BU Archaeologists Explore Turkey, and Blog About It
This summer, a team led by two Boston University archaeology professors has been working hard on an archaeological dig in Turkey, and when they’re not digging, they are blogging about digging. The...
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Securing the Cloud
The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC), a one-of-a-kind marketplace model for customizable public cloud offerings now being built a team of researchers from BU and several other universities, may soon...
View ArticleDiverse Disciplines Team Up for Neuroscience
Neuroscience is changing fast. Increasingly powerful imaging now allows researchers to scan brain structures with exquisite detail and make surprising discoveries about how neurons grow, interact, and...
View ArticleDesigning an Intelligent Urban Ecosystem
BU faculty, with help from business and government partners, will develop cloud computing–based services and products to solve urban problems ranging from traffic congestion to dirty air with a grant...
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Picturing a Long-Gone Citadel
In the Late Bronze Age, the walls of the citadel at Kaymakçı rose 10 feet above the jagged bedrock surrounding it. Behind the fortification was a community of homes, workshops, roads, plazas, and great...
View ArticleNSF CAREER Award Goes to ENG Prof
Thin rods and other active materials that can bend and fold on command are essential to the engineering of smart needles, soft robotic arms, and other flexible devices that can improve care in fields...
View ArticleBU Computer Expert Confabs with Feds on Cybersecurity
This is the summer of our cyber-discontent: earlier this month, the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disclosed a hack attack, believed to have originated in China, that raided personal data...
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Photonics Center Programs Promote Diversity in STEM Fields
Lauren Strong, a community college student from Pennsylvania, was searching for an internship that would allow her to develop her engineering skills and feel more at home in a lab. Local high school...
View ArticleBU Research Benefits from First Federal Funding Boost in Years
Christmas may have fallen on December 25 last year, but it came a week earlier for Ben Wolozin, when Congress passed its 2016 spending plan. The School of Medicine pharmacology professor had feared...
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Studying Climate Change One Tree at a Time
On a warm summer afternoon, Michael Dietze and his researchers leave their cars on the side of Bear Notch Road in Bartlett, N.H., and hike into the White Mountain National Forest. They navigate the...
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Searching for Life around the Stars
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 center BU helped create in...
View ArticleCAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions
BU’s Jeffrey Geddes has won two early career federal research awards totaling nearly $1 million to advance his work on atmospheric chemistry and air quality. Geddes, a College of Arts & Sciences...
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