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Computational Science

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

Social Media

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone

May 30, 2017

Team 8’s Richard Nesbit (from left), Fritz Jolivain, and Brett Moretzky demonstrating the Groove Gloves.

Engineering

Engineering to the Rescue

May 10, 2017

Biomedical Engineering Professor Edward Damiano in his lab with fellow researchers and their bionic pancreas

Funding

Science Coalition: Federal Funding Sparks Innovation

April 26, 2017

As principal investigators on a yearlong Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant, Juliet Floyd, a CAS professor of philosophy, and James E. Katz, a COM professor of emerging media, will bring together humanists, social scientists, computer scientists, and experts on big data to discuss humans, values, and society in transition.

Computational Science

The Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media

April 24, 2017

From left, Jeffrey Drazen, Benjamin Petrie, Jackson Steinkamp, Haares Mirzan, Sang Myung Han, Nicholas Chiu, Jason Park, Rahul Aggarwalm, and Isaac Kohane

Science & Technology

MED Students Place Second in NEJM Major International Data Challenge

April 10, 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

Portrait of Ziba Cranmer who leads BU Spark! the new in-house incubator for student technology projects at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

University News

Trustee’s Gift Ignites Student Entrepreneurship

February 13, 2017

Azer Bestavros at podium, behind him Katie Conboy, Evelyn Murphy, Marty Walsh, and Eddie Ahmed

Science & Technology

Tackling the Wage Gap with Code

January 27, 2017

Paul Cormier, Red Hat executive vice president and president of products and technologies is presented a gift by Boston University President Robert A. Brown commemorating the new partnership between BU and Red Hat

Data Science

BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership

January 25, 2017

Laptop open with coding on the screen and a man's hand on the keyboard

Computer Science

Is Your Computer Sexist?

December 6, 2016

Cathie Jo Martin and ntern Ben Getchell sitting in a room at a meeting

Technology

SAIL: A Resource from Literature to Medicine

November 30, 2016

Elizabeth Grossman, Lauren Lockwood, Azer Bestavros, and Daniel Castro discuss smart cities at a panel discussion in Washington

Science & Technology

Thinking about Smart Cities

November 10, 2016

Siemens Healthineers 3 Tesla MRI scanner

Neuroscience

NSF Funds State-of-the-art MRI Scanner

September 30, 2016

David Baylies

Arts on Campus

Building a Better Electronic Trumpet

August 4, 2016

Roscoe Giles, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Computers

Someday, You’ll Have Supercomputing in Your Hand

July 11, 2016

susan b. anthony dollar coin and john f. kennedy half-dollar coin

Computer Science

Calculating Gender Pay Equity

July 8, 2016

Boston University cybersecurity experts Joseph Calandrino, Joseph Lorenzeo Hall, and Sharon Goldberg

internet

Cybersecurity Experts Go to Washington

July 5, 2016

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

Professor Daniel Segrè and PhD candidate Allyson Byrd at the White House launch of the National Microbiome Initiative

Biology

BU Scientists Attend Launch of National Microbiome Initiative

May 17, 2016

Sharon Goldberg, Boston University associate professor of computer science and faculty fellow at the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

Computer Science

Will Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Unlock a Pandora’s Box?

March 15, 2016

Will Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Unlock a Pandora’s Box?