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How Racism and Bias Influence Substance Use and Addiction Treatment
Christina Lee calls substance use treatment a social justice issue and is helping healthcare providers see the connection between discrimination and drinking
Mosquitoes Have a Bizarre Sense of Smell, Study Finds
The unconventional way mosquitoes process odors could help explain why they are so good at finding humans to bite
How Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks May Stifle Creativity and Progress
Intellectual property scholar Jessica Silbey argues laws haven’t kept pace with the digital era and are enriching individuals and corporations at the expense of society, equality, and innovation
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Did Orange Line Shutdown Have Uneven Health, Economic Impacts on Lower-Income Neighborhoods?
BU School of Public Health researchers are mapping traffic congestion, air quality, and health fallout from the monthlong suspension of busy MBTA subway line
Immune Cells Engineered to Battle Cancer Can Be Turned “On” or “Off”
Researchers at BU develop a safety system for edited T cells, called VIPER CAR-T cells, that could make cancer treatment safer and more effective
“A Lasting Legacy of Excellence”: Reflections on President Brown’s Impact on BU Research
BU researchers share how retiring president shaped their work and careers, as well as the University’s standing on the national stage
Latest Grants Awarded
The Framingham Heart Study was awarded $25 million to continue the study’s research around identifying common factors and characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
The National Institutes of Health awards $3.8 million to a cross-disciplinary research team led by an associate professor at BU’s School of Public Health that evaluates olfactory pathways linking air pollution exposure to dementia risk.
The National Institutes of Health award $3.5 million to an interdisciplinary BU research team working on developing a strategy for accelerating the pace of gene discovery for complex traits, such as drug addiction.
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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 thinking 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: Four Reforms for a Renewed CDC
Director Rochelle Walensky has acknowledged the public health agency’s pandemic mistakes and announced an overhaul. SPH Dean Sandro Galea and Georgetown University’s Lawrence O. Gostin suggest four vital reforms.
POV: End of Roe v. Wade and Right to Abortion Will Impact Research, Says ENG Professor
Catherine M. Klapperich writes that the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson will change her research on reproductive health technology—and end some of it altogether
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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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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