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  • Research on Tap: Addressing Health Inequities with a Health Economics Lens (2024)

    September 6, 2024
    From where we live and work to the education and income we receive, countless factors determine our health. These inequities aren’t random; they are rooted in the systems that govern our daily lives, including health care structures, employment markets, and public policies. Understanding how these drivers compound across individual, community, and societal levels and identifying […]

  • Research on Tap: AI and the Humanities (2025)

    January 13, 2025
    Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives, raising urgent questions about its implications for ethics, identity, and the health of our political and economic systems. At the same time, AI is opening new frontiers in humanities research—reshaping how we analyze complex texts, uncover historical insights, and approach critical fields like anthropology.At this Research […]
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    Research on Tap: AI for Life Sciences

    August 14, 2025
    Wednesday, October 15 | 4-6 PMKilachand Center Eichenbaum Room (Room 101)610 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215Advances in AI are impacting a wide range of scientific disciplines, including the life sciences. The emergence of large foundational models–including large language models and those trained on biological sequences–is unlocking new possibilities in synthetic biology, protein engineering, biomarker discovery, […]
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    Research on Tap: Air, Earth, and Water: Elements of Health and the Urban Environment (2015)

    October 15, 2015
    Hosted by Graham Wilson, Professor, Political Science, and Director, Initiative on Cities; and Katharine Lusk, Executive Director, Initiative on Cities.This session explored research currently conducted by faculty across the University who are studying cities from an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach, evaluating complex challenges from the perspective of law, environment, engineering, management, cultural studies, medicine, and […]
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    Research on Tap: Artificial Intelligence for Biomedicine and Healthcare (2022)

    November 9, 2022
    Faculty Hosts: Lei Tian, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; David Boas, Director, Neurophotonics Center; and Yannis Paschalidis, Director Hariri InstituteAdvances in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are driving a revolution in biomedical research and clinical healthcare. These methods include predictive health-analytics for modeling diseases with chronic conditions, neurodegenerative conditions, […]
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    Research on Tap: Broadening Participation in Computing (2023)

    April 18, 2023
    Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Diversity & Inclusion, and the Office of ResearchBroadening participation of historically underrepresented groups in computing and data sciences is an imperative recognized by leaders of academic institutions, industry, and the government. Related efforts aim to ensure that the research, solutions, and benefits emerging from these disciplines are […]
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    Research on Tap: BU and Africa (2024)

    January 2, 2024
    BU and Africa: Culture, Development, Health, Environment, and GovernanceSome are calling our times "the African Century" given the profound implications of the continent's demographic transitions for African peoples and the world at large. By 2050, 2.5 billion people, more than 25 percent of all of the world’s population, will live in Africa, a number on […]
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    Research on Tap: BU Research on a Sustainable Energy Future (2016)

    March 3, 2016
    Hosted by Peter Fox-Penner, Professor of the Practice, Questrom School of Business.As demonstrated by the recent Paris Climate Conference, global energy systems face a massive challenge in shifting away from unsustainable carbon-emitting fuels to sustainable sources, while serving the energy and development needs of a planet whose population will reach ten billion before the end […]
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    Research on Tap: Cancer & Microbiome (2021)

    February 4, 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 […]
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    Research on Tap: Challenges and Opportunities for an Aging Society: New Directions in Medicine, Health Care, and Social Policy (2018)

    February 27, 2018
    The aging of populations creates both challenges and opportunities for health care providers, policy makers, scientists, social service organizations, and older adults and their families. This event, hosted by Jonathan Woodson, Director, Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy; Larz Anderson Professor in Management and Professor of the Practice, Questrom; and Professor, Surgery, MED, and […]

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