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Student Research

Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers

September 8, 2025

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ROBOTICS

ENG Students Mentor BU Academy and Match Charter School High Schoolers Heading to Robotics Competition

April 2, 2025

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Awards

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

February 4, 2025

Ph.D Candidate, Ariane Garrett demonstrates how to use a cuff-less blood pressure monitor

Photonics

What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure?

January 8, 2025

Ph.D Candidate, Ariane Garrett demonstrates how to use a cuff-less blood pressure monitor

Optical Technology

Using Light to Monitor Blood Pressure and Track Cancer Treatment Progress

November 7, 2024

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Funding Health Research

How ARPA-H Is Accelerating Funding in Biomedical, Medicine, and Health Research—and How BU’s Scientists Can Benefit

October 24, 2024

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Soft Robots

Just How Safe Are Soft Robots?

September 18, 2024

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Life Sciences

Young GENEiuses: SummerLab Gives Teens a Chance to Learn about State-of-the-Art CRISPR Technology

August 20, 2024

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NSF CAREER Awards

Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work

June 27, 2024

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Expert Take

Being Open about LGBTQ+ Identities in the Classroom Creates Positive Learning Environments

June 17, 2024

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2023 in Review

Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers

December 11, 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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STEM

U-Design, the College of Engineering’s Summer Program, Introduces Middle Schoolers to the World of STEM

August 1, 2023

Photo: Ruslan Afasizhev (left), a tall whie man with a balding, shaved grey hair and wearing a light blue collared shirt and dark grey jeans, and Inna Afasizheva, a white woman with short grey-brown hair and wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and white jeans, pose in a brightly lit lab. Ruslan leans slightly back against a lab worktop while Inna poses with one hand one the same worktop behind Ruslan.

Molecular Biology

They Fell in Love with Each Other, Then with the Same Science

July 18, 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

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LGBTQ+ Health

“Feeling Seen”: How One Physiology Professor Shines a Light on LGBTQ+ Heart Health

June 5, 2023

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Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

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NASA

Delivery Drones and Rotor-Powered Rideshares Sound Great—and Noisy

March 14, 2023

Catherine Espaillat, Vivek Goyal, and Malika Jeffries-EL were all honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Photos by Cydney Scott

Accolades

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows

January 31, 2023

These BU Researchers Were Just Named AAAS Fellows