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7,609

publications in 2024

200 +

companies developing and selling products based on BU discoveries

$ 574.25 M

total research awards in FY25

AAU

1 of 71 members of the Association of American Universities

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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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Featured Researchers

Meet the brilliant minds behind our groundbreaking research.

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  • Wilson Wong

    Wilson W. Wong

    College of Engineering Professor, Biomedical Engineering
  • Helen Tager-Flusberg

    Helen Tager-Flusberg

    College of Arts & Sciences Director, Center for Autism Research Excellence Professor Emerita, Psychological & Brian Sciences
  • Nathan Jones

    Nathan Jones

    Wheelock College of Education & Human Development Associate Dean of Research Professor, Special Education
  • Deborah Carr

    Deborah Carr

    College of Arts & Sciences A&S Distinguished Professor, Sociology Director, Center of Innovation in Social Science
  • Joseph McGuire

    Joseph McGuire

    College of Arts & Sciences Psychological & Brain Sciences
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    Lucy Hutyra

    College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Chair, Earth & Environment
  • Benjamin Scott

    Benjamin Scott

    College of Arts & Sciences Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
  • Image of Darrell Kotton

    Darrell Kotton

    Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Boston University
  • Kenneth Lutchen

    Kenneth Lutchen

    Vice President and Associate Provost for Research
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BU Wheelock Professor Reflects on Serving as Commissioner of the National Center for Special Education Research

Nathan Jones on what he learned from leading a federal agency during a period of change and why researchers—and universities—need to become better public storytellers

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