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Brink Bites: Studying Cigarette Restrictions, the Life of a Famed Poet, and Shifting Attitudes Toward Capitalism

March 4, 2025

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.

Brink Bites: Tracking Endangered Frogs, Why Concentration Wanders, Studying Kids’ Beliefs

May 6, 2025

Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including an AI system for detecting frog calls, a study of disrupted attention, and a project to examine children’s belief formation.

Illustration of circuits shaped like a brain on a stylized circuit board

Brink Bites: Using AI to Spot Alzheimer’s; NIH Backs BU COPD research

August 27, 2025

Other research news, stories, and tidbits from around BU, including projects using AI to track Alzheimer’s and diagnose lung disease

Broadening Participation in STEM (2018)

April 3, 2018

Hosted by Crystal Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion, this Research on Tap highlighted the exciting array of initiatives and scholarship taking place across BU’s Charles River and Medical Campuses that explicitly seek to increase embodied diversity, improve department/school climate and culture, develop innovative pedagogical interventions, and create stronger pathways for people traditionally underrepresented […]

Broadway Singers, a Nazi Sympathizer, and the Doomed Flight of the Yankee Clipper

September 7, 2023

Americans in a World at War by BU historian Brooke L. Blower shines new light on America before and during World War II through the disparate passengers of a 1943 Pan Am flight

BU Advisory Council for Research Administration Call for Council Members Applications Due July 19, 2024

July 12, 2024

Research administration plays a crucial role in ensuring that scientific endeavors are conducted efficiently, ethically, and in accordance with Institutional and Sponsor regulations. Behind every groundbreaking discovery or innovation, there is often a team of dedicated professionals managing the administrative aspects of research. Boston University Advisory Council for Research Administration is issuing a call for […]

BU Advisory Council for Research Administration Calls for Council Members

June 24, 2024

Research administration plays a crucial role in ensuring that scientific endeavors are conducted efficiently, ethically, and in accordance with Institutional and Sponsor regulations. Behind every groundbreaking discovery or innovation, there is often a team of dedicated professionals managing the administrative aspects of research. Boston University Advisory Council for Research Administration is issuing a call for […]

BU announces 2018 Strategic Communications Series for faculty, researchers

August 16, 2018

At Boston University, we believe communication is vital to scientific endeavors, and we want to empower our faculty and community to communicate in effective, compelling, and accessible ways.Boston University’s Research Office, in collaboration with Marketing & Communications, is continuing its Strategic Communications Series in the fall and spring semesters with an exciting line up of […]

BU aphasia researchers Elizabeth Hoover, Jerry Kaplan and Swathi Kiran

BU Aphasia Program Gives Patients Their Voice Back

April 8, 2025

Treatments, informed by research, make BU and Sargent College a leader in combating the neurological disorder.

BU ASC Vivarium Operational Changes effective Monday 3/23/2020

March 19, 2020

Dear Researcher,To proactively manage our animal colonies and resources under the current and predicted restrictions posed by COVID-19, ASC is implementing the following changes within our vivaria effective Monday 3/23/2020:Reduced PPE in rodent areas: Working with EHS, ASC has created a plan to reduce the use of face masks, hairnets, and jumpsuits inside our vivaria. These […]