What Ancient Pottery Can Teach Us About Everyday Lives in the Time of Jesus and Herod the Great
BU archaeologist Andrea Berlin receives a lifetime achievement award.
Best of BU’s 2024 Science and Research
COVID (still) and immigration draw the most attention, but scientists, researchers, students and more were also captivated by superagers sharing their secrets of living to 100 and a BU-developed device to help detect skin cancer.
10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers
Highlights from a year of BU research, from an AI program that can predict Alzheimer’s disease to an ancient Egyptian treasure.
Brink Bites: Finding Love Online and Preserving Black American Sign Language
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including navigating dating apps, expanding sign language research, and awards from Time and the White House.
Women’s Health Is Chronically Understudied, But These Engineers Are Charging Forward
Catherine M. Klapperich and Joyce Y. Wong are pioneering research into reproductive health issues, from uterine fibroids to preeclampsia to hormone monitoring.
BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with NIH Grant
National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) will use $7.5 million to update facilities and increase research capacity.
2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance
Interdisciplinary research fund was established to tackle biggest challenges in the life sciences.
Global Biopharma Giant GSK and BU Announce Collaboration to Pioneer New Lung Disease Treatments
Linkup includes almost $7.5 million in support to drive research into pulmonary fibrosis, a disease with no existing cure
BU Biomedical Engineer Wins a 2024 National Institutes of Health Director’s Transformative Research Award
Honor for Alexander A. Green will support high-risk project that could lead to improved cancer treatments and other therapies
Career Development Professorships Awarded to Five BU Researchers
This year’s recipients are rising stars in the study of Latin American literature, molecular and cellular processes, religious history, chemistry, and physics-inspired computing