Coming Full Circle: Former BU Women’s Soccer Player Is Now Helping Injured Terrier Athletes

BU athletic trainer Pietra Sweeney (Sargent’19,’21) was inspired by the athletic trainers who helped her at BU.

A “Game-Changing” New Drug for Schizophrenia?

Kim Mueser and Dan Fulford weigh in on the recent FDA approval of Cobenfy, a novel medication for treating schizophrenia.

Artificial Intelligence–Powered Games Could Motivate Kids with Occupational Therapy

Karen Jacobs is helping test a new gaming platform that occupational therapists could use to better deliver care to children.

New Frontiers in Digital Health

From apps to AI, sophisticated tools are helping Sargent faculty expand research and treatment opportunities

Partnership Trains Undergrads to Improve Patient Mobility at BMC

Kathleen Morgan Researches the Connection Between Brain & Cardiovascular Diseases

BU’s Hearing Research Center Has a New Home at Sargent

Hearing Research Center faculty are studying every step in the auditory pathway

Words Apart

Kim Crespo studies how being bilingual affects cognitive and language development

Providers Prescribe Arts and Culture as a Form of Health Care

The Center for Neurorehabilitation is partnering with Art Pharmacy to prescribe the arts as a form of health care for patients with Parkinson’s.

Being Open about LGBTQ+ Identities in the Classroom Creates Positive Learning Environments

Three LGBTQ+ professors share their experiences “queering the classroom” in ways that students embrace

Sargent Dean Emeritus Gloria Waters named BU’s New Provost

Waters, professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences and VP for research, will assume the role July 1.

Office Artifacts: Roz Abukasis

The academic counselor has a menagerie of lions in her office, a nod to the Wizard of Oz.

National Science Foundation News: Revolutionary Robotics

NSF highlights this interdisciplinary research collaboration to help Parkinson's patients walk faster and further without freezing.

Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports

Marcel Awori (Sargent’24) sponsors Kenyan youth basketball team and league with weekly Sargent stipends

Providing Better Support to Disabled Survivors

OTD students present best practices at annual meeting of New York sexual violence counselors and survivor advocates