BU Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez Given $1.15 Million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award
Expert on memory will use award’s five-year grant to advance research and train scientists from underrepresented backgrounds
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Neuroscientists from BU show that it’s possible to turn the volume down on a negative memory by stimulating other, happier ones
Christina Lee calls substance use treatment a social justice issue and is helping healthcare providers see the connection between discrimination and drinking
Why Do Some Kids Take Bigger Risks than Others?
Socioeconomic factors influence children’s risk-taking, says new study, and bad calls are not always the fault of poor judgment or lack of self-control
Bionic Pancreas Better for Managing Type 1 Diabetes
Clinical trial finds automated insulin delivery device, iLet, helps adults and kids maintain healthier blood glucose levels
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Airbnb or Hotel? How Travelers Choose
Study finds hygiene is the top decision factor for hotel customers and that Airbnb fans can be easily tempted to swap a home share for room service
Can You Get the New COVID-19 Booster at the Same Time as a Flu Shot?
The short answer is: yes
Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference
From social work to astronomy to the law, these leaders are pushing scientific and scholarly boundaries—and lifting up the next generation of Latinx academics
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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