Boston University

Science & Technology

A group of men and women playing Pokemon Go

Smartphones

YouSpeak: What’s Behind the Pokémon Go Craze

July 19, 2016

Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoeniz, Arizona

Politics

POV: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Trump’s Foreign Policy

July 18, 2016

BU Sargent College student Grace Lei is hugged by children during a public health education trip to Ban Doi Chaang village in Thailand

Social Sciences

Sargent Students Witness Public Health in Thailand

July 14, 2016

E-cigarette vapor colored by lights

Politics

POV: New FDA Regulations on Vaping Products a Failure

July 13, 2016

Roscoe Giles, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Faculty

Someday, You’ll Have Supercomputing in Your Hand

July 11, 2016

Pheidole dentata minor worker ants

Biology

Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s

July 11, 2016

susan b. anthony dollar coin and john f. kennedy half-dollar coin

Computer Science

Calculating Gender Pay Equity

July 8, 2016

texas flag with Pro Choice message waves in front of the US Supreme Court

Politics

POV: SCOTUS Exposes the TRAP Laws Charade

July 7, 2016

Barbara Jordan, delivers the keynote address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention

Politics

Five Famous Alums: Politicians

July 6, 2016

Boston University cybersecurity experts Joseph Calandrino, Joseph Lorenzeo Hall, and Sharon Goldberg

Computational Science

Cybersecurity Experts Go to Washington

July 5, 2016

A spider-shaped pericyte, seen here in light blue, encircles a capillary, helping maintain the blood-brain barrier

Neurology

Genetic Risk for Stroke

June 30, 2016

T-shirt that says Vote Leave supporting the choice for UK to leave the EU

Politics

POV: Brexit Outcome Unlikely to Satisfy Anyone

June 28, 2016

Richard Primack at Walden Pond

Earth & Environment

Tracing Water Levels at Walden Pond

June 28, 2016

Professor David Sherr, director of a new BU/Tufts consortium researching environmental causes of breast cancer

Cancer

New Consortium to Study Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer

June 27, 2016

Embryologist preparing cultures

Fertility

Fertility Treatments Raise Risks for Mothers During Delivery

June 22, 2016

Students find out how the bucolic surroundings of Mount Auburn Cemetery fit into our social history in a class taught by Charles Ian Stevenson (GRS’13,’19).

Earth

One Class, One Day: Reading Mount Auburn Cemetery

June 21, 2016

Gun

Politics

POV: Studying Gun Violence to Save Lives

June 21, 2016

artisitic rendering of a Blazar in a Super Massive Black Hole

Space Sciences

Anatomy of a Blazar

June 20, 2016

silhouette of a hooded person brandishing a gun

Public Policy

POV: Gun Control, Another Place Where Race Matters

June 17, 2016

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh with Boston TechJam Workers in 2015

Music

Boston TechJam Returns to City Hall Plaza Today

June 16, 2016

Boston TechJam Returns to City Hall Plaza Today