Boston University

Health & Medicine

Black Woman Health Disparities illustration

Disease

Too Many Black Women Die from Breast Cancer. Why?

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing breast cancer research using zebrafish

Cancer

Zebrafish Cancer Genetics Illuminate Human Breast Cancers

April 24, 2017

Terrorism expert Jessica Stern, research professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Health & Medicine

Why Terrorists Kill

April 24, 2017

Illustration of hands holding the body of a woman symbolizing the help of patient navigators for underserved women with breast cancer

Boston Medical Center

Patient Navigators Improve Delivery of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Biomedical Engineering

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

Litre Bottles of Soda

Neurology

Is Soda Bad for Your Brain? (And Is Diet Soda Worse?)

April 21, 2017

Out of the Darkness walk

Marsh Plaza

Standing in Solidarity with Those Affected by Suicide

April 20, 2017

Sally Bachman

Schools and Colleges

Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health Director Named

April 18, 2017

Boston Marathon security

University News

Marathon Monday a Time to Keep Safe

April 14, 2017

Alice Cronin-Golomb, CAS professor of psychological and brain sciences, in her office

Mental Health

Office Artifacts: Alice Cronin-Golomb

April 13, 2017

Sue Siegel (from left), CEO of GE Ventures and healthymagination, Sandro Galea, Robert A. Knox Professor and SPH dean, and Monica Valdes Lupi (SPH’99), executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, at the SPH Dean’s Symposium Building Healthy Cities: Boston and Beyond, on April 5.

Public Health

New Approaches for Building Healthier Cities

April 10, 2017

From left, Jeffrey Drazen, Benjamin Petrie, Jackson Steinkamp, Haares Mirzan, Sang Myung Han, Nicholas Chiu, Jason Park, Rahul Aggarwalm, and Isaac Kohane

Science & Technology

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Cancer

BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry

April 3, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

Starting this fall, MED’s new Health Sciences Education program will offer both a master’s degree and certificate for health science educators.

CAMED

MED Launches New Health Sciences Education Program

March 30, 2017

Steven Sandage, director of research at BU’s Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute, is involved in a two-year study researching humility among religious leaders.

Psychology

Studying the Benefits of Humility

March 27, 2017

A pile of prosthetic eyes hand sculpted by Kaylee Dougherty of Boston Ocular Prosthetics, Inc.

Arts & Culture

The Art of Creating Artificial Eyes and Facial Prosthetics

March 23, 2017

Maine attorney David Soley

Infectious Diseases

Recalling the Public Panic in Famous Ebola Court Case

March 21, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

Wellness Fair swag

Health & Medicine

Spring into Wellness Tonight

March 20, 2017

Spring into Wellness Tonight