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Social Justice

Five New Studies to Probe Pandemic’s Impact on Vulnerable Urban Populations

July 17, 2020

In this May 8, 2020, file photo, registered nurse Katie Hammond, left, works with another nurse on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center , in Seattle. The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday, May 16, 2020. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288.

Translation

Translational Research Hub at BU Gets $38.3 Million Renewal from NIH

May 21, 2020

A photo of researchers working with COVID-19 in the NEIDL labs

Decoding COVID-19

BU NEIDL Scientists Featured in NOVA’s Special Coronavirus Episode

May 14, 2020

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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Research Accolades

Two BU Scholars of African American History Elected to AAAS

April 29, 2020

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COVID-19 Shutdown

After Major Exodus From Campus Labs, BU Research Plans For a Post-Pandemic Return

April 16, 2020

Portrait of Ksenia Bravaya

Chemistry

Ksenia Bravaya Awarded 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship

February 12, 2020

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the center of Messier 87 (M87) and its shadow. The shadow of the black hole seen here is the closest we can come to an image of the black hole itself, a completely dark object from which light cannot escape

Research that Rocks

12 Breakthroughs That Wowed Us in 2019

December 19, 2019

Boston University Professor of Engineering, Xin Zhang, poses for a portrait in her lab.

Translational Research

Xin Zhang Elected to National Academy of Inventors

December 16, 2019

Portrait of Diana Ceballos, Boston University School of Public Health assistant professor of environmental health, in front of a Boston construction site.

Environmental Health

Children of Construction Workers Are at Risk of Secondhand Lead Exposure

December 3, 2019

Portrait of 2019 Boston University Innovator of the Year, Weining Lu, Associate Professor of Medicine.

Translational Research

Weining Lu, Kidney Researcher, Named BU Innovator of the Year

November 14, 2019

Scientific illustration showing Earth's magnetic field deflecting solar winds from the sun.

Accolades

Meet BU’s Six CAREER Award Recipients

October 22, 2019

Kilachand center for integrated life sciences and engineering

Research Accolades

Three BU Research Teams Win First Kilachand Fund Awards

September 19, 2019

Portrait of Wynter Duncanson, biomedical engineer and assistant dean of outreach and diversity at Boston University

Accolades

Wynter Duncanson Recognized for STEM Diversity, Inclusion Efforts

September 16, 2019

Accolades

Two BU Researchers Honored by White House

August 23, 2019

Ed Damiano shows off the iLet bionic pancreas

Biomedical Engineering

BU Biomedical Engineer Ed Damiano Raises $126 Million for Bionic Pancreas

July 3, 2019

Traveling in a mobile examination van, researchers will examine 4,000 study participants over the course of six years in 10 rural counties across Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Image courtesy of BU School of Medicine.

Epidemiology

Framingham Heart Study Inspires Researchers to Hit the Road

May 22, 2019

Boston University professor of computer science, Leonid Levin, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Accolades

Leonid Levin

May 7, 2019

BU optics engineer, Siddharth Ramachandran, named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DOD

Accolades

Siddharth Ramachandran

May 2, 2019

Graphic symbolizing neurotrauma showing the silhouette of a human head with the top blowing off in layers.

Accolades

BU Researchers Awarded Massachusetts Life Sciences Capital Grant

April 29, 2019

BU Researchers Awarded Massachusetts Life Sciences Capital Grant