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Research on Tap: Improving Early Childhood Well-Being Locally & Globally (2021)
Faculty Hosts: Dina Castro, Director, BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being, and Ruth Paris, Associate Director for Research, BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being Investments in the development of young children benefit the social and economic vitality of every society. The new BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being works to address adverse conditions faced by children and families, here […]
Research on Tap: Migration: How Movement in the World Shapes Populations and Population Health (2021)
Hosted by Sandro Galea, Dean, School of Public Health Population migration is among the central catalysts shaping the demography of the world around us, a trend likely to accelerate in the coming years. Together with population aging and urbanization, the movement of people within countries and across international borders is rapidly coming to define the […]
Research on Tap: Pandemic Preparedness and Response (2021)
Faculty Host: Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Founding Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research; Associate Director, NEIDL; Associate Professor, School of Medicine As the world continues to battle COVID and its variants, researchers and policy makers are already preparing for the next pandemic. Climate change, population growth, economic and ecological injustice, and microbial evolution […]
Research on Tap: Cancer & Microbiome (2021)
Hosted by Evan Johnson, Associate Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics and Daniel Segrè, Professor of Biology, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Engineering Microbial communities that live in and on the human body play a vital role in health and disease, which includes significant systems-level cross-talk and interaction between microbial and host pathways. In particular, the microbiome has […]
Research on Tap: Eliminating Health Disparities: Society & Biomedicine (2021)
According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced social or economic obstacles to health based on their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic-status, or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion. Understanding and eliminating health disparities demands research on the causes of these health […]
Research on Tap: Initiative on Forced Displacement: Research, Pedagogy, Engagement, and Ethical Impact (2020)
Faculty Hosts: Carrie Preston & Muhammad Zaman Over 70 million people are currently forcibly displaced by wars and persecution, more than ever previously recorded. Most of these displaced individuals come from low income countries and are forced to flee to neighboring countries that are ill-equipped to provide for them, leading to massive challenges for displaced […]
Come Together, Right Now: Convergence & Collaboration Around Cloud Computing, Data Security, and AI (2020)
Hosted by the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering We are producing ever-increasing quantities of data. These data are connected to many of the most fundamental and important challenges facing society. Yet without thoughtful collaboration and intentional strategies for convergence, data remains siloed from related data and from the increasingly […]
Research on Tap: Emerging Scholarship on Racism & Antiracism (2020)
BU faculty from across disciplines will share research that investigates racism, antiracism, racial inequity, and racial injustice. This session was part of A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles. View program here. View Slides View Video
Research on Tap: Innovations in Brain Research from the Center for Systems Neuroscience (2020)
Faculty Host: Michael Hasselmo This Research On Tap event will present a range of exciting and innovative research from faculty at Boston University’s Center for Systems Neuroscience addressing how neural circuits mediate behavior. Talks will share results from cutting-edge research using a range of techniques that include imaging of activity in different areas of the human […]
Industry on Tap: Collaborations Advancing Research (2020)
Hosted by BU Industry Engagement As public funding for academic research declines and industry places more emphasis on product development over research, new collaboration models are emerging to fill in the gaps. In this special edition of Research on Tap, BU researchers will share how they have worked with industry in different ways to further their […]