sciences. With “data scientist” being named one of the best jobs in America, based on indicators such as salary, job satisfaction and […]
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    BU and Red Hat Expand Innovative Partnership

    April 27, 2021
    $20 million grant enables an ecosystem of education, research, and technology to scale the open hybrid cloud Boston University (BU) and Red Hat announced a $20 million renewal and expansion of their partnership at Red Hat Summit 2021 to drive new talent, processes, and innovations for the open hybrid cloud. Over the next five years, […]

  • BU and Red Hat Research Win Best Paper Award at ISQED

    May 1, 2024
    “AutoAnnotate: Reinforcement-learning-based code annotation for high-level synthesis,” a paper resulting from a project at the Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University, was selected as one of four Best Papers at the 25th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’24).  The authors are Boston University alumna Hafsah Shahzad (PhD, ECE, 2024) and Professor Martin Herbordt (ECE), […]
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    BU Announces Digital Health Initiative

    January 27, 2017
    Boston University is pleased to announce the BU Digital Health Initiative, a new collaboration between the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. The BU Digital Health Initiative seeks to advance progress in health and healthcare by supporting research projects and convening a university-wide, multi-disciplinary community of researchers, practitioners, and students.