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University News

BU Backs Lawsuit to Halt National Science Foundation Funding Cuts

May 8, 2025

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Global Health

BU Launches an Open-Source Infectious Diseases Monitoring Tool Powered by AI and Human Experts

April 23, 2025

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Hearing Loss

Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New BU-Developed Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users

April 22, 2025

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Science & Technology

BU Students Find Hope at COP29 UN Climate Summit

December 5, 2024

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Awards

BU Team Wins Major National Science Foundation Grant to Help PhD Students Attack Climate Change

August 22, 2024

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Awards

ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards

July 25, 2024

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NSF CAREER Awards

Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work

June 27, 2024

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CAREER Awards

BU’s 5 NSF Grant Winners Are Changing Conversations in Robotics, Computing, Mass Incarceration, Neurology, and More

June 23, 2023

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Heart Health

The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure

May 31, 2022

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Heart Health

New Miniature Heart Could Help Speed Heart Disease Cures

April 22, 2022

NSF CAREER Awards

5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design

June 30, 2021

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NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

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Research

What’s the Future of Student Financial Aid?

February 12, 2020

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Accolades

Meet BU’s Six CAREER Award Recipients

October 22, 2019

David Boas, neurophotonics and fNIRS pioneer, and director of the Boston University Neurophotonics Center

Engineering

Lighting Up the Brain

May 11, 2018

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Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

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Engineering

BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center

September 12, 2017

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Science & Technology

NSF Program Brings Budding Astronomers to BU

July 21, 2017

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Linguistics & Language Sciences

Getting the Word In

March 6, 2017

Ben Wolozin

National Science Foundation

BU Research Benefits from First Federal Funding Boost in Years

January 25, 2016

BU Research Benefits from First Federal Funding Boost in Years