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Science & Technology

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

Gender Studies

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

Computational Science

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 2017

coal

Voices & Opinion

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

Law

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

Science & Technology

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

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Study Abroad

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Béla Suki, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, and Jarred Mondoñedo, Boston University School of Medicine MD candidate and College of Engineering PhD candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?

March 10, 2017

Cara Stepp

Rehabilitation Sciences

Regaining a Voice

March 9, 2017

PhD candidate Emily Lam works with smart lighting sensors as part of Thomas Little's research with the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC)

Electrical Engineering

New Sensors for Smart Lighting

March 8, 2017

Free Doctor and Drinkable Water signs in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Eidomeni, Greece

Politics

POV: Health Care Professionals Must Redouble Efforts to Care for Refugees

March 7, 2017

Gloria Waters, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University, speaks during a meeting of the Boston Biosafety Committee to consider a request by Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) for permission to conduct Biosafety Level 4 research at the facility

NEIDL

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research

March 7, 2017

Boston University’s NEIDL still needs permission from the Boston Public Health Commission before conducting Biosafety Level 4 research.

Public Health

Boston Public Health Commission to Consider NEIDL Research Request Tonight

March 6, 2017

Economics professor and numismatist Pankaj Tandon holds a coin from ancient India under a magnifying glass

History

Economics Professor—and Noted Numismatist

March 6, 2017

Economics Professor—and Noted Numismatist