Brink Bites: BU Health Researchers Win Major NIH Grants; BU Device Named Among Time’s Best Inventions of 2025
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including big funding wins, opposition to deepfakes, and studying LGBTQ+ suicide risk factors
Mapping Out Brain Studies, Beyond the Lab
A society of neuroscience experts are creating a dedicated hub of resources for fNIRS research.
Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers
Training and mentorship experience gives first-generation and low-income college students a taste of lab work—but needs new funding to continue.
This Smarter Sound Shield Blocks More Noise—Without Blocking Air
Building on their 2019 breakthrough, researchers unveil a new ultra-open metamaterial that silences a broader range of noise while preserving ventilation.
Brink Bites: Studying Cigarette Restrictions, the Life of a Famed Poet, and Shifting Attitudes Toward Capitalism
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including an exploration of views on economic systems, research on tobacco price minimums, and support for student research.
Three BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers
White House’s presidential award recognizes BU researchers studying special education, lasers, and genes and DNA.
Brink Bites: BMI Objections, Studying UFOs, and Alcohol’s Impact on College Students
Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including a study of drinking harms, rethinking obesity diagnoses, and researchers on film.
We Have Liftoff: BU Telescope Heads for the Moon
NASA’s Blue Ghost moon lander, carrying a BU-created X-ray telescope, blasts off into space.
Bionic Pancreas Company Cofounded by BU Researcher Hits the Nasdaq Stock Market
Another major milestone for Beta Bionics and its iLet device for people with type 1 diabetes that was born in engineer Ed Damiano’s lab.
NASA to Blast BU Telescope to the Moon in Historic First
LEXI (Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager) will be deployed and operate from the lunar surface this month, part of the first set of landers from the United States traveling to the moon in almost 50 years.