Boston University Announces New Convergent Research Programs
New funding opportunities and a cluster hiring push are the first projects to emerge from […]
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BU Ignition Award Winners’ Innovations Could Reduce Knee Pain, Extend Lives of Cancer Patients, and Propel Underwater Robots
Annual entrepreneurship awards given to research projects ready to make the leap from the lab […]
Helping Create Special Education Policies to Benefit Students and Teachers
Researchers at Boston University’s Wheelock Educational Policy Center are studying ways to improve teacher retention […]
New Video Game Could Help Reveal How People with Autism Perceive the World
Boston University researchers built a game that can be played by people across the autism […]
How Scientists Are Helping Restore Forests After a Wildfire
Boston University biologist Jennifer Bhatnagar is studying ways to help California and other states recover […]
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You Are Why.
You are why we educate, research, and invest: so we can better serve society, so we can generate life-changing new knowledge, and so we all can succeed.
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Wilson W. Wong
College of Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering -
Cheryl Knott
College of Arts & Sciences Professor, Anthropology, Biology, and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies -
Nathan Jones
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Associate Dean of Research Professor, Special Education -
Venetia Zachariou
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Edward Avedisian Professor and Chair, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics -
Marcus A. Winters
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Chair and Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Faculty Director, Wheelock Educational Policy Center -
Deborah Carr
College of Arts & Sciences A&S Distinguished Professor, Sociology Director, Center of Innovation in Social Science -
Darrell Kotton
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University -
Lucy Hutyra
College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Chair, Earth & Environment -
Daniel Taub
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics -
Elizabeth Bettini
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Associate Professor, Special Education -
Tommaso Ranzani
College of Engineering Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering -
Jo R. King
Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies -
Michael Albro
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering -
Kenneth Lutchen
Vice President and Associate Provost for Research -
Thomas Bifano
College of Engineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering Director, Photonics Center -
David Bishop
College of Engineering Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, Materials Science Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering Director, CELL-MET Engineering Research Center -
Keith A. Brown
College of Engineering Division Head, Materials Science & Engineering Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Physics -
Daniel Cifuentes
Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Associate Professor, Biochemistry, and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology -
Yuwei Fan
Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Research Associate Professor and Research Operations Director, Restorative Sciences & Biomaterials -
Miguel Jimenez
College of Engineering Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering -
John A. Porco, Jr.
College of Arts & Sciences Samour Family Professor, Organic Chemistry Director, Center for Molecular Discovery
Indonesian Borneo Wildfires Endanger Orangutans—and Research Station Dedicated to their Conservation
Boston University biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott has spent decades studying the great apes’ habitat in Borneo and says fires may threaten essential food sources