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Life Sciences

For 50 Years, BU’s Lawford Anderson Has Been Helping Students Unlock the Secrets of Earth’s Rocky Materials

April 25, 2025

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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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Life Sciences

Is There Science behind Twin Booms?

August 16, 2024

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Watch Now

Video: There’s Something Squirrelly about This Class

August 24, 2023

Photo: Associate director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center Stephanie McMains (GRS’06), seated, with Arielle Moore (GMS’26) in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center in CILSE Dec 1. A white woman sits in a chair gesticulating as she sits in front of a table in front of window that shows the fMRI room. A black woman wearing a blue face mask stands behind her listening attentively.

Life Sciences

Neurobiology Class Gets a Peek Inside a Volunteer’s Brain

December 22, 2022

Photo: Melisa Osborne, a woman wearing a blue face mask and floral burgundy dress, leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. She stands in front of a large lecture class room facing the class as she lectures.

Life Sciences

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare

December 12, 2022

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Listen Now

How Do I Talk to a Climate Change Denier?

September 26, 2022

Listen Now

Why Do So Many Autistic Girls Go Undiagnosed?

April 12, 2022

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Classes

New Interdisciplinary Class Asks: “What Do Plants Know?”

November 10, 2021

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Academics

Preparing the Next Generation of Science Teachers, with Flair

April 5, 2021

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Student Life

BU’s Marine Semester Marks 35th Anniversary

February 8, 2021

Photo of junior neuroscience major Shota Weaver (CAS’22) has been capturing footage of New England’s wildlife and creating short films. Here he holds camera gear and wears a backpack while standing in the woods.

Capturing Nature

Spiders, Squirrels, and Deer, Oh My: CAS Junior’s Wildlife Video Adventure

August 20, 2020

Illustrations demonstrating the best entry points in the skull for neurosurgeons.

Fine Arts

Accurate Art

March 6, 2020

A robotic surgery assistant helps dentists do dental implants on a patient.

Science & Technology

Your Dentist, and Robot, Will See You Now

January 16, 2020

Teachers and graduate students in the Boston University Cadaver Lab advanced anatomy class point and discuss features of a dissected human heart

Life Sciences

Have You Held a Human Heart? An Afternoon Inside BU’s Cadaver Lab

December 18, 2019

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Student Voices

Meet the Class of 2023: Kennedy Williams

September 5, 2019

Koch plans to build a digital twin of his drone in computer simulation, creating an exact replica so that the controller can no longer tell the difference between computer simulation and the real world. The digital twin will allow him to improve Neuroflight's control over the drone's behavior. Courtesy of Wil Koch

Computer Science

Neuroflight Is the World’s First Neural-Network-Enabled Drone Controller

April 22, 2019

Neuroscience

As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?

April 9, 2019

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Science & Technology

Students on How BU’s Free Adobe Creative Cloud Access Helped Them Dazzle

March 19, 2019

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Apps

Ban or Embrace: Professors Share Strategies for Cell Phones in Class

January 29, 2019

Ban or Embrace: Professors Share Strategies for Cell Phones in Class