Boston University

Earth

Sugar Cane Workers

Environment & Ecology

Kidney Disease Epidemic among Nicaragua Sugarcane Workers

March 10, 2015

pheidole dentata ants

Neuroscience

Five Thousand Heads Are Better Than One

February 17, 2015

Anthony Janetos led the team designing the National Climate Indicators System.

Climate Change

Building a Better Barometer

February 13, 2015

Boston, Snow, MBTA, January, 2015

Earth

What’s Up with All This Snow?

February 11, 2015

Andrea Digiorgio Cornell Tree Climbing Institute, Borneo orangutan research

Anthropology

Chasing Orangutans

January 26, 2015

Boston University BU, urban garden, school of public health SPH

Boston

Helping to Make Boston’s Urban Gardens Safe

November 19, 2014

university fossil fuel divestment

Climate Change

POV: Why BU Should Divest from Fossil Fuel Companies

November 18, 2014

Boston University BU, coral reef ocean research, biology, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Liz Burmester, environmental sciences, coral regeneration

Science & Technology

The Coral Whisperer

November 17, 2014

william saturno, benjamin vining, archaeology research, peru, remote sensing

Research

Seeing beneath the Sugarcane

November 9, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Kira Sullivan Wiley, Moorman-Simon Civic Fellowship, research, environmental disasters, Uganda

Science & Technology

Preventing Landslides in Uganda

October 29, 2014

Richard Murray, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Ryuji Tada, University of Tokyo, JOIDES Resolution, sediment core drilling, sedimentology, climate science

Science & Technology

The Future, Buried in the Deep

October 14, 2014

Boston University BU, biology, environment, Lucy Hutyra, app, Arnold Arboretum

Technology

Where the Wild Things Are

October 9, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Pam Templer, climate change research, forests, biology

Research

Wiring the Woods

October 7, 2014

Hollie Emery, Boston University, climate change research

Environment & Ecology

The Rainmaker

October 2, 2014

Boston University BU, study abroad, Venice, Italy, environmental biology science, ecology

Study Abroad

Lessons from Venice

September 11, 2014

Boston University faculty fossil fuel divestment petition

Earth

BU Faculty Petition Urges Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies

September 10, 2014

Muhammad Zaman

Strategy & Innovation

Two Faculty Named BU’s First Howard Hughes Professors

July 1, 2014

Dennis Carlberg, Boston University director of sustainability, Sustainability@BU, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Carbon Cup, Greenovate Boston, climate change, carbon dioxide emissions reduction target

Sustainability

Boston Awards BU a Carbon Cup

June 11, 2014

Boston University BU, herpetology, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, biology, Christopher Schneider, Karen Warkentin, Florida, Corkscrew Swamp, Archbold Biological Station, Bird Rookery Swamp, Betsie Rothermel

Students

Teachable Moments in Gator Country

March 27, 2014

self-cleaning solar panels, self cleaning solar panels

Strategy & Innovation

Self-Cleaning System Boosts Efficiency of Solar Panels

March 24, 2014

Self-Cleaning System Boosts Efficiency of Solar Panels