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200 +

companies developing and selling products based on BU discoveries

$ 579.5 M

total research awards in FY24

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You’ve Heard of Red States and Blue States. But What About Red and Blue Neighborhoods?

Research by BU political scientist and Andrew Carnegie Fellowship winner Jacob Brown shows that where you live might have a lot of influence on partisan divides and how you vote

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Featured Researchers

Meet the brilliant minds behind our groundbreaking research.

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    Darrell Kotton

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

    Wendy Qiu

    Biomarker Core Co-Leader, Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
  • Jacob Brown headshot

    Jacob Brown

    Assistant Professor, Political Science
  • Merav Opher

    Merav Opher

    Professor, Astronomy
  • Bruce J. Schulman

    Bruce J. Schulman

    William E. Huntington Professor of History
  • Quinn Slobodian

    Quinn Slobodian

    Professor, International History
  • Anders Sandvik

    Anders W. Sandvik

    Professor, Physics
BU student researcher Sierra Koerber-Marx works underwater at Nubble Light on Maine’s southern coast, while her sugar kelp subjects crowd the foreground

Protecting Maine’s Coastal Heritage—and Her Own

Student researcher and daughter of a lobsterman Sierra Koerber-Marx (CAS’26) dives to help save sugar kelp in a changing ocean

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