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Awards

How to Be a Better Mentor

BU’s Sarah Hokanson, winner of the National Postdoctoral Association’s 2024 Gallagher Mentor Award, on helping others reach their goals

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Expert Take

Is COVID-19 Still a Pandemic?

Or is it becoming an endemic disease? A BU virologist, epidemiologist, and physician reflect on the status of the virus as the CDC cuts isolation period to 24 hours

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Does Boston Spanish Have Its Own Accent?

In an all-new episode of The Brink’s podcast, BU sociolinguist Daniel Erker discusses the forces that cause languages to change—like time, geography, and class

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Aging Reimagined

Rethinking Our Idea of “Old Age”

With baby boomers hitting their golden years, older adults are everywhere—including reality TV’s The Golden Bachelor. Here’s what we all need to know about our aging society

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Aging Reimagined

The Secrets of Living to 100

BU’s New England Centenarian Study delves into the lives of superagers to better understand why some people make it to their centennial—and to maybe help the rest of us do the same

Photo: This image shows microglia and astrocytes, components of our brain's immune system, in the heat of battle against those beta-amyloid protein plaques, the drivers of the concatenation of events presented above. Being able to study them at this level of detail will allow us to better understand the pathology and, hopefully in the near future, to develop effective therapies against the origin of the disease. Image taken with reflection confocal and/or scanning spectral fluorescence microscope LEICA Stellaris 8. Objective: HCX PL APO 63x/1.30 Glyc W.D. 0.30 mm. Composite made from 43 Z-planes with LASX 3D software and post-processed with FIJI.
Aging Reimagined

Can We Find a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease?

BU researchers are taking on this daunting question through a variety of approaches—and studying how to care for a growing population of people with the disease

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Aging Reimagined

Their Second Acts

In their encore careers and ongoing hobbies, these six BU alums are following their passions

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