Boston University

Research

Jonathan Appavoo, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Ellen Grant, Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, big data, cloud computing, medicine, research

Computational Science

Medicine in the Cloud

February 28, 2013

Boston University BU, sequestration, research budget, congress economy spending

Research

Getting Ready for Sequestration

February 28, 2013

Kei Koizumi, science funding adviser to President of the United States Barack Obama, federal funding research

Research

Fighting for Federal Funding of Science

February 27, 2013

underaged drinking, alcohol brands, beer brands

University News

New Study: Alcohol Brands Underage Drinkers Prefer

February 26, 2013

Gulf War Illness, Gulf War Syndrome, Kim Sullivan, Boston University School of Public Health SPH

Research

Closing in on a Medical Mystery

February 19, 2013

Howard Eichenbaum, professor of psychology, Boston University, memory, dementia

Science & Technology

BU Scholars Speak at Major Science Convention

February 15, 2013

Boston University BU Child Language Lab, Language and Cognitive Processes, argent College assistant professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences Sudha Arunachalam

Schools and Colleges

To Moop or Not to Moop

February 13, 2013

Boston University BU, Ahmad Mo Khalil assistant professor, biomedical engineering department, Science Works For U.S., Association of American Universities AAU, Science Coalition, Association of Public, Land-grant Universities

Research

BU Video Urges Stop! to Looming Research Cuts

February 7, 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

Physical Science

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

University News

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

Research

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

Health & Medicine

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

Global

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

Schools and Colleges

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

CAMED

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

Labs

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

Research

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

SPH Superfund Program Secures $11 Million from NIH