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Jan 15, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Jessica Colarossi |Devin Hahn
Watch launch footage and reactions as NASA’s Blue Ghost moon lander, carrying a BU-created X-ray telescope, blasts off into space Twitter Facebook At 1:11 am on January 15, NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft blasted into the sky from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and destined for the moon.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Andrew Thurston |Jackie Ricciardi
What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure? What If You Could Use Light to Monitor Blood Pressure? BU student Natalie Lett explains the science and engineering behind researcher Darren Roblyer’s medical device inventionsAlmost every visit to the doctor starts with a series of quick tests—weight, oxygen levels, blood pressure. Most are pretty straightforward, but one can be a little uncomfortable: the tight squeezing of the blood pressure cuff.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn
Astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab has studied the composition of 54,000 white dwarf stars—but she almost gave up on the subject Twitter Facebook For a lot of people, the unknown is a scary prospect—but not for Boston University astrophysics student Ariyana Bonab (CAS’25).
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Jackie Ricciardi
Student archaeologist Jessica Buckley pieces together human history by looking at old shellfish remains Twitter Facebook Most people don’t think about what happens to bones, shells, and other leftovers when their meal is finished.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Andrew Thurston
What Is CTE? BU student Natalie Lett explains the progressive brain disease—chronic traumatic encephalopathy—that’s been found in hundreds of former contact sports athletes @bostonu What is CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), and why does it seem to affect so many athletes? Watch as Natalie Lett (@comatbu’27) breaks down the science behind this disease, how it’s diagnosed, and what BU researchers are doing to help identify it before death. Link in bio to read more on The Brink.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Jackie Ricciardi
BU undergraduate Sarah Alizadeh-Shabdiz is trying to find out, with the help of a remote control car Twitter Facebook When most people think of robots, what comes to mind is probably something with a hard shell, likely made of metal or plastic—and maybe shaped like a human.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Jessica Colarossi |Devin Hahn |Jackie Ricciardi
A team of BU undergraduates’ air quality monitors have won them the 2024 Janetos Climate Action Prize Twitter Facebook Imagine being able to contribute to scientific research just by riding a bike: your bicycle automatically collecting valuable air quality data from the different neighborhoods you pedal through, creating a mobile network of air quality monitors. That’s the vision a group of students at Boston University are working toward. For their senior design project, a team of College of...
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May 3, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn
Twitter Facebook Class of 2024, you began your Boston University journey during a time of profound uncertainty, when the world was in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you arrived on campus, classes were a mix of remote and in-person learning, strict masking and social distancing were mandatory, dining halls were largely take-away only, and clubs were meeting on Zoom.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Andrew Thurston |Devin Hahn
Why Is a BU Researcher So Fascinated with the Diets of Dung Beetles? Biologist Sofía Casasa studies tiny insects to learn whether their genes or diet are most responsible for their size, shape, and structure Scientists know it as Onthophagus—a type of horned scarab beetle found in just about every part of the world. But you probably know it for what it eats: poop.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
bu.edu | Devin Hahn |Alene Bouranova
Twitter Facebook When was the last time you took a picture of your trash? Uhhh…. For Boston University Sustainability interns Tess Shotland (CAS’26), Nina Palmer (Questrom’25, CAS’25), and Cece Lagomarsino (CAS’24), photographing garbage is just part of the job. Why? The three interns work at BU’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences, which is already one of the greenest buildings in New England.
