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Photo of the headstones of Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MED'1864), reading "the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US." and her husband Arthuer Crumpler. The headstones are at the Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. Bright green grass grows around the headstones.

Historic Alumni

Trailblazing BU Alum Gets a Gravestone 125 Years after Her Death

August 7, 2020

Sign at the the Covid-19 testing collection site on the BU Medical Campus on July 27, 2020. Sign reads “BU Medical Campus COVID-19 Testing Collection Site” in a red box with an arrow pointing to the right. Bolded text below reads “Testing by appointment only.”

BUMC

Medical Campus Begins COVID-19 Test Pilot Program

July 28, 2020

A photo of a person using a VR headset and hand controls

Science & Technology

Real Doctors. Real Social Workers. Virtual Patients.

May 12, 2020

Members of the medical team at the Newton Pavilion COVID-19 recuperation unit for homeless patients, after putting on personal protective equipment for the unit’s opening on April 9, 2020.

Health & Medicine

State-Owned Newton Pavilion Reopens to Treat Homeless Patients with COVID-19

April 21, 2020

A photo of students taking the hippocratic oath via Zoom

Student Life

MED Class of 2020 on Graduating in the Midst of a Pandemic

April 17, 2020

Composite image of photos of Boston Medical Center doctors Kristen Goodell, Evan Berg, Michael Ieong, Sarah Kimball, and James Hudspeth

Boston Medical Center

Boston Medical Center Doctors on Front Lines of COVID-19 Pandemic

April 13, 2020

A photo of BU's MED campus

Coronavirus

BU School of Medicine Will Graduate Students Early to Help Hospitals

March 26, 2020

Medicine

Should Doctors Learn from Nazi Medical Research on Holocaust Victims?

June 20, 2019

Ann McKee speaks at the MED Convocation

Health & Medicine

Ann McKee Urges MED Graduates to Speak Up for the Voiceless

May 21, 2019

John Howe delivers his Baccalaureate address

Global Health

In Baccalaureate Address, John Howe (MED’69, Hon.’19) Puts Names to “Making a Difference”

May 19, 2019

close up of George Annas teaching

Medicine

Did Researchers Bring Dead Pigs Back to Life? And Would That Be OK?

April 29, 2019

In this microscopic image of precancerous lung tissue, the hot pink cells are dividing faster than in normal lung tissue. Credit: Beane, et al., Nature Communications

Health & Medicine

What If We Could Stop Lung Cancer Before It Starts?

April 23, 2019

Public Safety

Why You Should Keep a Tourniquet in Your Beach Bag

April 20, 2019

Detail photo of a researcher demonstrating a drug-free blue light therapy MRSA treatment. The researcher exposes a petri dish of MRSA and hydrogen peroxide to a blue light laser light.

Photonics

How Light Turns Ordinary Hydrogen Peroxide into a MRSA Treatment

April 9, 2019

School of Social Work graduate student Jessica Lareau

Health & Medicine

Don’t Call Jessica Lareau an Alcoholic. To Her, Words Matter

April 2, 2019

Cara Guenther and Otis visit Darinta Larios in BMC's Pediatric Inpatient Unit

Therapy

MED Student’s Bernese Mountain Dog Captivates, Comforts BMC Patients

April 1, 2019

microscopic view of melanoma

Genetics

Shutting Down Skin Cancer

February 25, 2019

Mattio looks at plants at a Dispensary in Seattle

Health & Medicine

Jobs in the Emerging Cannabis Industry: Life on a New Frontier

February 5, 2019

A hand pulls back on a rubber band getting ready to "shoot" it from a lab machine as part of an experiment researching physics of shooting rubber bands and plucking guitar strings

Physics

Slingshot Surprise

January 31, 2019

A portrait of Nicole Prudent

University News

After Nearly Three Decades, MED Pediatrician Nicole Prudent to Retire

January 28, 2019

After Nearly Three Decades, MED Pediatrician Nicole Prudent to Retire