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Awards

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Accolades

BU’s Lead Plumber Is Best in the Country. And Tops at HVAC, Too

December 5, 2023

Photo: Bill Banfield, A Black man short graying hair wearing red glasses, a black long sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled up to his elbows, and black pants, poses as he holds his guitar under one arm. He stands at the exterior of a Spanish style building deck as the sun shines on him.

Accolades

Jazzman Bill Banfield Receives President’s Call to Service Award

November 28, 2023

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Accolades

Music Journalist, and BU Alum, Makes Inaugural Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Boston List

November 14, 2023

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Performance Testing

A Saliva Test for Soldiers, Athletes, and Others Aims to Predict Performance

October 30, 2023

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MacArthur Fellowship

BU Ecologist Lucy Hutyra Wins a 2023 MacArthur “Genius Grant”

October 4, 2023

Photo: Group photo of the 2023 Kilachand Fund Award winners. Posing from left to right are: Brian Clearly, Hadi Nia, Jospeh Mizgerd, and Michael Economo. Four men smile and pose together in a brightly lit room.

Kilachand Awards

Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects

October 3, 2023

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Alumni Weekend

Make the Most of a Packed Alumni Weekend 2023 with These Events

September 20, 2023

Photo: Aerial shot of Boston University's campus during sunset. An orange glow is shown on the large campus highlighting campus buildings like Kilachand.

Accolades

BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More

September 19, 2023

Accolades

Career Development Professorships for Promising Scholars Awarded to Five BU Junior Faculty

September 13, 2023

Photo: Large overhead shot of 2023's Menino Scholarship and ComCommunity Service Award recipients. Students in business casual attire pose on a large set of stairs together. Also pictured are interim President Ken Freeman.

Accolades

BU Honors 80 Boston Public Schools Scholarship Recipients at Annual Ceremony

September 5, 2023

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Accolades

BU Dark Matter Researcher Wins Award to Drive “Extraordinary Contributions” to Experimental Physics

August 23, 2023

Photo: Two researchers wearing blue surgical masks and purple gloves, look closely at an excised bovine cartilage specimen.

Osteoarthritis

New Noninvasive Light-Based Device Could Help Diagnose Osteoarthritis Early

August 21, 2023

Photo: Chuanfei Dong, a Southeast Asian man wearing glasses and a dark blue-gray collared shirt, smiles and poses next to a a wall hanging explaining the workings of a planet.

Accolades

BU Astronomer Wins Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

August 17, 2023

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LGBTQ+ Health

BU’s Carl Streed Is Recognized by the American Medical Association for Outstanding LGBTQ+ Healthcare

July 10, 2023

Collage: Headshots of NSF CAREER Award winners. From top to bottom, left to right: Jessica Simes, Michael Economo, Renato Mancuso, Hadi Nia, and Alyssa Pierson.

CAREER Awards

BU’s 5 NSF Grant Winners Are Changing Conversations in Robotics, Computing, Mass Incarceration, Neurology, and More

June 23, 2023

Photo: A group of people pose in font of a building with glass doors. Pictured (from left): Saylor Williams, Manpreet Singh (GRS’24), Gloria Waters, Rebecca Pearl-Martinez, Golden (CAMED’27); Angie Serrano, a BU medical school assistant professor of vascular biology; Dennis Carlberg, and Greg Miller.

Sustainability

How to Make Research Labs More Sustainable

June 20, 2023

Photo: College of Engineering professors (from left) Rabia Yazicigil, a white woman with short curly hair and wearing a black blouse, oversized blue blazer, and black pants, Mo Khalil, A tan man wearing glasses, brown sweater, and black pants, and Doug Densmore, a light-skinned Black man wearing a long sleeve collared grey shirt and black pants in a lab. Yazicigil and Mo Khalil look to Densmore as he talks and gesticulates.

Biomanufacturing

Turning Trash into Medicines, Machine Oils, Cosmetics, and More

June 15, 2023

Photo of Mark Grinstaff, a middle-aged white man with glasses who wears a button-down shirt with a gradient, squiggly line pattern that fades from green and blue to red and pink. He smiles as he stands and leans against a cluttered lab table.

Accolades

Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BU’s Mark Grinstaff

June 13, 2023

Accolades

Sky High—ENG Terriers Win NASA Student Competition on Clean Aviation Energy

June 9, 2023

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Accolades

Students Create Ads for Chobani, Celebrity Cruises, and More

June 8, 2023

Students Create Ads for Chobani, Celebrity Cruises, and More