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    NCURA’S 60th Annual Meeting

    May 29, 2018
    NCURA will hold its 60th Annual Meeting “Demonstrating Resilience and Advancing the Profession” August 5-8, 2018 in Washington, DC.Participation in the Annual Meeting offers the opportunity to network with Research Administrators who face many of the same day-to-day issues as you. The conference includes a wide variety of concurrent sessions as well as pre- and […]
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    NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) Section 889 Compliance (effective 2019/2020)

    March 1, 2021
    Read the full Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5515/text For a PDF version: https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ232/PLAW-115publ232.pdfPlease reach out to Diane Baldwin, AVP Sponsored Programs with any questions (dbaldwin@bu.edu; 617 353-4377).High Level Overview (March 2021) – communication sent to all PI’s and AdministratorsProhibitionsSection 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 prohibits:Federal agencies from entering into contracts, including sponsored research contracts, with […]
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    NEH Endowments for Advancing the Humanities – February 2026

    December 19, 2025
    $15 million in federal matching funds to support a 20-year endowment term to advance the humanities, focusing on Western civilization, American history and government, and civics. Apply or submit interest in possible future calls by Thursday, January 8 via InfoReady Review.
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    NEH Funding and Digital/Networked Scholarship (2015)

    October 17, 2015
    Featuring Vika Zafrin, Institutional Repository LibrarianThe past several decades have seen fundamental developments in humanities and social science scholarship, many of them involving computation and networked communication. Digital humanities has taken root as an area of research overlaying most humanities fields and residing partly at their intersections. Digital research methods and online scholarly communication have […]

  • NEIDL Researchers Discover New SARS-CoV-2 Weak Spot—Which Could Inspire Improved Vaccines

    January 11, 2023
    Nature publishes BU-led COVID study that made international headlines; scientists find viral protein called NSP6, not just spike, responsible for making Omicron less dangerous than past variants
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    NEW – Online Fundamentals of Research Administration Curriculum

    June 2, 2020
    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 CurriculumWhat is the online training?The “Fundamentals of Research Administration” curriculum is […]
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    New Ability to Search and Report Multiple Publications in xTRACT for Research Training Data Tables

    January 11, 2021
    When adding publications for a Research Training Dataset (RTD) for Participating Trainees in the xTRACT module, users will now be able to search and add multiple publications at once instead of one by one and select multiple publications to report from the search results. See the eRA notice for guidance on this new functionality which is designed to reduce […]
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    New Affinity Research Collaborative Focuses on COVID-19

    June 15, 2020
    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 it […]
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    New AI Program from BU Researchers Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s Disease

    June 25, 2024
    By analyzing speech patterns, machine learning model can say with a high degree of accuracy whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s-associated dementia within six years
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    New AI Software Could Make Diagnosing Dementia Easier and Faster for Doctors

    July 17, 2024
    BU researchers created an algorithm capable of pinpointing causes of cognitive decline, using only patient information collected by physicians

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