Boston University today was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to accelerate research for undergraduate neuroscience students. The country’s largest private funder of science education awarded $70 million to 50 research institutions nationwide under its Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Program. Neuroscience at BU is booming. Introduced as an undergraduate major just a year and a half ago, it will be the second most popular science major in the College of Arts and Sciences by this fall…

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Boston University Receives $1.5M Grant For Undergrad Neuroscience-Lab Research

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