Boston University

Research

Boston University BU, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories NEIDL, National Institutes of Health NIH issued Supplemental Record of Decision, research facility risk assessment

Research

State Approves NEIDL Biosafety Level 3, 4 Research

March 4, 2013

Elise Morgan, College of Engineering associate professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering, Boston University, bone regeneration, distraction osteogenesis

Science & Technology

The Bone Mender

March 4, 2013

Boston University BU, Center for Axiety and Related Disorders, problem preschoolers, web therapy parents, oppositional defiant disorder, parent-child interaction therapy PCIT, child clinical therapy research

Neuroscience

Web Therapy for Problem Preschoolers

March 1, 2013

Jonathan Appavoo, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Ellen Grant, Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, big data, cloud computing, medicine, research

Research

Medicine in the Cloud

February 28, 2013

Boston University BU, sequestration, research budget, congress economy spending

Economy

Getting Ready for Sequestration

February 28, 2013

Kei Koizumi, science funding adviser to President of the United States Barack Obama, federal funding research

Research

Fighting for Federal Funding of Science

February 27, 2013

underaged drinking, alcohol brands, beer brands

Public Health

New Study: Alcohol Brands Underage Drinkers Prefer

February 26, 2013

Gulf War Illness, Gulf War Syndrome, Kim Sullivan, Boston University School of Public Health SPH

Health & Medicine

Closing in on a Medical Mystery

February 19, 2013

Howard Eichenbaum, professor of psychology, Boston University, memory, dementia

Research

BU Scholars Speak at Major Science Convention

February 15, 2013

Boston University BU Child Language Lab, Language and Cognitive Processes, argent College assistant professor of speech, language, and hearing sciences Sudha Arunachalam

Schools and Colleges

To Moop or Not to Moop

February 13, 2013

Boston University BU, Ahmad Mo Khalil assistant professor, biomedical engineering department, Science Works For U.S., Association of American Universities AAU, Science Coalition, Association of Public, Land-grant Universities

Research

BU Video Urges Stop! to Looming Research Cuts

February 7, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, assistant professor lead researcher Nicole Glazer, exercise routines, short activity bursts benefits, research

Health & Medicine

Lazy Person’s Guide to Exercise

January 31, 2013

Boston University BU, professors, Mark Grinstaff, Theodore Moustakas, Barbara Gilchrest, James Collins, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, biomedical engineer, chemistry, National Academy of Inventors

Awards

National Academy of Inventors Elects Four BU Profs

January 30, 2013

Boston University BU, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences GRS, Gail Carpenter, professor of cognitive and neural systems and mathematics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers fellow IEEE

Science & Technology

Gail Carpenter Named IEEE Fellow

January 29, 2013

Boston University BU, ecology research, faculty Robinson "Wally" Fulweiler, coastal ecology research, estuary sediment, Waquoit Bay, Falmouth, nitrogen global impact

Science & Technology

Fulweiler’s Message in a Bottle

January 28, 2013

Boston University BU, faculty assistant professor Jennifer Green, School of Education SED, special education, teenage suicide prevention, dialectic behavior therapy, personality disorders, reduce self endangering behaviors

Health & Medicine

Preventing Teenage Suicide

January 28, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, biology, Richard Primack, flowers bloom Walden Pond, climate change evidence

Research

Early Spring Flowering Sets Record

January 25, 2013

Boston University BU, Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, research political analysis impact of global warming climate change, sustainability

Sustainability

New Pardee Center Director Named

January 24, 2013

Boston University BU, Sargent College SAR, director Kim Mueser, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, occupational therapy, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

Psychology

Working for the Underdog

January 23, 2013

Boston University BU, school of medicine MED associate professor, chief of computational biomedicine, Avrum Spira, Rebecca Kusko, rise in lung cancer incidence nonsmokers

Research

Never Smoked. Lived Right. Died of Lung Cancer.

January 22, 2013

Never Smoked. Lived Right. Died of Lung Cancer.