Searching for Life around the Stars
BU researcher studies M Dwarfs for clues Is there life out there? Mark Veyette studies the most common star type in our solar system for clues. Photo by Cydney Scott. To the epic search for life on other planets, Mark Veyette brings some of science’s most formidable technology: 300-pound infrared telescopes in Hawaii. The supercomputer […]
NSF Awards $3 Million for Research Traineeship Grant
Will prepare a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists to tackle urban environmental problems Boston University faculty Lucy Hutyra (from left), Pamela Templer, and Jonathan Levy are leading an NSF Research Traineeship program aimed at providing graduate students the technical, policy, and communications skills needed to help cities address multidimensional environmental and public health issues. Photo […]
Three NSF Grants Will Promote Diversity in STEM
Medical school will guide students from underrepresented groups to career paths beyond medicine Left to right: Linda Hyman, associate provost for MED’s Division of Graduate Medical Sciences; Sarah Hokanson, BU director of professional development and postdoctoral affairs, and Pamela Templer, a CAS professor of biology, are each principal investigators on National Science Foundation grants aimed […]
BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center
Goal is personalized heart tissue for clinical use A cardiac patch. The ERC’s ultimate goal is to advance nano-bio-manufacturing methods that could lead to large-scale fabrication of functional heart tissue, which could replace diseased or damaged muscle after a heart attack. Illustration courtesy of Jeroen Eyckmans. Boston University has won a $20 million, five-year award […]
CAS Physicists Uncover Swimming Secrets of H. pylori
How the ulcer- and cancer-causing bacterium survives the stomach Rama Bansil (left) and Maira Constantino study how the shape of H. pylori shape contributes to its swimming ability. Their work could impact the fields of drug delivery and cancer treatment. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. While not as inspiring as the heart or as mysterious as the brain, […]
NSF Program Brings Budding Astronomers to BU
Students paired with faculty on research projects BU’s Merav Opher meets with Mark Hubbert and Matt Schuler, students visiting campus through a National Science Foundation program that lets them access University resources in astronomy and space physics. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Many of us thrill to the breathtaking views of outer space permitted by telescopes and spacecraft. […]
BU Relaunches Search for Permanent SED Dean
Catherine O’Connor to serve as 2017–2018 interim dean Catherine O’Connor, a School of Education professor of language education, has been appointed SED dean ad interim for one year, starting July 1. Photo by Cydney Scott. Boston University will relaunch its search for a new dean of the School of Education in the coming academic year, […]
Congress Resists Research Cuts
2017 budget seen as hopeful preview for next round: 2018 funding
Neurophotonics Center: Advancing Understanding of the Brain
New BU entity will have faculty from both campuses David Boas, founding director of the Neurophotonics Center and an ENG professor, comes to BU from Mass General Hospital. Photo (left) by Scott Nobles. The understanding of the human brain has leaped forward in recent years, with the help of the emerging field of neurophotonics, a […]
Improving Your Relationship with Federal Research Agencies
Every federal research agency is different. This March 2017 workshop from Research and Federal Relations explained how to work with different funders to give you the best possible chance to receive support for your research. Presenters from BU Federal Relations and Washington, DC, consulting firm Lewis-Burke Associates described most successful ways to introduce yourself or […]