Editing Boston University (section)

===Research===
[[File:Boston University Talbot Building 01.JPG|thumb|The Talbot Building located on the medical campus houses the [[Boston University School of Public Health|School of Public Health]]]]
In 2024, the university reported in $579.5M million in total research awards, and in fiscal year 2023 it ranked 16th in the U.S. among private institutions for all research and development expenditures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Boston University Annual Report 2024 |url=https://ar.bu.edu/2024/files/2024/11/Financials_2024.pdf |access-date=January 14, 2025 |website=ar.bu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey 2022 {{!}} NSF – National Science Foundation |url=https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/higher-education-research-development/2022#data |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website=ncses.nsf.gov}}</ref> Funding sources included the [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF), the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), the [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]], the [[European Commission]], the [[Susan G. Komen Foundation]], and the federal [[Health Resources and Services Administration]]. The university's research enterprise encompasses dozens of fields, but its primary focus currently lies in seven areas: data science, engineering biology, global health, infectious diseases, neuroscience, photonics, and urban health.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Research Areas {{!}} Research |url=https://www.bu.edu/research/our-research/research-areas/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415013547/https://www.bu.edu/research/our-research/research-areas/ |archive-date=April 15, 2017 |access-date=April 14, 2017 |website=www.bu.edu |language=en}}</ref>

In 2017, BU received a $20 million grant over five years from the NSF in order to establish an Engineering Research Center (ERC).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Four new NSF Engineering Research Centers will advance US health, energy sustainability |url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242681 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153122/https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=242681 |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1647837 – Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Directed Multiscale Assembly of Cellular Metamaterials with Nanoscale Precision: CELL-MET |url=https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647837 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153121/https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647837 |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=nsf.gov |language=en}}</ref> The ERC's goal is to bioengineer functional heart tissue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BU Wins $20M for NSF Engineering Research Center {{!}} The Brink |url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/nsf-award-engineering-research-center/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153119/https://www.bu.edu/articles/2017/nsf-award-engineering-research-center/ |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=Boston University |language=en}}</ref> The director of the center is David Bishop, a professor of physics and computer and electrical engineering.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Bishop, Ph.D. {{!}} College of Engineering |url=https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/david-bishop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153130/https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/david-bishop/ |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=www.bu.edu}}</ref>

In 2003, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded Boston University a grant to build one of two National Biocontainment Laboratories. The [[National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories]] (NEIDL) was created to study emerging infectious diseases that pose a significant threat to public health.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 10, 2020 |title=Biocontainment Laboratory—Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory {{!}} NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |url=http://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/boston-u-national-biocontainment-lab |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109083815/https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/boston-u-national-biocontainment-lab |archive-date=January 9, 2021 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=www.niaid.nih.gov |language=en}}</ref> NEIDL has biosafety level 2, 3, and 4 (BSL-2, BSL-3, and BSL-4, respectively) labs that enable researchers to work safely with the pathogens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories |url=https://www.bu.edu/neidl/about-neidl/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030023410/https://www.bu.edu/neidl/about-neidl/ |archive-date=October 30, 2022 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=www.bu.edu}}</ref> BSL-4 labs are the highest level of biosafety labs and work with diseases with a high risk of aerosol transmission.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CDC LC Quick Learn: Recognize the four Biosafety Levels |url=https://www.cdc.gov/training/quicklearns/biosafety/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924201350/https://www.cdc.gov/training/QuickLearns/biosafety/ |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=www.cdc.gov}}</ref>

The strategic plan also encouraged research collaborations with industry and government partners. In 2016, as part of a broadbased effort to solve the critical problem of [[antibiotic resistance]], the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|U.S. Department of Health & Human Services]] (HHS) selected the [[Boston University School of Law|BU School of Law]] (LAW)—and [[Kevin Outterson]], a BU professor of law—to lead a $350 million trans-Atlantic public-private partnership called [[CARB-X]] to foster the preclinical development of new antibiotics and antimicrobial rapid diagnostics and vaccines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Mark |date=August 3, 2016 |title=International coalition putting $350M behind CARB-X to fight drug-resistant bacteria |url=http://medcitynews.com/2016/08/350m-carb-x-drug-resistant-bacteria/ |access-date=April 14, 2017 |website=MedCity News}}</ref> CARB-X was allotted an additional $370 million in funding in May 2022. HHS will continue to support CARB-X with up to $300 million over 10 years, and global charity Wellcome will fund up to $70 million over three years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 20, 2022 |title=U.S. Government and Wellcome Commit Up To An Additional US$370 Million to CARB-X |url=https://www.amr-insights.eu/u-s-government-and-wellcome-commit-up-to-an-additional-us370-million-to-carb-x/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525073700/https://www.amr-insights.eu/u-s-government-and-wellcome-commit-up-to-an-additional-us370-million-to-carb-x/ |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |access-date=June 8, 2022 |website=AMR Insights |language=en-US}}</ref> In May 2023, CARB-X secured renewed funding from the UK government (£24M over four years)<ref>{{Cite web |title=UK Government Bolsters Partnership with CARB-X |url=https://carb-x.org/carb-x-news/uk-government-bolsters-partnership-with-carb-x/ |access-date=August 10, 2023 |website=GOV.UK |language=en}}</ref> and the German government (€39M over four years, and €2M for accelerator),<ref>{{Cite web |title=German government renews commitment to CARB-X |url=https://carb-x.org/carb-x-news/german-government-renews-commitment-to-carb-x/}}</ref> and the Canadian government also announced its plan to support CARB-X with CAD $6.3 million over two years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Government of Canada to join CARB-X partnership |url=https://carb-x.org/carb-x-news/government-of-canada-to-join-carb-x-partnership/}}</ref>

In its effort to increase diversity and inclusion, Boston University appointed [[Ibram X. Kendi]] in July 2020 as a history professor and the director and founder<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder {{!}} Center for Antiracist Research |url=https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/ibram-x-kendi/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130041727/https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/ibram-x-kendi/ |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=www.bu.edu}}</ref> of its newly established Center for Antiracist Research.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 4, 2020 |title=Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Joins Boston University to Lead New Antiracist Research Center – Higher Education |url=https://diverseeducation.com/article/179958/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201226091800/https://diverseeducation.com/article/179958/ |archive-date=December 26, 2020 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Scholar Ibram X. Kendi Joins Boston University Faculty To Lead New Anti-Racism Center |author-first1=Jack|author-last1=Mitchell|url=https://www.wbur.org/edify/2020/06/04/ibram-kendi-boston-university-anti-racism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128063441/https://www.wbur.org/edify/2020/06/04/ibram-kendi-boston-university-anti-racism |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=WBUR |date=June 4, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> The university also appointed alumna Andrea Taylor as its first senior diversity officer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 13, 2020 |title=Boston University names first-ever senior diversity officer |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/08/13/boston-university-names-first-senior-diversity-off.html |access-date=November 30, 2020 |website=Boston Business Journal}}</ref> Later in August, [[Twitter]] founder and then CEO [[Jack Dorsey]] donated $10 million to the Center, noting that the gift came with "no string attached."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ward |first=Marguerite |title=Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates $10 million to Ibram X. Kendi's center on antiracism at Boston University |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-donates-ibram-kendi-center-on-antiracism-boston-university-2020-8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109231002/https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-donates-ibram-kendi-center-on-antiracism-boston-university-2020-8 |archive-date=January 9, 2023 |access-date=January 9, 2023 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US}}</ref> Ibram Kendi was named a 2021 MacArthur fellow and will receive a "genius grant" of $625,000 split over five years for his center's research.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 29, 2021 |title=Ibram Kendi, BU Center for Antiracist Research Founding Director, Wins 2021 MacArthur 'Genius' Grant |url=https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215180554/https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/ibram-x-kendi-macarthur-fellows-genius-grant-winner/ |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=Boston University |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 14, 2021 |title=MacArthur 'genius grant' winner Ibram X. Kendi shares how his time at Temple helped shape him |url=https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-12-14/macarthur-genius-grant-winner-ibram-x-kendi-shares-how-his-time-temple-helped-shape |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153120/https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-12-14/macarthur-genius-grant-winner-ibram-x-kendi-shares-how-his-time-temple-helped-shape |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=Temple Now {{!}} news.temple.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Asare |first=Janice Gassam |title=2021 MacArthur Fellow Ibram Kendi Discusses Racial Healing And The Power We All Have To Create Change |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2021/10/07/2021-macarthur-fellow-ibram-kendi-discusses-racial-healing-and-the-power-we-all-have-to-create-change/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215153119/https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2021/10/07/2021-macarthur-fellow-ibram-kendi-discusses-racial-healing-and-the-power-we-all-have-to-create-change/ |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |access-date=February 15, 2022 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref>