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Photo: President Melissa Gilliam delivers her 2026 Annual Address to the BU Community

University News

President Melissa Gilliam Delivers Annual Address: “Let’s Seize” This Moment

October 9, 2026

Photo: David M. Center, MD (from left), Megan H. Bair-Merritt, MD, MSCE and Terry Keane, PhD pose for a photo on October 1, 2026. Photo by Mike Cohea

Translational Science

NIH Awards BU Clinical & Translational Science Institute $41 Million in New Funding

October 5, 2026

Photo: Sea of graduating students at Boston University's commencement

University News

Suggestions for 2027 BU Honorary Degrees Welcome

October 2, 2026

Photo: Maria (Masha) Kamenetska poses for a formal portrait surrounded by lab equipment

Accolades

BU Researcher Wins Moore Foundation Award to Push “Boundaries of Experimental Physics”

October 1, 2026

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University News

William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professorships Awarded to Five Senior Faculty

September 23, 2026

Photo: Melissa Gilliam and Yvette Cozier sit facing each other and converse in a warmly lit cafeteria filled with tables, chairs, and pendant lights.

Watch Now

Video: Leaders Among Us—President Gilliam in Conversation with Yvette Cozier

September 21, 2026

PHOTO: Ed Damiano of Beta Bionics has silvery hair wearing a black t-shirt in a lab office. He's leaning on is left side against a wall with a welcoming casual smile. Photo by Cydney Scott Boston University Photography

Research News

Brink Bites: Major Grant Advances BU Imaging Facilities; BU-Developed Invention Funds Endowed Professorship

September 18, 2026

Photo: A group portrait of three smiling adults standing in a laboratory. On the left, a person wearing glasses and a blue-and-white checkered shirt stands beside a large white microscope. In the center, a person with dark hair wears a white shirt with a dark navy collar and cuffs. On the right, a person with shoulder-length light brown hair wears a gray blouse and jewelry. Laboratory equipment, countertops, containers, notes, and a glass-fronted instrument cabinet fill the background.

Accolades

BU Ignition Award Winners’ Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robots

September 15, 2026

Photo: Three adults pose in a room with bookshelves, plants, and an open laptop on a white table.

Autism

New Video Game Could Help Reveal How People with Autism Perceive the World

September 11, 2026

Photo: Wheelock professors Nathan Jones (clockwise from left), Marcus Winters, Jo King, and Elizabeth Bettini.

Special Education

Helping Create Special Education Policies to Benefit Students and Teachers

September 8, 2026

The Eaton Fire in California, January 2025, burns in Sierra Madre. Firefighters battled a fast-moving fire that erupted on Eaton in Sierra Madre, spreading to over 1,000 acres. The blaze, which began to damage homes, forced thousands to evacuate and left some residents abandoning cars. Photo by Ringo Chiu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images

Wildfire

Wildfire Has Devastated California, Texas, and Beyond. A BU Scientist is Helping Forests Recover

August 31, 2026

Photo: Formal portrait of Pria Anand

Faculty

Opening Up the World of Writing to Boston University’s Medical Campus Faculty

August 27, 2026

Photo: Man looks into a microscope in a lab setting

Convergent Research

Boston University Announces New Convergent Research Programs

August 12, 2026

Photo: A glimpse inside the Jawāhir al-Maʿānī (Jewels of Meanings). جواهرالمعاني, British Library, EAP1430/17/2, digitized by Boston University

Ajami

Fragile Manuscripts Hold Hundreds of Years of African and Islamic History

August 10, 2026

Student Life

BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Matches Mentees & Mentors

August 3, 2026

Rebecca Alssid, with Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11), worked at BU for 44 years before retiring in 2015. She was instrumental in recruiting Pépin and Julia Child (Hon.’76) to teach at Boston University. Photo by Vernon Doucett

Tributes

Remembering Rebecca Alssid, Howard Leibowitz, Adrianne Rogers, and N. Paul Rosman

July 30, 2026

Brain Aging

BU-Led Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program Receives $31.5 Million Funding Renewal

July 28, 2026

Cloud Labs

NSF Awards Boston University $20 Million to Help Create National “Cloud Lab” Network

July 23, 2026

Elections

What Motivates Black Women Voters?

July 20, 2026

Health & Medicine

Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine’s Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Marks 25th anniversary

July 15, 2026

Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine’s Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Marks 25th anniversary