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Science & Technology

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest

Climate Change

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

March 21, 2017

President Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left.

Funding

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

March 21, 2017

Andreas Xenopoulos with local children on the Paseo de Prado.

Global Health

Cuban Culture Shapes a Spring Break Trip

March 20, 2017

Béla Suki, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, and Jarred Mondoñedo, Boston University School of Medicine MD candidate and College of Engineering PhD candidate

Biomedical Engineering

Emphysema: A New Way to Predict Treatment Outcomes?

March 10, 2017

Cara Stepp

Rehabilitation Sciences

Regaining a Voice

March 9, 2017

PhD candidate Emily Lam works with smart lighting sensors as part of Thomas Little's research with the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC)

Electrical Engineering

New Sensors for Smart Lighting

March 8, 2017

Free Doctor and Drinkable Water signs in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Eidomeni, Greece

Public Health

POV: Health Care Professionals Must Redouble Efforts to Care for Refugees

March 7, 2017

Gloria Waters, Vice President and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University, speaks during a meeting of the Boston Biosafety Committee to consider a request by Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) for permission to conduct Biosafety Level 4 research at the facility

NEIDL

NEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research

March 7, 2017

Boston University’s NEIDL still needs permission from the Boston Public Health Commission before conducting Biosafety Level 4 research.

Research

Boston Public Health Commission to Consider NEIDL Research Request Tonight

March 6, 2017

Economics professor and numismatist Pankaj Tandon holds a coin from ancient India under a magnifying glass

History

Economics Professor—and Noted Numismatist

March 6, 2017

a mother holding a newborn's hand

HIV-AIDS

New Concerns about Children Born to HIV-Infected Mothers

March 6, 2017

Human tissue under microscope

Engineering Biology

BU Joins Federal Effort to Engineer Human Tissue

March 2, 2017

Joseph Rezek

Music

“Hail to the Chief” Is No Simple Fanfare

March 1, 2017

Kira Ganga Gallagher and Aaron Eisman

University News

Grad Student’s Website Makes Political Activism Easy

March 1, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

Protesters in Berkeley, CA

Science & Technology

POV: Let Haters Speak. Then Disagree with Them.

February 27, 2017

Trump on left, Putin on right

Pardee School of Global Studies

US-Russian Relations Under the Microscope

February 23, 2017

Arctic Ground Squirrel

Archaeology

Arctic Squirrels: Invasive or Native Species?

February 22, 2017

Karen Allen in her office

Faculty

Office Artifacts: Karen Allen

February 22, 2017

Alexa Pisano showing her online store on a laptop

Academics

Selling Apparel to Benefit Ocean Conservation

February 21, 2017

Selling Apparel to Benefit Ocean Conservation