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Culture

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Recipe Series

Ginger Apple Cranberry Sauce

November 20, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with These Books, Films, TV Shows, Podcasts, and Albums

November 17, 2023

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Comedy

How Comedians in Turkey Are Pushing Boundaries

November 15, 2023

Book History

Video: Why the UK and US have Different Titles for the same Book

November 6, 2023

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TRUE CRIME

Why Are We So Obsessed with Serial Killers?

November 2, 2023

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Arts & Culture

What Makes Taylor Swift the Pop Icon She Is?

November 1, 2023

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Zombies

Meet the BU Professor Building an Online Zombie Movie Archive

October 27, 2023

Photo: The view from the 4-seat floatplane of Kodiak Island, where The Alutiiq/Sugpiaq people have lived for over 7,500 years. A lush green island surrounded by water can be seen from a plane.

Archaeology

Archaeology Student Trevor Lamb Found Some of Alaska’s Oldest Woven Textiles on Kodiak Island

October 26, 2023

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Gentrification

Can We Stop the Gentrification of Cities?

October 24, 2023

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Expert Take

Rebuilding Public Trust in Science

October 19, 2023

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art and science

Video: Screen Printing with Melanin

September 28, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Why Are We Obsessed with Barbie? And Why Is Barbie Still Here?

July 19, 2023

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Things-to-do

To Do Today: Summer Solstice Night at the Harvard Museums

June 20, 2023

Photo: Three young women hold up puppets on their right hand and smile into the camera. From left, she has short brown hair and wears a monochromatic tan outfit. In the middle, a white woman with long brown hair and a stripped shirt. On the right, a Black woman with shoulder length straight hair. She wears an all black outfit.

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Communicating Science and Research—through Puppets

May 16, 2023

Meridian Street in East Boston, busy with cars, bikes and pedestrians on a sunny day. Photo by Brandon Bartoszek

Things-to-do

Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: East Boston

April 27, 2023

Kendall Square Cambridge, MA

Things-to-do

Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Kendall Square

April 5, 2023

Fort Point

Things-to-do

Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Fort Point/Seaport

March 30, 2023

Professor Wesley Wildman teaches a Data and Ethics class at CDS on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

Data Sciences

Student-Designed Policy on Use of Generative AI Adopted by Data Sciences Faculty

March 24, 2023

Photo: To the far left, Andrew Reid Bell, a white man wearing a green cap, looks on as a small group of dark-skinned Black women and men look to tablets on a multi-colored, checkered long table. They are in a small wooden dwelling with an open doorway and cross-patterned open windows letting light in.

Conservation

How Do We Make Farming Better for the Planet? Ask Women

March 16, 2023

Photo: Kathya Correa Almanza (CAS’25), vice president of Alianza Latina, sits and poses on the floor of a brightly sunlit hallway. A young, Latina woman wearing a pink, orange, and white long-sleeved floral shirt and jeans, poses with one leg bent and arm resting on knee as she smiles for the camera.

Student Life

Terriers in Charge: Kathya Correa Almanza (CAS’25)

March 15, 2023

Terriers in Charge: Kathya Correa Almanza (CAS’25)