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Innovation

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Crime Scene Science

Video: Updating the Science of Bloodstain Analysis and Forensics

October 20, 2023

Innovation

Student Entrepreneurs: Head to IDEA Con Tomorrow

October 13, 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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University News

Six Tips for Getting the Most out of Blackboard Ally

September 21, 2023

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Accolades

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

September 19, 2023

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Innovation

Questrom Student Creates Stuffed Animals and Books to Teach Kids about Sustainability

September 8, 2023

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University News

BU Forms AI Task Force

September 8, 2023

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Accolades

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

August 23, 2023

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Osteoarthritis

New Noninvasive Light-Based Device Could Help Diagnose Osteoarthritis Early

August 21, 2023

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Data Sciences

Destination Data

August 11, 2023

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Journalism & Media

Blazing Boston’s Innovation Trail

August 8, 2023

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COVID-19

After a Year in the White House, BU Infectious Diseases Expert Shares Lessons about Pandemic Response

August 1, 2023

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Entrepreneurship

My Big Idea: A Better Way to Move into College—or Anywhere, for That Matter

July 26, 2023

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Innovation

BU Alums Create a More Hygienic Toilet Seat

July 10, 2023

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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

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Accolades

Royal Society of Chemistry Honors BU’s Mark Grinstaff

June 13, 2023

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AI and Hypertension

New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension

June 6, 2023

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Bionic Pancreas

FDA Clears Bionic Pancreas Developed in BU Lab for People with Type 1 Diabetes

May 22, 2023

FDA Clears Bionic Pancreas Developed in BU Lab for People with Type 1 Diabetes