PPE Allowance FAQs
Am I allowed to charge PPE to my Grant? As mandated by Boston University, masks are mandatory inside all BU buildings at all times except when eating, and outdoors when physical distancing of at least six feet isn’t possible. Lab personnel should remove their cloth face covering before entering the lab and wear a dust/paper […]
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Global Scholars Program 2020
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) have invited Boston University, as one of a selected group of international institutions, to participate in their NIBR Global Scholars Program 2020. The program will provide BU faculty PIs with access to disease area drug-hunting and translational research expertise. Selected proposals, not funded by traditional grant support, will receive […]
Research Revealed: Antiracism Scholarship and Action
We stand in solidarity with the Black community and join the global community outraged by the senseless murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and the countless Black lives lost as a result of police violence. We are committed to using our leadership and resources to build a research program that confronts racism and amplifies Black […]
Spotlight on Frontline Workers in Animal Care
At the height of the pandemic shutdown, when businesses across the state remained closed and many were working from home, BU’s Animal Science Center had its lights on. The Animal Science Center (ASC) provides quality care to the thousands of animals enrolled in research projects at BU. While data acquisition for non-COVID research was on […]
New Affinity Research Collaborative Focuses on COVID-19
The BU Team Science CTSI/IBRO/Evans Center IBR, directed by Dr. Katya Ravid, is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Affinity Research Collaborative (ARC) titled, “Respiratory Viruses: A Focus on COVID-19,” co-directed by Drs. Markus Bosmann and Mohsan Saeed. This ARC, a multi-disciplinary research team of Boston University, aims to dissect how this virus invades the lung epithelium, how […]
Research Networks for Antiracism & LGBTQIA+
In February, BU Diversity & Inclusion and the Office of Research hosted exploratory meetings to discuss how we might more fully support scholars focused on antiracism and LGBTQIA+ research. As we are developing programming for fall semester, we invite faculty whose research or pedagogical interests are in either or both of these areas to join […]
Communication Research Center’s Biometric Workshops for Summer 2020
During the Fall 2019 semester, the CRC launched their first-ever series of biometric research workshops. Given that the Summer 1 semester has shifted to virtual learning, they have decided to continue these workshops into the summer remotely. While these new workshops won’t have the same hands-on components as they did in Fall 2019, they will […]
Virtual Charles River Campus IRB Office Hours
TO: Charles River Campus Faculty Engaged in Human Subjects Research FROM: Pamela Richmond, IRB Director, Charles River Campus DATE: May 28, 2020 SUBJECT: Virtual CRC IRB Office Hours The Charles River Campus Institutional Review Board (CRC IRB) has new offerings available to support your human subjects research, including new guidance and virtual office hours each […]
NEW – Online Fundamentals of Research Administration Curriculum
Dear Department, Grant, and Finance Administrators, We are excited to announce a new suite of online training for Administrators – Fundamentals of Research Administration. You can now access this suite of research administration training on Terrier eDevelopment (log in using your Kerberos password). Link to Online Curriculum What is the online training? The “Fundamentals of […]
Mentoring & Advising During the Ramp-Up of Research and Scholarship
Mentoring and advising interactions shape daily and overall experiences for graduate students and postdocs, and they will be instrumental in advancing research and scholarship disrupted by COVID-19. As we begin planning for the ramp-up of research at BU, there are new guidelines available for how graduate students and postdocs and their faculty mentors/advisors can navigate […]