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Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

NSF CAREER Awards

BU’s 2022 NSF CAREER Award Winners Are Innovating Data Systems and Single-Molecule Circuits

December 13, 2022

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Photo: ENG professor of electrical and computer engineering, Josh Semeter poses for photo in his lab on Wednesday, January 20, 2016. A white man with silver grey hair sits with hands folded in front of him and resting on a desk cluttered with papers, wires, and various hardware constructs. He wears a dark green sweater. A lab filled with random mechanics is shown behind him as a large blue and white spaceship banner hangs on the wall behind him.

UFO

BU Astrophysicist Joins NASA Team to Study UFOs

November 21, 2022

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Climate Change

POV: Local Climate Action Matters Now More than Ever

November 15, 2022

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Research Labs

What Happened to the Robots in BU’s COVID-19 Testing Lab? They’re Getting a New Mission

November 15, 2022

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Accolades

BU Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez Given $1.15 Million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award

October 20, 2022

Collage: Side by side photo of two BU Researchers. (left) Mary Willis, a School of Public Health assistant professor of epidemiology, and recipient of a 2022 NIH Director’s Award. She leans, smiling, against a brick wall with hands in pockets. She wears an olive green shirt and black pants. (right) Hadi T. Nia, College of Engineering assistant professor of biomedical engineering, poses for a photo with arms crossed. He wears an ocean blue blazer and smiles for the camera in front of a blurry landscape of plants.

Accolades

NIH Honors Two BU Researchers “Poised to Blaze New Paths of Discovery”

October 18, 2022

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Latinx Researchers

Seven BU Latinx Researchers Making a Difference

October 3, 2022

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Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

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Kilachand Fund

The Kilachand Fund’s Impact on Science’s Biggest Challenges

September 26, 2022

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Brain Health

New BU Center for Brain Recovery Aims to Advance Treatments for Stroke, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s

September 19, 2022

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NEIDL Director

Nancy J. Sullivan, Ebola Vaccine and Treatment Pioneer, Named New NEIDL Director

September 16, 2022

Ribbon cutting event for the Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering September 14, 2017. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Administration

“A Lasting Legacy of Excellence”: Reflections on President Brown’s Impact on BU Research

September 8, 2022

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Law & Innovation

How Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks May Stifle Creativity and Progress

August 16, 2022

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Astronomy

“A New Era of Discovery”: We Can Now See the Deepest Infrared View of Space Ever

July 13, 2022

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COVID-19

BU’s Nahid Bhadelia Joins White House COVID Response Team

July 13, 2022

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Refugees

America the Miserly: How Our Refugee System Fails Desperate People

June 27, 2022

Photo of Pamela Templer (center), Shawn Jones (left), and Yasmin Romitti. From left, a tall Black man with glasses, a dark grey blazer, purpled collared shirt and black pants stands next to a shorter white woman with arms crossed wearing black blouse and pants and red cardigan, and on right a younger, shorter white woman wearing a black and white polka dot shirt and jeans. They all stand, pose, and smile next to each other.

Climate Change

Building a Diverse, Strong Climate Workforce

June 10, 2022

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Technology Development

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life

June 6, 2022

BU Ignition Awards–From the Lab to Your Life