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Science & Technology

Illustration symbolizing breast cancer research using zebrafish

Disease

Zebrafish Cancer Genetics Illuminate Human Breast Cancers

April 24, 2017

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

Politics

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

Research

Wearable Windows into Breast Tumors

April 24, 2017

Science advocates in Copley Square in February 2017 for a Rally to Stand up for Science.

Science & Technology

To March or Not to March for Science?

April 20, 2017

Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady eats a turkey leg

Faculty

One Class, One Day: Are You Man Enough? (And What Does That Mean?)

April 19, 2017

online education student taking notes for an online class

Science & Technology

New Questrom MOOCs Offer Path to MicroMasters Certification

April 18, 2017

The 121st Boston Marathon takes place on Monday, April 17.

Science & Technology

Patriots Day Weekend in and around Town

April 14, 2017

ESPN’s Kevin Merida says athletes can help focus attention on issues that concern them.

Science & Technology

Second BU Play It Forward Summit Tackles Race and Gender

April 12, 2017

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

Health & Medicine

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

coal

Sustainability

POV: Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

April 5, 2017

Poster for COM Media Literacy Initiative

University News

Can You Tell Real News from Fake News, Propaganda, Lies?

April 5, 2017

Attorneys for the ACLU, Omar Jadwat(L) and Justin Cox(R) listen as Becca Heller(C) from IRAP, the International Refugee Assistance Project,delivers remarks to the media outside US District Court, Southern District of Maryland, March 15, 2017, in Greenbelt, Maryland, where a judge heard their challenges to US President Trump's Executive Order travel ban

Science & Technology

BU Supports Second Lawsuit against Trump Travel Ban

April 3, 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

Aurora Kesseli with third-graders Amaria Smith (left) and Cassandra Riley as they work on an experiment at the Girls Science Club.

STEM

Science Club for Girls Takes STEM to the Next Generation

March 30, 2017

Homepage of Boston University Research Support website on computer screens

Administration

University Launches Research Support Website

March 24, 2017

Maine attorney David Soley

Infectious Diseases

Recalling the Public Panic in Famous Ebola Court Case

March 21, 2017

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

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

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget