
From the Lab to Your Life
The BU Ignition Awards help fast-track the commercialization of promising new research, from a tiny ring that stops chronic pain to soft robotic grippers that can pick up delicate objects
The BU Ignition Awards help fast-track the commercialization of promising new research, from a tiny ring that stops chronic pain to soft robotic grippers that can pick up delicate objects
Latest Healthy Minds Network study also highlights how colleges and universities can help reduce risk and support students
Climate leaders from Boston University and around the country briefed Congressional staff on how they are working to train the next generation for careers solving the climate crisis
More than half of women in India are anemic—Hagere Yilma helped build a transformative public health intervention to boost their iron levels and their health
Child clinical psychologist Jennifer Greif Green on helping kids and educators deal with the trauma of another mass shooting
The country’s history with smallpox vaccination might help, but it’s not yet a cause for alarm, says NEIDL virologist
Experts have made breakthroughs on diagnosing CTE in the living, and in studying the impact of college football on the brain, pro football’s link to ALS, and the risk of additional years of playing ice hockey
The American Heart Association awards a research team at BU School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center $2.7 million to open a new center to study why some cancer patients develop cardiovascular issues after treatment.
The National Institutes of Health awards $2.8 million to a BU professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences and Biomedical Engineering to study how testosterone therapy changes the voices of transgender men.
The US Department of Defense awards a $2.3 million, three-year grant to the College of Engineering to run outreach programs that provide underserved high school students with access to pioneering biotechnology companies and an introduction to synthetic biology.
The Russell Sage Foundation awards $150,000 to a BU-led research team to study how the pandemic is changing workplace flexibility and the gender pay gap.
view all? 7 BU faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Researchers at BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are using the Aedes aegypti mosquito to study diseases like dengue, West Nile, and Zika
BU scientists develop portable sensors to measure carbon levels in coastal environments that are critical to fighting climate change
BU epidemiologist Ellie Murray explains how a pandemic becomes an endemic, what that means, and if we'll ever be able to stop thinkin about COVID
History professor studies long-gone industry, and how climate change would have made it virtually impossible today
More progress “will require a more robust safety net and authorities taking a more constructive approach to supporting parents of children deemed to be experiencing neglect or abuse”
We know how to fix the problem of gun violence, so why haven’t we acted on it?
A close reading of the draft by Justice Alito suggests that other precedents could be vulnerable
Metamaterials pioneer says award will allow her to devote research to “some of the world’s most interesting and challenging problems”
“I usually learn more about a problem from repeatedly failing to solve it than from the one time I succeed”
Recognition for chemist and biomedical engineer behind revolutionary cancer treatment and other “distinguished contributions” with “global therapeutic impact”
To help students invent the technology of tomorrow, Selim Ünlü starts with a lesson about the breakthroughs of the past
Chorus America has honored the BU music professor for his years teaching music to marginalized people and communities
From biomedical engineering to literature to infectious disease, Boston University’s research enterprise knows no bounds.
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