After the CDC changed course in late July, recommending universal masking indoors, Nevada became the first state to adopt a flexible masking policy that can quickly adjust to changing COVID-19 rates.
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Boston University is no small operation: it has over 33,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 140 countries, 10,000 faculty and staff, 16 schools and colleges, and 250 fields of study. BU was founded in 1839.
Boston University offers bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, and doctorates, and medical, dental, business, and law degrees through eighteen schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus is situated along the Charles River in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore and Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus is in Boston’s South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study abroad programs in more than 33 cities in over twenty countries and has internship opportunities in ten different countries (including the United States).
The university counts seven Nobel Laureates including Martin Luther King, Jr. (PhD ‘55) and Elie Wiesel, 35 Pulitzer Prize winners, nine Academy Award winners, Emmy and Tony Award winners among its faculty and alumni. BU also has MacArthur, Sloan, and Guggenheim Fellowship holders as well as American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences members among its past and present graduates and faculty.
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An economist explains what a recession is, who decides and why it took so long to learn that the COVID-19 downturn was officially over.
The microbiologist who directs the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University explains all the biosafety precautions in place that help him feel safer in the lab than out.
Researchers had suspected that chemical hair relaxers might be behind racial disparities in breast cancer diagnoses. A new study narrows in on lye as a possible cause for that link.
To solve a problem like COVID-19, it is obviously essential to have accurate information about the true status of the situation.
Should people be compelled to take the vaccine? Should you feel guilty for skipping the line? And what about parts of the world where vaccines aren’t readably available? Ethicists have it covered.
Across the US, politicians, activists and transgender people are fighting over the right to access transgender medical care. Rarely is the care itself actually discussed. This is that discussion.
In the US, underage drinking accounts for a whopping US$17.5 billion worth of alcohol yearly. New research shows which companies take in most of this money and how little is spent on prevention.
Offering incentives to encourage good health behavior isn’t new, but it does raise concerns. A behavioral scientist explains how rewarding those taking a shot need not keep ethicists up at night.
Transgender youth have a number of research-backed medical options available to them. The multidisciplinary approach ranges from promoting family support to hormone treatments to surgery.
In American Sign Language, some words rhyme, some look like what they mean and some are used more often than others. A new database of these features paves a pathway for ASL research.
COVID-19 has underscored the value of parks and public spaces. A new survey shows that US mayors have gotten the message, but post-pandemic plans for public spaces remain largely undefined.
Building retrofits are no joke: They make dwellings healthier and more energy-efficient. And when they’re done in low-income housing, they also reduce inequality.
Too many patents and too little information about them makes it hard for the system to weed out patents that unfairly block inventors.
Trees and shrubs in cold-weather climates rely on certain signals, such as temperature and light, to know when to leaf out and bloom. Climate change is scrambling those signals.
Bluetooth wireless communication makes it possible to track when people have been exposed to people infected with the coronavirus. The right cryptography scheme keeps alerts about exposures private.
Il n’y aura pas de retour à la normale après la pandémie de Covid-19, en partie parce que le monde d’avant était tout sauf normal !
Il y a une montée en flèche des coûts énergétiques et financiers de la recherche en IA. Elle nécessite énormément de calculs pour apprendre à comprendre les données, autrement dit, pour s’entraîner.
There’s no going back to normal after COVID-19, partly because our pre-pandemic world was anything but normal.
Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it’s working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.
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Research Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Global Health, Boston University
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Professor of Neuroscience, Boston University
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Professor of the History of Christianity, Boston University
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Research Assistant in the Department of Global Health, Boston University
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Professor of Microbiology, Boston University
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Research associate professor in Global Health, Boston University
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Professor of Business Analytics, Boston University
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Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
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Senior Research Scientist, Boston University
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Associate Dean, Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement and Professor of the Practice, Boston University
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Senior Academic Researcher in Global Development Policy, Boston University
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Professor of Biology, Boston University
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PhD Candidate in Biology, Boston University
