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Awards

Three BU Researchers Win National Honor for Early-Career Scientists and Engineers

February 4, 2025

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

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Innovator of the Year

Ji-Xin Cheng Is BU’s 2022 Innovator of the Year

May 1, 2023

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Accolades

Two BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

January 24, 2023

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2022 in Review

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

December 12, 2022

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Memory Manipulation

Unlocking the Power of Our Emotional Memory

October 3, 2022

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Diagnosing Dementia

Two Technologies That Can Make Diagnosing Dementia Easier for Doctors and Patients

June 24, 2022

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Innovation

BU Entrepreneurs Are Moving Two New Medical Devices Closer to Market

October 13, 2021

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Neuroscience

How Sleep Is Impacted by Brain Circuitry and Aging

June 16, 2021

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Network Statistics

Data Science Is Helping to Explain Epileptic Seizures

June 11, 2020

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NEUROSCIENCE

A Picture-Perfect Look at How Electrical Activity Travels through the Brain

October 10, 2019

Neuroscience researcher Steve Ramirez holds a digital diagram of a brain.

Neuroscience

How Do You Manipulate a Memory?

September 11, 2019

Accolades

Two BU Researchers Honored by White House

August 23, 2019

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Systems Neuroscience

Could Rat Brains Hold the Secret to Cars, Robots with Better Navigational Skills?

July 23, 2019

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Accolades

BU Researchers Awarded Massachusetts Life Sciences Capital Grant

April 29, 2019

Neuroscience

As Memories Fade, Can We Supercharge Them Back to Life?

April 9, 2019

Neurotechnology

NSF Grant Will Advance Study of the Cocktail Party Effect

September 28, 2018

Engineering Biology

Science Gets a Front Door on Comm Ave

October 22, 2014

Boston University BU, Michael Hasselmo, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor of psychological and brain sciences, neuroscience, National Science Foundation

Neuroscience

Diverse Disciplines Team Up for Neuroscience

October 8, 2014

Optogenetics

Using Light to Diagnose Parkinson’s

July 28, 2014

Using Light to Diagnose Parkinson’s