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    • Government & Law
    • Religion

    Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs

    Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) brings together a multi-disciplinary community of scholars to encourage and support research on the role of religion in public affairs. 
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    • Education

    Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning, Center for

    The Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning (CITL) recognizes that undergraduate students learn best when they reflect upon how and not just what they are learning, when they have excellent teachers, and when they view learning as a life-long process. Funded initially with a $1 million gift by Gary Villella to help sustain the interdisciplinary […]
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    • Government & Law
    • History
    • Social Science

    International History Institute

    The International History Institute (IHI) at Boston University was founded in 1999 to promote the importance of history in understanding international cultural, economic, political, and military affairs. It supports interdisciplinary faculty research and teaching and promotes public conversation through open participation in its conferences, lectures, seminars, colloquia and film series.
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    • Education
    • Linguistics & Language Sciences
    • Social Science

    Language Acquisition & Visual Attention Lab

    The Language Acquisition & Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab studies the relationship between language and visual attention in deaf and hearing individuals.
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    • Linguistics & Language Sciences

    Language Acquisition and Visual Attention Lab

    The Language Acquisition and Visual Attention Lab. We study the relationship between language and visual attention in deaf and hearing individuals. Using a range of approaches, from observations of parents and children interacting to experimental eye-tracking studies, we ask how deaf children learning American Sign Language learn to perceive both language and information about the […]
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    • Linguistics & Language Sciences

    LEX Lab

    The Lex Lab conducts research investigating how early language experience affects vocabulary acquisition and processing in American Sign Language. One of the primary projects is ASL-LEX, a database funded by NSF that documents the structure of the American Sign Language lexicon.
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    • Medicine
    • Neuroscience
    • Psychiatry & Psychology

    Memory Disorders Research Center

    The Memory Research Center (MDRC) at Boston University's Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine was established in 1989 by Dr. Laird Cermak to study a broad spectrum of memory disorders. The MDRC is one of a handful of national research centers dedicated to the study of non-progressive memory loss. 
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    • Engineering
    • Materials Sciences
    • Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Genetics
    • Photonics
    • Physics

    Nanotechnology Innovation Center

    The Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center (BUnano) is an interdisciplinary collaborative research center that fosters research and education in nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology—addressing challenges in medicine, manufacturing, and energy. The center includes 62 BU faculty from 10 departments, spanning the College of Engineering, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Medicine.
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    • Education
    • Linguistics & Language Sciences
    • Literature

    National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL)

    The National Center on Improving Literacy increases access to, and use of, evidence-based approaches to screen, identify, and teach students with literacy-related disabilities, including dyslexia.
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    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Engineering
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Genetics

    National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories

    At Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), microbiologists, virologists, and other scientists have dropped their routine research projects to focus on the critical search for vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world. 
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