Boston University

Research

Allison Borges, Heather Murray, Boston University BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program UROP, shame research

Mental Health

Dealing with Shame

February 4, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, assistant professor lead researcher Nicole Glazer, exercise routines, short activity bursts benefits, research

Exercise

Lazy Person’s Guide to Exercise

January 31, 2013

Boston University BU, professors, Mark Grinstaff, Theodore Moustakas, Barbara Gilchrest, James Collins, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, biomedical engineer, chemistry, National Academy of Inventors

University News

National Academy of Inventors Elects Four BU Profs

January 30, 2013

Boston University BU, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences GRS, Gail Carpenter, professor of cognitive and neural systems and mathematics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow IEEE

Research

Gail Carpenter Named IEEE Fellow

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, ecology research, faculty Robinson "Wally" Fulweiler, coastal ecology research, estuary sediment, Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, nitrogen global impact

Ecology

Fulweiler’s Message in a Bottle

January 28, 2013

Boston University BU, faculty assistant professor Jennifer Green, School of Education SED, special education, teenage suicide prevention, dialectic behavior therapy, personality disorders, reduce self endangering behaviors

Research

Preventing Teenage Suicide

January 28, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, biology, Richard Primack, flowers bloom Walden Pond, climate change evidence

Faculty

Early Spring Flowering Sets Record

January 25, 2013

Boston University BU, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, research political analysis impact of global warming climate change, sustainability

Sustainability

New Pardee Center Director Named

January 24, 2013

Boston University BU, Sargent College SAR, director Kim Mueser, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, occupational therapy, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Health & Medicine

Working for the Underdog

January 23, 2013

Boston University BU, school of medicine MED associate professor, chief of computational biomedicine, Avrum Spira, Rebecca Kusko, rise in lung cancer incidence nonsmokers

Research

Never Smoked. Lived Right. Died of Lung Cancer.

January 22, 2013

Corey R J Stephenson, assistant professor of chemistry, Boston University College of Arts and Science, Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry, leukemia cells, antibiotic resistant bacteria

Science & Technology

CAS Prof Wins Novartis Award

January 14, 2013

Boston University BU, Alistair Cooke, Masterpiece Theatre, Letter from America, manuscript archive BU’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center HGARC, BBC BU collaboration

Immigration

Emmy-Winning Immigrant’s Take On America

January 14, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Program, Jennifer Schlezinger, toxic contaminants research, 11 million dollar award

Science & Technology

SPH Superfund Program Secures $11 Million from NIH

January 11, 2013

Boston University BU, faculty associate professor Kimberly Howard, School of Education SED, literacy and language, career development.

Research

When I Grow Up

January 7, 2013

LGB lesbian, gay, and bisexual cancer survivors in cancer clinical trials, Jennifer Jabson, Boston University BU School of Public Health SPH researcher

Science & Technology

LGB Cancer Survivors Make Good Use of Clinical Trials

December 17, 2012

mercury contaminated fish, Effects of eating fish while pregnant, Attention Defecit Disorder in children, Sharon Sagiv, Boston University School of Public Health, Susan Korrick, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Food & Dining

Pros and Cons of Eating Fish While Pregnant

December 14, 2012

Willpath mobile smartphone app, healthy eating lifestyle, Daniel Imler, Boston University School of Public Health SPH

Life Sciences

Wealth from Willpath

December 14, 2012

Boston University BU alumni Justin McClellan, School of Engineering ENG, Aurora Flight Sciences Research and Development Center Cambridge Mass, aerospace engineer, planet efficiency, global climate change precrisis control, National Geographic Channel special Earth Overhaul

Strategy & Innovation

Reengineering the Atmosphere

December 11, 2012

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS professor Nathan Philips research, urban pipeline leaks, methan leaks Boston,

Sustainability

Boston’s Street-Level Gas Leaks: 3,300-Plus

December 7, 2012

Curiosity rover on planet Mars, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Engineering

Safe Driving on Mars

December 5, 2012

Safe Driving on Mars