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Heightened Risk of Eating Disorders for Transgender, Gender-Diverse College Students
Latest Healthy Minds Network study also highlights how colleges and universities can help reduce risk and support students
Building a Diverse, Strong Climate Workforce
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
Reducing Barriers to Anemia Treatment
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
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How Should Teachers and Parents Talk about the Uvalde School Shooting with Their Children?
Child clinical psychologist Jennifer Greif Green on helping kids and educators deal with the trauma of another mass shooting
How Worried Should We Be about Monkeypox?
The country’s history with smallpox vaccination might help, but it’s not yet a cause for alarm, says NEIDL virologist
8 Major Findings and Headlines from BU CTE Researchers in the Past Year
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
Latest Grants Awarded
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.
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? 7 BU faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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Inside the Insectary: How BU Scientists Study Diseases from Mosquitoes -- without Getting Bitten
Researchers at BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are using the Aedes aegypti mosquito to study diseases like dengue, West Nile, and Zika
Empowering Citizen Scientists to Study and Protect Coastal Wetlands
BU scientists develop portable sensors to measure carbon levels in coastal environments that are critical to fighting climate change
What Is the Difference between Pandemic and Endemic?
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
Tracing the History of New England’s Ice Trade
History professor studies long-gone industry, and how climate change would have made it virtually impossible today
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POV: US Child Welfare System Is Falling Short Because of Persistent Child Poverty
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”
POV: The Killing We Continue to Fail to Stop
We know how to fix the problem of gun violence, so why haven’t we acted on it?
POV: What Rights Could Unravel Next, in Light of Draft Opinion by SCOTUS Overturning Roe v. Wade
A close reading of the draft by Justice Alito suggests that other precedents could be vulnerable
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Accolades
Engineer Xin Zhang Awarded 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Metamaterials pioneer says award will allow her to devote research to “some of the world’s most interesting and challenging problems”
BU Sloan Fellowship Winner Mark Bun on Data Privacy, Embracing Failure, Baking Cakes
“I usually learn more about a problem from repeatedly failing to solve it than from the one time I succeed”
Inventor Mark Grinstaff Named an AAAS Fellow
Recognition for chemist and biomedical engineer behind revolutionary cancer treatment and other “distinguished contributions” with “global therapeutic impact”
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future
To help students invent the technology of tomorrow, Selim Ünlü starts with a lesson about the breakthroughs of the past
Human Rights Activist and Music Educator André de Quadros Recognized for Career Dedicated to Justice and the Arts
Chorus America has honored the BU music professor for his years teaching music to marginalized people and communities
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