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Science & Technology

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

Social Media

Surviving Class minus Your Cell Phone

November 14, 2017

View of the Boston skyline at night

Science & Technology

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

Politics

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

Science & Technology

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

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Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

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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

Visual Arts

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

Earth & Environment

Tracking Cape Cod Sharks

October 30, 2017

Mark Veyette

Space Sciences

Searching for Life around the Stars

October 24, 2017

Green-colored rendering of Boston skyline

Earth & Environment

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

October 19, 2017

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Weighing Our Options for Dealing with North Korea

October 16, 2017

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STEM

Is Science Too Straight?

October 11, 2017

Robert Reinhart, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University

Neuroscience

A “Turbo Charge” for Your Brain?

October 10, 2017

1) Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center, with Amadou Ndiaye, an Ajami and Arabic bookseller in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Photo courtesy of Ablaye Diakité

Humanities

Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age

October 5, 2017

Libraries and Archives Meet the Digital Age