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Boston University BU, Beverly A. Brown professorship, trustee Richard Shipley 4 million dollar gift, Campaign for BU, Office of Technology Development

University News

Trustee Richard Shipley’s Gift Creates Beverly Brown Professorship

March 5, 2013

Boston University BU, breastfeeding health and economic benefits, sexualization breastfeeding

Medicine

Why Media Depiction of Breasts Gets Failing Grade

February 21, 2013

Boston University BU, Teaching the Body: Artistic Anatomy in the American Academy, from Copley, Rimmer, and Eakins to Contemporary Artists, College of Fine Arts CFA, Stone Gallery

Exhibitions

Teaching the Body

February 13, 2013

Boston University BU, Ahmad Mo Khalil assistant professor, biomedical engineering department, Science Works For U.S., Association of American Universities AAU, Science Coalition, Association of Public, Land-grant Universities

Medicine

BU Video Urges Stop! to Looming Research Cuts

February 7, 2013

Boston University School of Medicine BUSM, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless

Public Health

Medicine with a Mission

February 7, 2013

Boston University BU, professors, Mark Grinstaff, Theodore Moustakas, Barbara Gilchrest, James Collins, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, biomedical engineer, chemistry, National Academy of Inventors

Medicine

National Academy of Inventors Elects Four BU Profs

January 30, 2013

Boston University BU, faculty assistant professor Jennifer Green, School of Education SED, special education, teenage suicide prevention, dialectic behavior therapy, personality disorders, reduce self endangering behaviors

Research

Preventing Teenage Suicide

January 28, 2013

Boston University BU, school of medicine MED associate professor, chief of computational biomedicine, Avrum Spira, Rebecca Kusko, rise in lung cancer incidence nonsmokers

CAMED

Never Smoked. Lived Right. Died of Lung Cancer.

January 22, 2013

Corey R J Stephenson, assistant professor of chemistry, Boston University College of Arts and Science, Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry, leukemia cells, antibiotic resistant bacteria

Science & Technology

CAS Prof Wins Novartis Award

January 14, 2013

Boston University BU, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories NEIDL, National Institutes of Health NIH issued Supplemental Record of Decision, research facility risk assessment

Health & Medicine

NEIDL a Step Closer to Wider Operation

January 7, 2013

Boston University BU, Student Health Services, cold flu, antibiotics no effect on viral infection, increase incidence antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection

Medicine

Cold or Flu? Don’t Ask for Antibiotics

December 13, 2012

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, Eugene Lee, home care visit geriatric patients Boston, public health

Public Health

House Calls and a Higher Purpose

December 4, 2012

Boston University BU, engineering, synthetic biology, James Collins, Doug Densmore, mechanical engineering, microbiotic robots, BU Center for Biodynamics, Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Engineering

Life Is Suite

December 3, 2012

Boston University BU obesity research, brown fat, Boston Medical Center, BMC nutrition and weight management center, Caroline Apovian Megan Ruth research

CAMED

The Cure for Obesity: Fat?

November 28, 2012

post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD in soldiers, U.S. Armed Forces, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

Public Health

Reaching Vets Falling through the Cracks

November 12, 2012

health insurance benefits, healthcare, health care

Staff

Some Employees Face Higher Medical Costs Next Year

November 8, 2012

Boston University BU, engineering innovations, Muhammas Zaman Lab for Engineering Education & Development LEED, research

Health & Medicine

Into Africa

November 5, 2012

Boston University BU School of Dental Medicine SDM, halloween candy and cavities prevention

Faculty

Preventing Zombie Mouth

October 30, 2012

Boston University Synthetic Biology research and engineering, Professor James Collins, Collins Lab

Science & Technology

ENG’s Collins Elected to Institute of Medicine

October 16, 2012

Boston University BU, Marcia Angell, physician assisted suicide, Massachusetts Ballot, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School

Science & Technology

Physician-Assisted Suicide on the Massachusetts Ballot

October 15, 2012

Physician-Assisted Suicide on the Massachusetts Ballot