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Science & Technology

Ann McKee’s pioneering research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has earned her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Another Accolade for CTE Researcher Ann McKee

August 7, 2018

Infectious disease researchers Elke Mühlberger (left) and Adam Hume conduct BSL-4 research at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).

Labs

Ebola Research Begins at NEIDL

August 2, 2018

Student director Charles Gagnon

Business & Law

Ready Camera One

August 1, 2018

Political scientists Maxwell Palmer (from left), David Glick, and Katherine Levine Einstein say big-city mayors shun higher office because of its hard-edged partisanship. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Social Sciences

Why Some Politicians Shun Promotions

August 1, 2018

Two men wearing helmets boxing with one punching the other in a ring.

Neuroscience

Contact Sports Associated with Lewy Body Disease

July 31, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

Social Sciences

Diversity Is Difficult

July 30, 2018

Illustration of the lack of women's voices in media

University News

Extra! Extra! More Women Profs Will Be Quoted by Media!

July 20, 2018

Alumni

Go Ahead, Test Him

July 16, 2018

A student with a backpack walks through a library

Neuroscience

BU Researchers Find a Potential Biomarker for Long-lasting Learning

July 16, 2018

Close-up Egyptian fruit bat or rousette, Rousettus aegyptiacus. on isolated black background

Infectious Diseases

Marburg Virus Can’t Kill Bats. Why?

July 13, 2018

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee

Politics

POV: Brett Kavanaugh, Conservative or Constitutionalist?

July 11, 2018

Gilliland Observatory

Arts & Culture

Astronomy After Hours at the Museum of Science Tonight

July 6, 2018

Student researcher Elizabeth Hannigan working with archaeological artifacts found in the Maya city of Xultún

Humanities

Examining a Woman’s Role—1,300 Years Ago

July 5, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

Protesters gather outside the Supreme Court House.

Politics

LAW Prof: SCOTUS Travel Ban Decision Reflects a “Dark Era”

June 29, 2018

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrartes with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowly on June 26, 2018 in New York City. Ocasio-Cortez upset Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Government & Law

BU Alumna Wins Upset Congressional Primary in New York City

June 27, 2018

Trump signing an executive order to stop the separation of families

Politics

What Does Trump’s Immigration Order Mean?

June 22, 2018

A Mexican woman holds a doll next to children at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry, in the US-Mexico border in Chihuahua state, Mexico on June 20, 2018

Politics

POV: Harm of Border Separations Will Haunt US Future

June 21, 2018

Gina Ortiz Jones, candidate for the Texas 23rd district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives

lgbt

A Different Kind of Texas Candidate

June 18, 2018

A Different Kind of Texas Candidate