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Health & Medicine

Boston Marathon security

BUPD

Marathon Monday a Time to Keep Safe

April 14, 2017

Alice Cronin-Golomb, CAS professor of psychological and brain sciences, in her office

Mental Health

Office Artifacts: Alice Cronin-Golomb

April 13, 2017

Sue Siegel (from left), CEO of GE Ventures and healthymagination, Sandro Galea, Robert A. Knox Professor and SPH dean, and Monica Valdes Lupi (SPH’99), executive director of the Boston Public Health Commission, at the SPH Dean’s Symposium Building Healthy Cities: Boston and Beyond, on April 5.

Public Health

New Approaches for Building Healthier Cities

April 10, 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

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

Starting this fall, MED’s new Health Sciences Education program will offer both a master’s degree and certificate for health science educators.

Medicine

MED Launches New Health Sciences Education Program

March 30, 2017

Steven Sandage, director of research at BU’s Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute, is involved in a two-year study researching humility among religious leaders.

Psychology

Studying the Benefits of Humility

March 27, 2017

A pile of prosthetic eyes hand sculpted by Kaylee Dougherty of Boston Ocular Prosthetics, Inc.

Alumni

The Art of Creating Artificial Eyes and Facial Prosthetics

March 23, 2017

Maine attorney David Soley

Infectious Diseases

Recalling the Public Panic in Famous Ebola Court Case

March 21, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

Wellness Fair swag

Health & Medicine

Spring into Wellness Tonight

March 20, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Academics

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Participants in the Women's March on Washington DC rally outside the White House

Public Health

POV: What the GOP’s New Health Care Act Really Means

March 20, 2017

Boston University Police and Boston Police will resume enhanced alcohol enforcement patrols starting this weekend.

Public Safety

Alcohol Enforcement Patrols Resume Today

March 16, 2017

Lauren Banks (CGS’17) and Jared Lawson (ENG’18) fill Condom Fairy orders in their role as Student Health Ambassadors.

Wellness

SHS Seeks Student Health Ambassadors for Next Year

March 13, 2017

Béla Suki, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, and Jarred Mondoñedo, Boston University School of Medicine MD candidate and College of Engineering PhD candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?

March 10, 2017

PhD candidate Emily Lam works with smart lighting sensors as part of Thomas Little's research with the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC)

Electrical Engineering

New Sensors for Smart Lighting

March 8, 2017

Free Doctor and Drinkable Water signs in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Eidomeni, Greece

Global Health

POV: Health Care Professionals Must Redouble Efforts to Care for Refugees

March 7, 2017

Gloria Waters, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University, speaks during a meeting of the Boston Biosafety Committee to consider a request by Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) for permission to conduct Biosafety Level 4 research at the facility

NEIDL

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research

March 7, 2017

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research