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Asian American Experience

BU Students Launch New Magazine Celebrating the Various Nuances of the Asian American Experience

January 21, 2022

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Admissions

BU Is Making Standardized Tests Optional for Undergrad Applicants for Third Consecutive Year

January 20, 2022

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Students, BU Today Needs You

January 20, 2022

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Varsity Sports

As Women’s Hockey Prepares for the Beanpot, Terrier Senior Captain Reflects on the Season

January 20, 2022

Photo of Alan Leventhal standing at a Boston University podium next to an easel with a poster board that says "Alan & Sherry Leventhal Center." He extends his arm and addresses a crowd during the dedication of the new admissions building, named The Alan and Sherry Leventhal Center on Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Flags are seen behind him.

University News

Biden Picks Former BU Trustee Alan Leventhal as Ambassador to Denmark

January 20, 2022

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Politics

US Mayors Say Homelessness Crisis Falls to Them, but They Lack Support and Funding

January 20, 2022

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Essay Collection

War? More COVID? Irreversible Climate Change? What 2022 Could Bring

January 20, 2022

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Weekender

The Weekender: January 20 to 23

January 19, 2022

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Resolutions

Why Is It So Hard to Keep New Year’s Resolutions?

January 19, 2022

Photo of Joe Biden being sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible, during his Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 2021, as their children Ashley and Hunter watch.

Politics

One Year after Joe Biden’s Inauguration, BU Experts Give Him a Mixed Review

January 19, 2022

Photo of BU law professor, Katharine Silbaugh on January 4, 2022. She clasps her hands, smiles, and leans against the trunk of a tree. She has brown hair and wears a blue, speckled jacket over a black blouse.

Law & Health

Can Brookline’s New Anti-Smoking Law Create a Tobacco-Free Generation?

January 18, 2022

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Student Life

College of General Studies Welcomes a New Class

January 14, 2022

LISTEN NOW

Do COVID Vaccines Affect the Menstrual Cycle?

January 14, 2022

Photo of Uwe Beffert’s cell biology class September 2, 2021 in Morse Auditorium. Mask are required indoors, but distancing is not. Students sit in the rows with their notebooks open and look towards Beffert who wears a black jacket and jeans.

Campus Life

Everything to Know about COVID and BU Campus Life

January 14, 2022

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Martin Luther King

Michelle Wu to Headline Virtual MLK Day Celebration Monday

January 13, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: The Great Resignation. It’s Not as Great as Screaming Headlines Suggest

January 13, 2022

Black and white photo from March 1965, in which Martin Luther King, towards the right, in a suit, and his wife Coretta Scott King, in a hat and light pant suit, lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. Among those pictured are, front row, politician and civil rights activist John Lewis (1940 – 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 - 1990), Ruth Harris Bunche (1906 - 1988), Nobel Prize-winning political scientist and diplomat Ralph Bunche (1904 - 1971), activist Hosea Williams (1926 – 2000 right carrying child).

Things-to-do

The Weekender: January 13 to 17

January 12, 2022

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Accolades

BU’s Entrepreneur Education and Entrepreneurial Alumni Earn High Rankings

January 12, 2022

Caspian Chaharom (CAS’23) (left), Kelsea Mann (CFA’23), Chloe Adamowicz (CAS’22), and Harunobu Ishii (MET’22) pose for a photo after their autopcb app, which makes circuit design easily accessible, was awarded the Judges’ Choice Award for Innovation Fellows at the BU Spark! Fall 2021 Demo Day, December 10, 2021.

Campus Life

App That Automates Circuit Design Wins Big at BU Spark! Demo Day

January 11, 2022

Members of the Boston University Class of 2025 walk past Marsh Chapel on Commonwealth Ave towards their Matriculation Ceremony at Agganis Arena.

Year in Review

What a Year! Photo Essay Captures an Extraordinary 2021

January 7, 2022

What a Year! Photo Essay Captures an Extraordinary 2021