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BU researchers (from left) Elizabeth Bettini, Zeba Wunderlich, and Michelle Sander

BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists

February 6, 2025

White House’s presidential award recognizes BU researchers studying special education, lasers, and genes and DNA.

BU Sloan Fellowship Winner Mark Bun on Data Privacy, Embracing Failure, Baking Cakes

April 6, 2022

CAS assistant professor of sociology Celeste Curington and students Nelissa Mascary-Timothee and Sara Diaz

BU Sociologist and Her Students Train as Doulas to Help Inform Research on Pregnancy and Childbirth

April 11, 2025

Celeste Curington argues these care workers play an important advocacy role, especially in BIPOC communities where “birth is literally a battle.”

Vladimir Putin and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill

BU Student Researched How Russian Religion Fuels War in Ukraine

December 5, 2024

Undergraduate project catalogued Vladimir Putin’s use of iconography to support invasion.

Emma Daily and Pamela Templer at the United Nations Conference of the Parties international climate summit

BU Students Find Hope at COP29 UN Climate Summit

January 21, 2025

CAS’ Pamela Templer, Climate Leaders Academy students attended the conference in Baku.

Janetos Climate Action Prize winners Primah Muwanga and Celine Chen with faculty advisor Thomas Little

BU Students Win Janetos Climate Action Prize for Uncovering Air Quality Gaps Between Old and New Campus Buildings

May 23, 2025

Using student-designed, low-cost sensors, the team hopes to help improve classroom air quality

BU Study Finds Increased Rates of Burnout in LGBTQ+ Physicians

February 26, 2025

More physicians are experiencing lower professional fulfillment, potentially causing them to leave their careers.

BU Study Finds Longer Ice Hockey Careers Increase Risk of CTE

December 9, 2024

Largest study of its kind also found 18 of 19 NHL players whose brains were studied had the neurodegenerative disease.

BU Study Finds Massachusetts Could See Drastic, Cascading Economic Downturn

May 9, 2025

Questrom’s Mark Williams says a combination of tariff hikes, federal funding cuts, and crackdown on immigration could cost state billions in lost growth.

A women looking at her nose reconstruction surgery bandages, through her phone camera

BU Study Shows a Correlation between Social Media Use and Desire for Cosmetic Procedures

May 8, 2024

The more time you spend on image-led social media, like Instagram and Snapchat, the more likely you are to want to alter your appearance