Boston University

The Brink

Pioneering Research from Boston University

Neuroscientists Samantha Michalka of Boston University Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology and David Somers of Boston University Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

Neuroscience

Seeing Space and Hearing Time

August 24, 2015

VA Hospitals

Veterans

Prescription: Get Talking

August 12, 2015

Horseshoe, four-leaf clover, rabbit's foot

Economics

Don’t Forget Your Horseshoe

August 12, 2015

High school student Lauren Strong talks to Boston University mechanical engineering professor Helen Fawcett while participating in a new program to promote diversity in the STEM fields

STEM

Photonics Center Programs Promote Diversity in STEM Fields

August 7, 2015

Steve Grossberg, Boston University Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, in his home office

Neuroscience

Steve Grossberg’s Long Walk Toward the Light

August 6, 2015

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Health Care Technologies

Big Data and Improving Health Care

August 3, 2015

Alexander Sergienko, Boston University College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering

Engineering

Quantum Code Master

July 30, 2015

Samuel Hammer, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Boston University College of General Studies, and Meg Tyler, poet and associate professor of humanities at Boston University College of General Studies

Accolades

Two CGS Professors Win Fulbright Awards

July 30, 2015

Computer Engineering

Gut Reactions

July 28, 2015

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Medicine

Early Menarche Linked to Breast Cancer in African American Women

July 27, 2015

Max Kon

Linguistics & Language Sciences

A Rare Syndrome, a Brother’s Love

July 27, 2015

SpaceX Dragon private cargo spacecraft in space during its first mission to the International Space Station

Dentistry

Space Science for SDM Biologists

July 21, 2015

Forensic Science

Dubious DNA

July 21, 2015

CFA Music Chair Jeremy Yudkin

Arts

A CFA Center for All Things Beethoven

July 20, 2015

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Government & Law

Preventing an Antibiotic Apocalypse

July 15, 2015

Jacqueline Estevez (MED’17) is in California studying liver cancer in people who’ve had hepatitis, while Joseph Park (MED’18) works at Brigham & Women’s Hospital trying to understand a nasty shellfish bacteria. Photo of Estevez by Genevieve Shiffrar. Photo of Park by Cydney Scott

Accolades

Hughes Fellowships Send Two MED Students to the Lab

July 14, 2015

Public Health

Recreational, Weekend Drug Use Can Morph into Daily Use

July 13, 2015

Associate Professors Jennifer Luebke and Tarik Haydar

Neuroscience

Building Brain Complexity

July 9, 2015

Low-income children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could be better helped if their parents got skills counseling, MED’s Michael Silverstein says.

Pediatrics

Helping Parents Help Their ADHD Child

July 6, 2015

Children in a school in Botswana

Education

Cutting Risk of HIV Infection in Botswana

July 2, 2015

Cutting Risk of HIV Infection in Botswana