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Earth

Vermont Will Charge Big Oil for Past Climate Change. Should Massachusetts Follow?

July 12, 2024

Photo: Max Karambelas (ENG’24, CDS’24) (from left), George Trammell (CDS’24), Luis Mavarez (CAS’24), Andrea Rojas Doupovec (CFA’25, CAS’25), and Jimin Park (CAS’24) (not pictured) are the inventors of CloudWeaver. They all hold up their certificate showing they won.

Science & Technology

Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day

May 8, 2024

Photo: Three young men stand at the front of a classroom presenting their pitches. On the left, a Black man with a flat top fade wears a blue button up and navy slacks. In the middle, a Black man with his hair pulled into a puff wears a black button up with black slacks. And on the right, a young Asian man with long hair wears a gray polo and slacks.

Science & Technology

Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event

May 7, 2024

Accolades

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Welcomes Five BU Members

April 26, 2024

Photo: (Left to right) Tess Shotland, a woman with auburn hair and a black tshirt Cece Lagomarsino, a woman with short hair and a jean overall, and Nina Palmeon, a woman with long curly hair and a black tshirt posing with the waste disposal system at CDS.

sustainability

Waste Watchers

April 19, 2024

Photo: Becky Geisberg (CAS’26), center from left, Ella Hain (CAS’26), and Amelia Liston (CAS’26) chat for bit at SPARK on the second floor of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences. They sit on the computer in blue chairs and on their laptop.

BU SPARK

Learn More about BU Spark! BU’s Innovation and Experiential Learning Lab

April 12, 2024

Illustration of the path of the 2024 total solar eclipse provided by NASA. Shows the United States in a mercator map projection with a thin black band running from Texas up to Northern Maine, where the eclipse can best be viewed

2024 Total Eclipse

Tips to Watch and Photograph the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Safely

March 29, 2024

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Engineering

Bridge Collapse Creates Conversation in BU Structural Mechanics Class

March 27, 2024

Photo: A helicopter flies over a container ship as it rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the container ship ran into the bridge, causing the collapse.

Science & Technology

POV: Was the Francis Scott Key Bridge Disaster Avoidable?

March 26, 2024

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Academics

Many BU Students Study with ChatGPT. A Few Admit Cheating with It

March 18, 2024

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Faculty

Reasons to be Optimistic About 2024 (Seriously)

January 23, 2024

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Watch Now

Video: How Will Generative AI Impact My Field of Study?

November 15, 2023

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Communications

How to Talk to Kids about the Israel-Hamas War

October 24, 2023

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Linguistics

How and Why Language is Weaponized

October 23, 2023

Photo: Interior of the Perkins Telescope Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. An enormous telescope is shown inside a large, steel framed-dome.

Science & Technology

BU’s Perkins Telescope Observatory Reopens with a Brand-New Dome

September 28, 2023

Photo: Four individuals take a group shot. From the left, a man with a dark green bomber jacket and glasses. Next to him, standing, a woman with shoulder length brown hair and glasses has her arms clasped. Behind her, a man with a blue button up, glasses, and short dark hair stands. And on the right, a man with short dark hair, glasses, a button up and gray slacks sits on a table. A huge window stands behind them.

Center for Computing & Data Sciences

BU Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Grows by Four

September 15, 2023

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QUESTROM

BU Dual Master’s Program Aims to Produce Graduates Versed in Environmental Science—and the Economics of Climate Change

September 11, 2023

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University News

BU Forms AI Task Force

September 8, 2023

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Watch Now

Video: There’s Something Squirrelly about This Class

August 24, 2023

Photo: The hall of historic Waiola Church in Lahaina and nearby Lahaina Hongwanji Mission are engulfed in flames along Wainee Street. A large pyramid-shaped building and surrounding palm trees and land are shown engulfed in flames. Large flames are seen in the background as the sky looms red and black.

Maui Wildfires

Maui Native Helps Others amid Devastating Wildfires

August 11, 2023

Maui Native Helps Others amid Devastating Wildfires