Boston University

Science & Technology

Michael Silverstein, a professor of pediatrics at BU School of Medicine, and a team of researchers incorporated a depression prevention technique into Head Start programs around Boston. Photo by Cydney Scott

Medicine

BU Researchers’ Study: Simple Problem-Solving Technique to Treat Depression

November 27, 2017

Barbara Zayas

Global

Beyond Trump’s Border Wall

November 21, 2017

Red Bull Nutrition Label

Politics

FDA’s Plan to Delay New Food Label Is Misguided

November 21, 2017

Josiah Sherman, an undergraduate majoring in biology at Xavier University, in New Orleans, explaining his research at Xavier’s 2017 summer research symposium. As part of a new NSF grant to engage underrepresented minorities in exploring STEM careers, the BU School of Medicine will offer opportunities for Xavier students to meet with researchers at BU.

Science & Technology

BU Promotes Diversity in STEM Fields with NSF Grants

November 20, 2017

White House photographer Pete Souza, camera ready, with President Obama during an event celebrating the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

Politics

Obama: An Intimate Portrait Chronicles Eight Extraordinary Years

November 17, 2017

Graphic illustration symbolizing the cost of waging modern warfare

Government & Law

Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion

November 16, 2017

Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins (MED’18)

Data Science

Count Love Project Reveals Protest Patterns

November 15, 2017

A magnetized pouch that Boston University lecturer Joelle Renstrom uses to lock up student cell phones during class

Classes

Surviving Class minus Your Cell Phone

November 14, 2017

View of the Boston skyline at night

Mobile

Eight Ways to Hack Boston

November 14, 2017

Aaron Hernandez as an NFL player with the New England Patriots

CTE

Aaron Hernandez’s CTE Worst Seen by BU Experts in a Young Person

November 9, 2017

BU postdoctoral researcher Susan Finkbeiner in her lab, and on the runway during London Fashion Week in September.

Fashion

The Scientific Model

November 9, 2017

Steve Bannon

Science & Technology

POV: The Grim Reaper Meets Tail Gunner Joe

November 7, 2017

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), with American families and members of the House Republican leadership, introducing tax reform legislation November 2. The legislation is a centerpiece the Trump legislative agenda

Politics

BU, Higher Ed Peers Mobilize against Congressional Tax Bill

November 7, 2017

Larry Sulak, David M. Myers Distinguished Professor and College of Arts & Sciences chairman emeritus of physics at Boston University, and winner of the 2018 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in experimental particle physics

Physics

Larry Sulak Wins Top US Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

November 6, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

trump

Public Policy

POV: Trump’s Opioid Efforts Don’t Go Far Enough

November 2, 2017

Biology

Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team

November 1, 2017

Jodi Cranston, Professor of Renaissance art at Boston University and founder of historical art research website mappingpaintings.org

History

Hidden Stories behind Art Masterpieces

November 1, 2017

Greg Skomal and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy crew on a boat filming and tagging a Great White shark in Cape Cod

Marine Science

Tracking Cape Cod Sharks

October 30, 2017

Mark Veyette

Space Sciences

Searching for Life around the Stars

October 24, 2017

Searching for Life around the Stars