Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and...
2023 in Review Best of The Brink 2023: 10 Life-Changing Inventions, Amazing Discoveries, and Surprising Findings from BU Researchers Using AI to treat hypertension, how life begins on the edge of...
View ArticleInnocent Mole or Skin Cancer? FDA Clears Device with BU-Developed Technology...
The DermaSensor was given a priority review by the FDA, because “they see it as having a real impact,” says BU’s Irving J. Bigio. Photo courtesy of DermaSensor/Business Wire Skin Cancer Innocent Mole...
View ArticleBU Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon Daniel Roh Receives Emerging Leader...
BU’s Daniel Roh will use his National Institute on Aging award to advance work to “improve the delayed wound healing of aging.” Photo courtesy of Roh Awards BU Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon...
View ArticleCARB-X Funds 100th Project—a Milestone for BU-Based Nonprofit Leading...
The World Health Organization has flagged the resistance of bacteria like Klebsiella pneumoniae to antibiotics as a major concern. BU-based CARB-X, which just funded its 100th project, aims to...
View ArticleWhat Causes Osteoarthritis? BU Researchers Win $46 Million Grant to Pursue...
Photo by ojoel/iStock Osteoarthritis What Causes Osteoarthritis? BU Researchers Win $46 Million Grant to Pursue Answers and Find New Treatments National Institute on Aging award to support research...
View ArticleBU Electrical Engineer Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
New Guggenheim Fellow Vivek Goyal, a College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering. Awards BU Electrical Engineer Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow The award...
View ArticleThree BU Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows
Since 1874, more than 110 BU scholars have been named AAAS Fellows. The latest members of this distinguished group are electrical and computer engineer Siddharth Ramachandran (from left), physicist...
View ArticleBU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy,...
Thomas Bifano, an ENG professor of mechanical engineering, is the cofounder of Boston Micromachines Corporation, a company specializing in deformable mirrors that he spun out of his BU lab 25 years...
View ArticleIs AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?
Photo by Lidiia Moor/iStock Artificial Intelligence Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views? BU computer scientists will use support from first-of-its-kind...
View ArticleBU Researcher Named a 2024 Hertz Fellow; Award Honors “Innovators with the...
Hertz Fellow Emmy Blumenthal says the opportunity to conduct research as a BU undergraduate was fundamental to “forming my intellectual identity.” Photo courtesy of Blumenthal Awards BU Researcher...
View ArticleWhat the History of Boston’s Harbor Can Teach Us about Its Uncertain Future
Boston History What the History of Boston’s Harbor Can Teach Us about Its Uncertain Future Rising tides threaten Boston’s waterfront, but BU PhD candidate Genna Kane says the city has a history of...
View ArticleBU Team Wins Major National Science Foundation Grant to Help PhD Students...
Intense flooding in Connecticut (left) and wildfires in Colorado (right) are recent examples of extreme weather events that researchers will use to explore solutions to climate change. Photos via...
View Article2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market
This year’s awards support six different projects and come with coaching and mentoring from industry veterans. Photo by Bob O’Connor Innovation Awards 2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and...
View ArticleInauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars...
At the Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap event, 12 of BU’s leading researchers gave quick-fire talks about their work and its potential impact on the world. Inauguration 2024 Inauguration 2024...
View ArticleBrink Bites: BU Research Beyond the Headlines
Living in greener areas in middle age may help slow cognitive decline in later life, according to a new BU School of Public Health–led study. Photo via iStock/DaveBolton Research News Brink Bites BU...
View ArticleBU Biomedical Engineer Wins a 2024 National Institutes of Health Director’s...
Alexander A. Green, a BU College of Engineering associate professor of biomedical engineering, says the NIH award will enable research that is “pushing the frontiers.” Awards BU Biomedical Engineer...
View ArticleGlobal Biopharma Giant GSK and BU Announce Collaboration to Pioneer New Lung...
Researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and Boston Medical Center (CReM), including (from left) Kostas Alysandratos, Darrell Kotton, and Andrea Alber, will collaborate...
View ArticleBrink Bites: From Microscopic Worlds to Cancer Disparities
This image by graduate student Quan Do (CAMED’26) of a brightly stained cross section of a rat brain won the inaugural Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering’s research...
View ArticleBU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get Major Upgrade with...
Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). Photo by Boston University Photography Infectious Diseases BU’s Leading Home for Infectious Diseases Research to Get...
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