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BU Professor David Somers runs Boston for family, diabetes research

Brendan Nordstrom April 22, 2022
Found within the buzz and festivities of Patriots’ Day this year was David Somers, chair of Boston University’s Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, who ran the Boston Marathon for more than just a fast time. 
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Highway to Health: It’s time to break up with sugar

Bailey Salimes March 17, 2022
In letting go of sugar, you are reducing your chances of meeting obesity later on in life and potentially saving yourself from a myriad of physical and mental health troubles.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Children must re-enter the classroom to further their development

Editors March 26, 2021
Advancing the development of the next generation is too important to halt any longer.
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Massachusetts vaccine distribution contributes to long-term health care inequities

Sam Trottenberg March 11, 2021
The state’s Black and Latinx populations each suffered 10 percent more COVID-19 cases in the first half of 2020 and saw a death rate three times that of white residents.
Boston University faculty members hold mixed views on the University’s academic calendar changes. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty express mixed feelings on academic year calendar changes

Isabella Abraham October 29, 2020
BU is trying to minimize travel for the 2020–2021 academic year in the hopes of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
A sign on the door of Warren Towers showing ways that students can limit the spread of COVID-19. Professors at Boston University have criticized the University for not extending the flexibility of its Learn From Anywhere model to BU staff. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors share experiences, openly critique LfA system

Cameron Morsberger September 2, 2020
Through the Learn from Anywhere model, students are given a choice to attend class virtually or on campus, but most professors do not have this option.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researchers have found Thursday that insufficient sleep amounts reduce sensitivity to insulin, which in turn may increase the risk of developing diabetes. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FALON MORAN/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

College students advised to get more shut-eye to combat diabetes

Michaela Johnston November 10, 2015

A recent study brought sad news for sleepy students. Released Thursday by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the study showed...

A study published Monday by Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that the time of day a person eats matters more than what they eat in relation to developing diabetes. PHOTO BY STERLING ELY/FLICKR

Meal times linked more to diabetes risk than food choices, study finds

Julia Metjian April 15, 2015

Meal times contribute more to an increased risk of diabetes than do food choices, according to a study published Monday by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The study, published in the...

PHOTO BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

TAMOLA: About Weight Watchers

Katie Tamola October 27, 2014

You know those Pinterest quote boards or your sorority sisters or whatever who talk about loving wildly and doing everything to the extreme and living in the moment and all. You know, that stuff. That’s...

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