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Awards

Three BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers

February 4, 2025

Awards

Why Do Urban Trees Grow Faster than Rural Ones?

January 29, 2025

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Expert Take

Americans Expect Social Media Content Moderation

January 28, 2025

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Campus Life

Tell Us Your Favorite FitRec Story, for the 20th Anniversary Celebration

January 24, 2025

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University News

BU Invites Faculty, Staff, Trustees to Submit Honorary Degree Nominations

January 16, 2025

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STAFF

Ceramics, Cake, and Public Service Law: Meet Kim Wong

January 15, 2025

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LA Wildfires

In the Wake of LA Fires, What Does the US Need to Do to Prepare for Future Natural Disasters?

January 14, 2025

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Photonics

What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure?

January 8, 2025

Research

Best of The Brink 2024: 10 Inspiring Inventions and Discoveries—All from BU Researchers

December 13, 2024

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Photonics

Could Twisting Beams of Light Make the Internet Faster—and Greener?

December 10, 2024

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CTE and Ice Hockey

BU Study Finds Longer Ice Hockey Careers Increase Risk of CTE

December 6, 2024

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Faculty

Remembering CFA’s Murray Lefkowitz, CAS’ Jelle Atema and John Snyder

December 3, 2024

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Research News

Brink Bites: Finding Love Online and Preserving Black American Sign Language

November 27, 2024

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Politics

Trump Might Govern as an Authoritarian. Is That What His Voters Want?

November 27, 2024

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Science & Technology

Tired of Remembering All Those Passwords? Help May Be in Sight

November 19, 2024

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Science & Technology

Women Have Been Shut Out of Computer and Data Science. BU Is Opening the Door

November 15, 2024

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Kilachand Awards

2024 Kilachand Fund Awards Boost Projects Building Antivirus Platform, Improving Brain Imaging, and Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

November 13, 2024

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Forced Displacement

BU Center on Forced Displacement Magazine Highlights Plight of Millions Compelled to Flee Their Homes

November 12, 2024

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Theatre

Yo-EL Cassell’s Students Discover the J.O.Y. in Movement

November 8, 2024

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Child Stars

Liam Payne’s Death Raises Questions about Teenage Stardom

November 7, 2024

Liam Payne’s Death Raises Questions about Teenage Stardom