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Public Health

POV: How Censorship Can Harm Public Health

December 20, 2017

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Yanomami women's leaders Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima, speak at BU Hillel about struggles over indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon.

Health & Medicine

Yanomami Women Speak of Amazon Struggles

December 19, 2017

Boston Medical Center psychiatrist Lisa Fortuna during a Project Hope trip to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria

Medicine

MED Psychiatrist Goes to Puerto Rico on Humanitarian Mission

December 18, 2017

Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) researchers at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) Judith Olejnik, Elke Mühlberger, and Adam Hume

Labs

NEIDL BSL-4 Lab Gets Green Light

December 6, 2017

ACES CO2 map visualizing carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in Rhode Island

Climate Change

CAS Scientists Develop ACES to Monitor Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

December 4, 2017

Michael Silverstein, a professor of pediatrics at BU School of Medicine, and a team of researchers incorporated a depression prevention technique into Head Start programs around Boston. Photo by Cydney Scott

Medicine

BU Researchers’ Study: Simple Problem-Solving Technique to Treat Depression

November 27, 2017

Red Bull Nutrition Label

Public Health

FDA’s Plan to Delay New Food Label Is Misguided

November 21, 2017

Graphic illustration symbolizing the cost of waging modern warfare

Government & Law

Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion

November 16, 2017

Health & Medicine

POV: Stop Blaming the Poor for Their Poverty

November 16, 2017

Maria Vertkin, founder of the Found in Translation nonprofit organization that trains low-income women to become medical interpreters

University News

Helping Immigrants Understand Their Doctors

November 13, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

A panel of BU community experts will offer advice and information at the Wellness and Prevention Services annual Sex in the Dark event tonight. Students can submit their questions in advance anonymously. Photo by Frank Curran

Public Safety

Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask

October 30, 2017

Green-colored rendering of Boston skyline

Earth & Environment

Can Boston Be a Green City by 2050?

October 19, 2017

Farm manager Lindsay Allen (above) says the University’s affiliated teaching hospital started the farm atop BMC’s power plant “to provide superlocal, organic produce” for patients and staff and to reduce the environmental costs of procuring food.

In the City

A Farm in the Sky

October 17, 2017

BU School of Public Health Dean Sandro Galea speaks at the Building Healthy Cities event

Faculty

Promoting Health for All Populations

September 25, 2017

Illustration of cardiac patch

Engineering

BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center

September 12, 2017

The SPH professors hosting the Free Associations podcast: are Donald Thea (from left), Matthew Fox, and Chris Gill. Photos by Nick Gooler, School of Public Health

Disease

SPH Podcast on Health Studies Helps You Lose Weight (Not Really)

September 11, 2017

Johnson, Morrison, Ryan, and Rosenbloom in group photo

Healthcare

911 Call on the Opioid Crisis

July 28, 2017

Ann McKee, director of BU’s CTE Center

CTE

CTE Found in 99 Percent of Former NFL Players Studied

July 26, 2017

CTE Found in 99 Percent of Former NFL Players Studied