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Science & Technology

A spider-shaped pericyte, seen here in light blue, encircles a capillary, helping maintain the blood-brain barrier

Neurology

Genetic Risk for Stroke

June 30, 2016

T-shirt that says Vote Leave supporting the choice for UK to leave the EU

Global

POV: Brexit Outcome Unlikely to Satisfy Anyone

June 28, 2016

Richard Primack at Walden Pond

Earth & Environment

Tracing Water Levels at Walden Pond

June 28, 2016

Professor David Sherr, director of a new BU/Tufts consortium researching environmental causes of breast cancer

Cancer

New Consortium to Study Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer

June 27, 2016

Embryologist preparing cultures

Fertility

Fertility Treatments Raise Risks for Mothers During Delivery

June 22, 2016

Students find out how the bucolic surroundings of Mount Auburn Cemetery fit into our social history in a class taught by Charles Ian Stevenson (GRS’13,’19).

In the City

One Class, One Day: Reading Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 21, 2016

Gun

Science & Technology

POV: Studying Gun Violence to Save Lives

June 21, 2016

artisitic rendering of a Blazar in a Super Massive Black Hole

Space Sciences

Anatomy of a Blazar

June 20, 2016

silhouette of a hooded person brandishing a gun

Politics

POV: Gun Control, Another Place Where Race Matters

June 17, 2016

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh with Boston TechJam Workers in 2015

Food

Boston TechJam Returns to City Hall Plaza Today

June 16, 2016

Enough Gun Violence Campaign image of Harold Cox, associate dean for public health practice and an associate professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health

Public Health

#Enough: A Call to Action

June 16, 2016

Enough Gun Violence Campaign of Sophie Godley, clinical assistant professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health

Health & Medicine

#Enough: Stop Violence against LGBTQ Community

June 15, 2016

Enough Gun Violence Campaign image of Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at Boston University School of Public Health

Public Health

#Enough: We Need More Research on Gun Violence

June 14, 2016

A man holds a sign «#enough gun violence» while attending a vigil in Orlando, Florida 13 June 2016.

Public Health

BU School of Public Health Faculty Say “Enough”

June 13, 2016

Close-up photo of the prototype zika virus diagnostic test, reader and paper tests

Zika Virus

New Tool to Diagnose Zika

June 13, 2016

2016 Kahn Award Winners Ghazal Hassani, Felipe Pinto D-Aguiar, Leeanne Maxey

University News

Kahn Awards Will Jump-start Careers of Three CFA Grads

June 9, 2016

2012 GOP Convention

Politics

Alums Accurately, Fanatically, Cover Presidential Race

June 7, 2016

Wizdy Pets

Health & Medicine

New Apps Teach Kids about Their Health

June 6, 2016

Washington Redskins' John Riggins busts through New England Patriots defensive player Tim Fox early in the first quarter at Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 3, 1978

CTE

CTE Investigators Launch $16 Million Study

June 3, 2016

A malfunction at the NEIDL in March posed no public health threat, BU officials say. Photo by Cydney Scott

Infectious Diseases

NEIDL Ventilation Monitoring Was Temporarily Halted

June 1, 2016

NEIDL Ventilation Monitoring Was Temporarily Halted