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Composite image of 2020 NSF CAREER Award winners from Boston University

NSF CAREER Awards

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

August 5, 2020

Biomedical engineers in BU professor Allyson Sgro’s lab participated in a workshop to develop individualized action plans and then joined up in person with other members of the community. Together, they met up with a #ShutDownSTEM/Black Lives Matter march walking from Roxbury’s Nubian Square to Boston City Hall.

STEM ON STRIKE

BU Researchers #ShutDownSTEM to Combat Racism

June 12, 2020

Using photolysis—a process by which molecules are broken down by light—BU engineers found they could temporarily weaken MRSA’s defenses enough to make it vulnerable again to several conventional antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance

Why Phototherapy Will Be the Next Frontier in Combating Antibiotic Resistance

May 21, 2020

Portrait of Azer Bestavros who looks through a chain link fence towards the site of BU's new Data Sciences building.

Computational Science

Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind

March 4, 2020

A portrait photo of Merav Opher, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of astronomy.

Space Sciences

Visualizing the Heliosphere, Our Solar System’s Protective Bubble

February 21, 2020

Portrait of Alison Gammie, director at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Career Development

Alison Gammie Wants to Help BU’s Postdocs and Junior Faculty Map Out Their Career Paths

February 11, 2020

A photo of Salvatore Pace leaning back in a chair.

Science & Technology

A Coveted Scholarship for a Physics Standout

February 10, 2020

Joyce Wong at the podium delivering the Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecture at Boston University in 2017

Women in STEM

Here’s How to Really Improve Gender Diversity in STEM Research

November 12, 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

Mark Greenman

STEM Education

Physics for All: An Online Class Is Expanding the Gateway to STEM

October 15, 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

STEM

BU Provost Speaks on Capitol Hill about Sexual Harassment in STEM

June 17, 2019

Angela Seliga

STEM

Office Artifacts: Angela Seliga

May 8, 2019

A portrait of Rachel Petherbridge

Awards

No Obstacle Too Steep for BU’s First Mitchell Scholar

December 18, 2018

AI4All students learn in the classroom

STEM

Introducing High School Women to the World of Artificial Intelligence

August 27, 2018

Advisors judge the towers.

STEM

How Do Questrom Students Learn Team Creativity in an Engineering Facility?

July 18, 2018

Alice Gast

Engineering

Imperial College London President: STEM Must Attract Girls Early

May 14, 2018

Physical Science

President of Imperial College London to Give ARROWS Lecture

May 9, 2018

Josiah Sherman, an undergraduate majoring in biology at Xavier University, in New Orleans, explaining his research at Xavier’s 2017 summer research symposium. As part of a new NSF grant to engage underrepresented minorities in exploring STEM careers, the BU School of Medicine will offer opportunities for Xavier students to meet with researchers at BU.

University News

BU Promotes Diversity in STEM Fields with NSF Grants

November 20, 2017

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LGBTQ+

Is Science Too Straight?

October 11, 2017

Is Science Too Straight?