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Health & Medicine

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

Medicine

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

Will Lautzenheiser (CAS’96, COM’07) (left) with his partner, Angel Gonzalez

Accessibility

Double Arm Transplant Recipient Will Lautzenheiser at BU Tonight

December 1, 2017

microscopic image of tau tangles

Alzheimer’s Disease

MED Researchers: New Way to Look at Alzheimer’s

November 30, 2017

An on-stage scene in all-female production of Julius Caesar

Health & Medicine

All-Female Julius Caesar Calls to Friends, Romans, Countrywomen

November 29, 2017

Julia Roberts on People's cover in 1991 and 2017

Health & Medicine

Older and Nonwhite Celebrities on People’s “World’s Most Beautiful” List

November 28, 2017

a man and woman exchange money

Voices & Opinion

POV: We Don’t Have All the Answers about Commercial Sex Policy

November 28, 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

Alcohol

BUPD

Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2017

November 21, 2017

Red Bull Nutrition Label

Politics

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

Public Health

POV: Stop Blaming the Poor for Their Poverty

November 16, 2017

A magnetized pouch that Boston University lecturer Joelle Renstrom uses to lock up student cell phones during class

Social Media

Surviving Class minus Your Cell Phone

November 14, 2017

Allison Zuckerberg, President of the BU chapter of Actively Moving Forward holds a lollipop that says Grief Sucks

Therapy

Assisting Students Grieving the Loss of a Loved One

November 13, 2017

Maria Vertkin, founder of the Found in Translation nonprofit organization that trains low-income women to become medical interpreters

Public Health

Helping Immigrants Understand Their Doctors

November 13, 2017

massachusetts map

Social Sciences

Mapping Mass Incarceration

November 6, 2017

Lydia Barnett-Mulligan as Simone and Amanda Collins as Devon in the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre production of Elemeno Pea. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky

Arts & Culture

Hard Truths Wash Up on the Vineyard

November 2, 2017

Biology

Avrum Spira Leads “Stand Up to Cancer” Dream Team

November 1, 2017

A panel of BU community experts will offer advice and information at the Wellness and Prevention Services annual Sex in the Dark event tonight. Students can submit their questions in advance anonymously. Photo by Frank Curran

Students

Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask

October 30, 2017

Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask