Boston University

Research

Career Development Award Winners

Awards

Career Development Awards Go to Seven Junior Faculty

September 12, 2017

Merav Opher with REU students

Science & Technology

NSF Program Brings Budding Astronomers to BU

July 21, 2017

Natalie McKnight

Humanities

Please, Sir, I Want Some More Textual Analysis

July 14, 2017

Ted Davis embarks on a birding trip out of Sydney Harbour in 1982.Ted Davis embarks on a birding trip out of Sydney Harbour in 1982. Photo courtesy of Ted Davis

Research

Bird Man

July 13, 2017

Sarah Phillips, associate professor of history at Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, and author of The Price of Plenty: From Farm to Food Politics in Postwar America

University News

BU Center for Humanities Names New Fellows

July 5, 2017

Captiol Building

Research

Congress Resists Research Cuts

June 6, 2017

With “the Beast,” as Wesley Wildman calls his research team’s custom-made computer, questions in religion studies become testable via simulation.

Religion

What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us about Religion

June 1, 2017

Participants in the Storytelling with Data Workshops will learn methods for scraping from a web site and new data visualization techniques.

Computational Science

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone

May 30, 2017

The finding that immigrants commit fewer crimes than native Americans is not “particularly controversial,: says Christopher Salas-Wright.

Immigration

Immigrants Commit Less Crime, President Trump

May 11, 2017

Boston University students study for final exams at Mugar Library

Students

Behind the Scenes at Mugar Memorial Library

May 8, 2017

Ann McKee, director of BU’s CTE Center

Science & Technology

Court Rules for BU, against NHL in CTE Case

April 28, 2017

illustration symbolizing the effect of dioxins and other toxic chemical chemical carcinogens in the environment that cause breast cancer

Research

Dioxins Point to Targets for Treating Breast Cancer

April 24, 2017

Black Woman Health Disparities illustration

Disease

Too Many Black Women Die from Breast Cancer. Why?

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing breast cancer research using zebrafish

Genetics

Zebrafish Cancer Genetics Illuminate Human Breast Cancers

April 24, 2017

Illustration of hands holding the body of a woman symbolizing the help of patient navigators for underserved women with breast cancer

Health & Medicine

Patient Navigators Improve Delivery of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

April 24, 2017

Illustration symbolizing noninvasive biomedical imaging of breast tumors

Cancer

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

Sally Bachman

Health & Medicine

Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health Director Named

April 18, 2017

School of Public Health, Talbot Building

Research

BU Named “International Powerhouse” by Times Higher Ed

March 27, 2017

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

Ebola

Boston Public Health Commission to Consider NEIDL Research Request Tonight

March 6, 2017

Boston Public Health Commission to Consider NEIDL Research Request Tonight