Boston University

Government & Law

Vivien Schmidt

International Relations

Professor Vivien Schmidt Awarded Guggenheim

April 27, 2018

Veronika Wirtz, a School of Public Health (SPH) associate professor of global health, and Muhammad Zaman, a College of Engineering (ENG) professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University

Global Health

The Problem of Poor-Quality Medicine

April 25, 2018

Real and counterfeit Viagra pills side by side. Real Viagra is on the right.

Global Health

Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem

April 11, 2018

prescription opioid Oxycodone, also known as Oxycontin

Public Policy

BU Expert: Trump Opioid Plan a Dud

March 28, 2018

American steel industry

Government & Law

BU Economist Faults Trump for Steel, Aluminum Tariffs

March 23, 2018

cattle and trees illustration

Economics

Farmers and Forests

February 9, 2018

group sitting and waiting

Government & Law

Work Requirements + Medicaid = Bad Medicine

February 6, 2018

A child holds a protest sign

Public Policy

Misstatement of the Union: What Trump Got Wrong on Immigration

February 1, 2018

Boston Cityscape

Public Policy

Leaders of US Cities Worried about Lack of Affordable Housing

January 24, 2018

Graphic illustration symbolizing the cost of waging modern warfare

Government & Law

Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion

November 16, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

man carrying a concealed firearm

Public Policy

SPH Study: Higher Homicide Rates Tied to More Permissive Laws

October 20, 2017

Business & Social Sciences

Immigrant Stars “Power” Significant Startups

October 11, 2017

bad medicine

Global Health

Bad Medicine

August 8, 2017

Attendees hold a Confederate Flag during the Florida Southern Pride Ride parade.

Government & Law

The Confederate Flag Symbolizes…What?

June 22, 2017

Social Sciences

How to Live in a Divided Nation

May 22, 2017

Pnina Lahav's work is considered foundational in several fields, including women’s rights, freedom of expression, and judicial biography.

Government & Law

Pnina Lahav Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

May 12, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

piles of coal at a coal depot

Climate Change

Trump Slams Brakes on Obama’s Climate Plan

March 29, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget