A brief window of opportunity exists to shape the development of cities globally before a boom in infrastructure construction transforms urban land cover, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Karen Jacobs, a Boston University Sargent College occupational therapy professor and former president of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), will be conducting “weigh-ins” at a Boston area school to ensure that the weight of kids’ backpacks exceeds no more than 10% of their body weight. This annual event helps educate children, parents, school administrators, teachers, and the community about the serious health problems associated with wearing a backpack incorrectly.
Boston University is home to a new Autism Center of Excellence (ACE). The ACE will be funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Researchers will focus on helping autistic people without spoken language skills.
Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimated the maximum amount of ice likely to be found inside a permanently shadowed lunar crater located near the moon's south pole. As much as 5 to 10 percent of material, by weight, could be patchy ice, according to the team of researchers led by Bradley Thomson at Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing.
Boston University undergraduate researcher Rob Marchwinski and his colleagues in BU’s Astronomy Department may have found the answer to a universal question: Why aren’t there more stars?
$500,000 MacArthur Grant Will Help Cambodians Use Waterways and Fisheries More Sustainably
Findings have promising implications for development of terahertz semi-conductors and other applications
In April, BU and the National University of Singapore (NUS) launched a research collaboration to probe the properties and potential uses of graphene. Researchers believe graphene can revolutionize everything from touchscreens to medical imaging devices to electrical circuits.
In August of 2005, the Mars Express spacecraft was dutifully sending back data on the stratigraphy of the upper regions of the Martian crust when its signal kept getting interrupted. NASA scientists wanted to know why. Now, a study by Boston University College of Arts & Sciences researchers provides a clear answer.
A delegation of Boston University (BU) faculty, including the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, joined other Discovery Channel Telescope partners this weekend to celebrate the new telescope’s “first light” (first observation of a distant astronomical object).
Boston University researchers at Sargent College and the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (CPR) in partnership with the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (Dartmouth PRC) have received a $2.7 million grant over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study the effect of cognitive skills enhancement technology on the existing supported employment model.
On June 5, Venus will make one of its rare transits across the surface of the sun. The Boston University Astronomy Department and BU Center for Space Research will host an event to allow as many visitors as possible a safe glimpse of this event.
Having recently looked at more than a thousand of the least-changed regions in the genomes of turtles and their closest relatives, a team of Boston University researchers has confirmed that turtles are most closely related to crocodilians and birds rather than to lizards, snakes, and tuataras.
An international consortium of researchers, including Boston University Assistant Professor of Biology Sean Mullen, has discovered promiscuous sharing of large regions of DNA code among species by sequencing the genome of a South American butterfly.
Excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultún in Guatemala’s Petén region, a team of archaeologists discover house whose inside wall are covered with tiny red and black glyphs that appear to represent the various calendrical cycles charted that extend beyon 2012.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the School of Theatre at Boston University are proud to announce a new Master of Fine Arts Degree in Playwriting. This collaboration—the only one of its kind in universities and colleges across the nation—combines resources from both these award-winning programs for the first time.
The Boston University Executive MBA Program (EMBA) has released its first custom iPad application to provide current and prospective students with enhanced access to information and tools.
Boston University School of Management placed 18th overall in the Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of United States undergraduate programs, an improvement of 13 positions from last year and the 4th highest improvement of any school. This is the highest placement the School has ever received and represents the fourth consecutive year of improvement in the ranking.
A team of researchers has just published a new paper, lead authored by Boston University Professor of Earth Sciences Richard W. Murray, that provides compelling evidence from marine sediment that supports the theory that iron in the Earth’s oceans has a direct impact on biological productivity, potentially affecting the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and, in turn, atmospheric temperature. These findings have been published in the March 11, 2012 online edition of the journal Nature Geoscience.
The BU research team and collaborators recently discovered a promising new protein target for chemotherapy in the treatment of liver cancer—the transcription factor LSF. (Transcription factors are regulatory proteins that bind genomic DNA near the start of genes, either promoting or inhibiting the transcription or copying of the gene.) LSF is found in high levels in the tumor tissue of patients with liver cancer and has been demonstrated to promote the development of cancer (oncogenesis) in studies using laboratory rodents.
The underrepresentation of women in science has received significant attention. However, there have been few studies in which longitudinal data were used to assess changes over time. In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience, Richard B. Primack, professor of biology at Boston University; Krista L. McGuire, assistant professor of biological sciences at Barnard College, Columbia University; and Elizabeth C. Losos, adjunct professor at Duke University and president and CEO of the Organization for Tropical Studies, find that women in the field of ecological studies have experienced dramatic improvements, but persistent challenges remain.
In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience, Richard B. Primack, professor of biology at Boston University, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, science coordinator at the Acadia National Park and the Schoodic Education and Research Center, National Park Service, show how unconventional sources of data, including historical documents, can be used to extend investigations of environmental change back to the 19th century.
The Boston Foundation selected BU’s Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership for a $100,000 ‘Out of the Blue’ grant in recognition of its work training present and future nonprofit leaders.
Boston University astrophysicist Elizabeth Blanton led a team of researchers in the discovery of vast clouds of hot gas "sloshing" in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. The scientists are studying the hot (30 million degree) gas using X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The team’s findings were first published in the August 20, 2011 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
Findings provide a better understanding of the effects of normal aging, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases on the performance of everyday cognitive tasks.
Jean-Loup Bertaux, a researcher at Boston University’s Center for Space Physics, is a member of an international team of astronomers who have detected for the first time ultraviolet (UV) emissions of neutral hydrogen within the Earth’s own galaxy, the Milky Way.
Boston University and 90.9 WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, have announced that NPR correspondent David Greene is the winner of the 2011 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. Now in its tenth year, the prize is named for the late NPR senior news analyst and veteran Washington journalist Daniel Schorr, who passed away in 2010.
In an article to be published in the November 2, 2011 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience (31(44):15757–15767; DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2287-11.2011), a team of researchers at Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School present evidence that a dynamic, metastable frequency-band-dependent scaffold of brain function-al connectivity exists from which transient activity emerges and recedes.
Association for Consumer Research Cites fournier’s branding article for its impact and longevity.
Boston University researchers, in a paper published in the journal Nature Chemistry, present a new approach to accessing new, biorelevant structures by "remodelling" natural products. In this case, they demonstrate how the natural product derivative fumagillol can been remodelled to access a collection of new molecules using highly efficient chemical reactions.
Researchers at Boston University have made discoveries that provide the foundation towards novel approaches to control insects that transmit deadly diseases such as dengue fever and malaria through their study of the Wolbachia bacteria. Their findings have been published in the current issue of Science Express, an online publication of selected papers in advance of the print edition of Science, the main journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Robert L. Spangenberg, a pioneering champion of legal rights for the poor and advisor to states and bar associations on the subject of legal aid for the indigent, is returning to the Boston University School of Law faculty after four successful decades of working to improve the access to quality of representation for those unable to afford counsel in civil or criminal cases.
Boston University researchers have estimated the impact near term increases in global-mean temperatures will have on summertime temperatures here in the U.S. and around the globe.
Three new Boston University professors have been selected by Provost Jean Morrison as this year’s recipients of the prestigious Peter Paul Professorships, providing $40,000 each for three years for unrestricted support for their scholarly and creative work as they launch their academic careers.
BU researchers find that modeling errors produced exaggerated claims.
Small businesses overpay for health insurance according to a paper in American Economic Review by researchers from Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School of Management, Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, and Boston University School of Management.
Boston University and the University of Warwick, UK will hold a conference on Socially Responsible Licensing: Using Voluntary Licensing.
Boston University School of Medicine Associate Prof. Avrum Spira has won the university’s 2011 Innovator of the Year award which recognizes a BU faculty member whose cutting-edge research and ideas lead to the formation of companies that benefit society at large.
The Boston University Boston High School Scholarship Program, the nation’s oldest and largest scholarship program for urban public high school students, has presented 16 recent graduates of Boston public high schools a total of more than $2.6 million worth of four-year, full-tuition scholarships. The program has awarded more than $135 million in scholarships to 1,775 students since being created in 1973 by then President John Silber.
Boston University and San Francisco software firm Mytrus today announced an agreement for Mytrus to purchase the exclusive rights to BU’s patented method for more efficiently managing clinical trials remotely over the Internet from a single coordinating center.
The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Evidence of this new type of neutrino oscillation may lead the way to new studies of a matter/ anti-matter asymmetry called charge-parity (CP) violation.
According to NASA, the latest Voyager data suggests that the picture of this previously unexplored region—so critical for understanding how cosmic rays are created and reach near-Earth space—needs to be revised. Galactic cosmic rays are of concern for human space travel, in particular during the quiet periods called the solar minimum.
Earlier this year, Boston University researchers and collaborators conducted a mobile greenhouse gas audit in Boston and found hundreds of natural gas leaks under the streets and sidewalks of Greater Boston. Nathan Phillips, associate professor of geography and environment and director of BU’s Center for Environmental and Energy Studies (CEES), and his research partners will present these and related findings at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Global Monitoring Annual Conference, May 17-18 in Boulder, Colorado.
Boston University researchers discover that a simple compound — sugar – dramatically boosts the effectiveness of first-line antibiotics. Their findings appear in the May 12 issue of Nature.
A joint study by academics in Switzerland, Germany and at Boston University sheds new light on the formation of financial bubbles and crashes. The study reveals a general empirical law quantifying market behavior near bubbles and crashes.
In a paper to be published today [April 29, 2011] in the journal “Science,” a team of Boston University researchers under the direction of Michael Hasselmo, professor of psychology and director of Boston University’s Computational Neurophysiology Laboratory, and Mark Brandon, a recent graduate of the Graduate Program for Neuroscience at Boston University, present findings that support the hypothesis that spatial coding by grid cells requires theta rhythm oscillations, and dissociates the mechanisms underlying the generation of entorhinal grid cell periodicity and head-direction selectivity.
BU College of Arts & Sciences Paleoclimatologist Maureen Raymo and colleagues published findings that should help scientists better estimate the level of sea level rise during a period of high atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3 million years ago.
Experts review Voyager program’s findings as the twin probes approach interstellar space.
Ocean-Oil.org is a free, open-access, peer-reviewed electronic education resource about the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Analysis published this week in the journal Science shows how declines of bat populations caused by a new wildlife disease and fatalities at industrial-scale wind turbines could lead to substantial economic losses on the farm.
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