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  • Research on Tap: China and the World (2023)

    February 27, 2023
    Co-sponsored by the Global Development Policy Center and the Center for the Study of AsiaChina has the world’s largest population, the world’s second largest economy, and is the third largest country in size. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is now also shaping trade and finance at the global level. Few nations have the same vast […]
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    Research on Tap: Climate Change & Health: Understanding and Reducing Impacts (2022)

    January 26, 2022
    Continued climate change threatens nearly every aspect of the way we live, move, work, and play. Across the Boston University campus, researchers are working to better understand how climate hazards such as air pollution, heat, hurricanes, and wildfires are affecting our health. Our collective goal is to develop the evidence needed to foster communities that […]
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    Research on Tap: Climate Change and Clean Energy (2024)

    August 30, 2024
    Fossil fuels have provided major benefits to populations in affordability and well-being but also created large impacts on the health of people and the planet. In the face of climate change, new and ongoing research aims to understand the interconnectedness of energy, society, and the environment and to develop new technologies and policies that drive […]

  • Research on Tap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases (2024)

    January 19, 2024
    Climate change and associated aberrant weather patterns are responsible for a wide array of health issues, posing an urgent need for research to guide evidence-based public health policy. While interdisciplinary connections have been steadily evolving among the many researchers studying related topics across BU schools and colleges, the growing threat of emerging infectious diseases during […]
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    Research on Tap: Coastal Cities, People, and Waterways (2019)

    February 4, 2019
    Hosted by Tony Janetos, Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future; and Professor, Earth & Environment, CASThe world’s river basins and coastal cities are directly influenced by the people who live, work, and play on the water and in the surrounding landscapes. This session will feature brief presentations by BU […]
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    Research on Tap: Combatting Disease, Pursuing Cures: Infectious Diseases Research at BU (2015)

    November 11, 2015
    Hosted by Ronald Corley, Professor and Chair, Microbiology, and Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).This event featured BU infectious disease experts at the forefront of research of illnesses that are – or have the potential to become – major public health concerns and presented the cutting edge diagnostics, vaccines, and treatments these faculty are […]
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    Research on Tap: Connecting Tissues and Investigators: Fibrosis in Health and Disease (2017)

    December 6, 2017
    Understanding and controlling fibrosis, whether as an integral part of the extracellular matrix or evoked during pathology, requires interdisciplinary approaches and expertise. This Research on Tap, hosted by Katya Ravid, Professor, Medicine and Biochemistry, School of Medicine; and Director, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office (IBRO), featured researchers who aim to develop a comprehensive interdisciplinary program that […]
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    Research on Tap: Creative Research (2018)

    October 7, 2018
    Standard research is about innovative thinking and practice, about making and testing assumptions, performing, proposing, speculating, asking questions and paving the way for new questions or propositions to be made next time. It is about the illumination of new knowledge around an identifiable theme and question, engaging with the known in new ways, constructing, proposing […]
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    Research on Tap: Current Research on Autism at Boston University: From Cells to Society (2018)

    November 1, 2018
    Hosted by Helen Tager-Flusberg, Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences, CAS, and Director, Center for Autism Research ExcellenceIn the last two decades rates of autism diagnoses have risen exponentially. Scientists at Boston University were at the forefront of research into the pathophysiology of this enigmatic neurodevelopmental disorder even before the current wave of interest. Now, work […]
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    Research on Tap: Data Science for Racial Equity (2021)

    November 30, 2021
    Faculty Hosts: Azer Bestavros, Associate Provost, Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, and Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder, Center for Antiracist ResearchThe need for research that exposes racist policy implications and informs policy makers and the public on antiracist alternatives could not be more urgent. Data science can be the window through which we […]

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