A New Drug-Resistant Fungus Is Spreading in Hospitals. Is It The Last of Us in Real Life?
Candida auris isn’t going to “cause a zombie apocalypse tomorrow,” says CARB-X director Kevin Outterson—but researchers do need to take it seriously
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How to Help Kids Become Better Readers
BU researchers identify solutions to improve reading and literacy skills and help children struggling with reading
How Will Anti-Trans Laws Impact Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth Mental Health?
As states ban gender-affirming care and participation in sports, BU study finds more than half of trans and gender-diverse kids report depression and self-harm—but that peer and school supports can help
How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women
BU-led study used video games to test ways of balancing agriculture and conservation—and found getting more women involved in decision-making may boost productivity and the planet’s health
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Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy
BU researchers with NASA funding will lead a multimillion-dollar, multi-institution project to help develop quieter vertical lift air vehicles
Skiers and Snowboarders Could Be Exposing Themselves to Harmful “Forever Chemicals” Without Realizing
A new BU study finds that routine gear maintenance raises risk of being exposed to PFAS and other chemicals
New Bubble Popping Theory Could Help Track Ocean Pollution and Viruses
BU engineers find why some particles—like microplastics—get concentrated and aerosolized by bursting bubbles, while others don’t
Latest Grants Awarded
The National Institute on Aging and the McKnight Brain Research Foundation award a research team at the BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine $20 million to study why some centenarians never develop Alzheimer’s Disease.
CARB-X, a BU-based partnership that aims to solve antimicrobial resistance, receives up to $370 million in new funding from BARDA and charitable foundation Wellcome.
BU's SHIELD DRIVE Science Center is selected by NASA for Phase 2 funding totaling $15 million to better understand the nature and structure of the heliosphere.
The NSF awards a half of a million dollars to a research team in the College of Arts & Sciences to study multinational corporations and carbon emissions.
Distinguished Awards
? 8 BU faculty are members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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Behind the Scenes at BU's Photonics Center
Video reveals the engineering feat that allows this research hub to carry out sensitive experiments despite proximity to Mass Pike
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: Black Youth and Families Are Being Left Behind as We Return to Normal: A Call for Action
Centering families living with permanent effects of the COVID-19 pandemic can create a new normal
POV: Local Climate Action Matters Now More than Ever
While world leaders dither on combating climate change at COP27, steps by states and cities show ways to win the fight closer to home
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.
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These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows
“Standout individuals” honored for advancing our knowledge of birth
Two BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Ji-Xin Cheng and Lei Tian will lead efforts to further dynamic imaging research at BU’s College of Engineering
BU’s Christopher Chen Elected a National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Biomedical engineer and regenerative medicine company cofounder honored for work to pioneer cures for heart attacks, liver disease, and more
BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits
Prestigious five-year award from the National Science Foundation will advance research and expand student opportunities
NIH Honors Two BU Researchers “Poised to Blaze New Paths of Discovery”
Prestigious Director’s Awards encourage scientists to “pursue trailblazing ideas,” including study of energy industry impact on reproductive health and technology to see lung’s inner workings
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