{"id":5,"date":"2025-05-28T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/sphere-lab\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:56:57","slug":"sphere-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.news-grid {max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto 25px; display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); gap: 18px;}\n.news-card {padding: 12px; border: 1px solid #eee; display: flex; flex-direction: column; box-sizing: border-box;}\n.news-card img {width: 100%; height: 220px; object-fit: contain; background: #fff; margin-bottom: 10px;}\n.news-card h3 {margin: 4px 0 8px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.3;}\n.news-card p {flex-grow: 1; margin: 0 0 8px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;}\n.news-card a {display: inline-block; align-self: flex-start; margin-top: auto; padding: 0 10px 12px 10px; background: #e0e0e0; color: #333; border-radius: 4px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 500;}\n.news-card a:hover {background: #d0d0d0;}\n@media (max-width: 700px) {.news-grid {grid-template-columns: 1fr;}}\n<\/style>\n<div style=\"max-width: 1000px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 16px;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin: 0 0 12px; font-size: 56px; color: #000;\">News<\/h2>\n<hr style=\"height: 4px; margin: 10px 0 24px; border: 0; background: #2e7d32;\" \/>\n<div class=\"news-grid\">\n<article class=\"news-card\">\n      <img src=\"\/sphere\/files\/2026\/10\/zach_pub_0926.png\" alt=\"Zach publication\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>New Publication<\/h3>\n<p>\n        Zachary Popp&#8217;s article, \u201cPractical considerations for characterization<br \/>\n        of the external exposome in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and related dementias<br \/>\n        cohorts,\u201d has been published in the <i>Alzheimer&#8217;s &amp; Dementia<\/i>.<br \/>\n        Congratulations to Zach and his team!\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.71841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n        Read more<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<article class=\"news-card\">\n      <img src=\"\/sphere\/files\/2026\/10\/awakegrant.jpg\" alt=\"AWAKE grant\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>New Grant<\/h3>\n<p>\n        Congratulations to Marcia Pescador Jimenez on receiving a new NIH R13<br \/>\n        conference grant! Alzheimer\u2019s Prevention in Women through Analysis of<br \/>\n        Key Exposome Domains (AWAKE) will examine how social, physical, and<br \/>\n        policy environments across the life course shape women\u2019s risk of<br \/>\n        Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias (AD\/ADRD).\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/reporter.nih.gov\/search\/UCo3o1hJfku6Roukj9aTsA\/project-details\/11466936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n        Read more<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<article class=\"news-card\">\n      <img src=\"\/sphere\/files\/2026\/09\/housebrain.webp\" alt=\"House and brain illustration\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>New Grant<\/h3>\n<p>\n        Congratulations to Jeroen van Baar on receiving a K99\/R00 award from<br \/>\n        the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)! His project, \u201cUsing<br \/>\n        experimental and quasi-experimental designs to assess effects of<br \/>\n        insurance and eviction ban coverage on mental health and<br \/>\n        neurodevelopment,\u201d brings together neuroscience, epidemiology, and<br \/>\n        causal inference to investigate how social safety-net coverage and<br \/>\n        uncertainty may shape mental health and neurodevelopment.\n      <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"news-card\">\n      <img src=\"\/sphere\/files\/2026\/08\/marciatara_pub_0826.png\" alt=\"Marcia publication\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>New Publication<\/h3>\n<p>\n        Marcia Pescador Jimenez&#8217;s article, \u201cConfusion in evaluating research<br \/>\n        quality comes from lack of clarity: The case for explicit research<br \/>\n        questions,\u201d has been published in the<br \/>\n        <i>American Journal of Epidemiology<\/i>. Congratulations to Marcia<br \/>\n        and her team!\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aje\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/aje\/kwag201\/8765263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n        Read more<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News New Publication Zachary Popp&#8217;s article, \u201cPractical considerations for characterization of the external exposome in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/sphere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}