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Public Health

SPH student argues in a POV that BU’s Board of Trustees should divest from all companies involved in the firearms industry.

Voices & Opinion

BU Should Divest from Gun Manufacturers

April 17, 2018

Researchers discussing work at the Health Equity Symposium poster session.

Medicine

BU Medical Campus Hosts Annual Health Equity Symposium

April 12, 2018

Real and counterfeit Viagra pills side by side. Real Viagra is on the right.

Global Health

Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem

April 11, 2018

woman rolling a joint

Public Health

SPH Study: Marijuana Use Does Not Lower Chances of Getting Pregnant

March 26, 2018

Ziming Xuan, Michael Siegel, and David Jones speak at a Community Forum on Gun Violence at the Boston University School of Public Health on March 14, 2018.

Public Health

SPH Holds Community Forum on Gun Violence

March 15, 2018

Sandro Galea

Health & Medicine

Why the Political Paralysis after So Many Gun Deaths?

March 12, 2018

Sex

New University-wide Mandatory Training on Sexual Misconduct

February 27, 2018

View of a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon

Science & Technology

Improving Life in Lebanon’s Refugee Camps

February 27, 2018

US surgeon general Jerome M. Adams speaking at the Boston University School of Public

Health & Medicine

SPH Seminar: US Surgeon General Urges More Aid for Opioid Addicts

January 29, 2018

Boston Cityscape

Public Policy

Leaders of US Cities Worried about Lack of Affordable Housing

January 24, 2018

Zakim Bridge Boston

Public Health

Air Pollution Inequality Growing in Massachusetts

January 12, 2018

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.

Physical Science

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

Global

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

Public Health

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

Food & Dining

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

Cost of Post 9/11 Wars: $4.6 Trillion