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Search Committee

Have an Opinion about Finding BU’s Next President? Search Committee Wants to Hear from You

September 29, 2022

BU men’s ice hockey players and new head coach Jay Pandolfo (CAS’96), who says his players are driven going into the 2022-23 season opener: “We had a lot of guys come back that maybe could have moved on. I don't think they want to leave anything on the table this year.” Photos by Jenna VanSickle

Varsity Sports

BU Men’s Ice Hockey Opens Season under New Leadership

September 29, 2022

Photo: Various woven baskets filled with cucumbers, colorful bell peppers, and squash sit on a table in front of the George Sherman Union on BU's campus.

Student Life

Stop by Today’s Sustainability Festival on Marsh Plaza for Food, Giveaways—and Learning to Be Greener

September 28, 2022

Photo: People hold signs and chant slogans during a protest over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini outside the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 26, 2022. A group of women, most not wearing hijabs, hold signs supporting Amini and protesting her death.

Student Voices

Anger, Pride, Fear: BU’s Iranian Students React to Mahsa Amini’s Death

September 28, 2022

a group of friends sharing a bowl of guacamole outside. Only their hands and the guac are visible.

Weekender

The Weekender: September 29 to October 2

September 28, 2022

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Sexual Health

5 Tips for Safe and Pleasurable Sex

September 27, 2022

Mental health matters: BU has a wealth of resources to help you on your college journey, in whatever form help means to you. Photo by iStock/KatarzynaBialasiewicz. Photo depicts two individuals sitting across from each other with their legs crossed, having a conversation.

Health & Medicine

Mental Health 101: Your Resources at BU

September 27, 2022

Composite image of book covers included in the Hispanic Heritage Month listicle, including "Her Body and Other Parties", "Cemetery Boys", "Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity", "The Undocumented Americans", "Afterlife", "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau", "Daughter of Doctor Moreau", "Trust", "The Hurting Kind", "My Broken Language: A Memoir", and "Cuba: An American History".

National Hispanic Heritage Month

24 Books to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 26, 2022

Collage of BU’s new Career Development Professors from left to right, top to bottom: Heidi Meyer, Jean-Pierre Roussarie, Ngozi Okidegbe, Erica Pratt, Christine Slaughter, Heidi Meyer, Tesary Lin, Daniel Dempsey, and Rui Hua. Photos by Cydney Scott and Jackie Ricciardi

New Appointment

University Names Eight Junior Faculty to Career Development Professorships for Promising Scholars

September 26, 2022

A newspaper burns. On the page the words Climate Change can be seen burning. The image has a greenish tint to it. There is a large red circular overlay on the left with a question mark inside.

Listen Now

How Do I Talk to a Climate Change Denier?

September 26, 2022

Photo: Fall stock photo of BU campus. Trees with orange and yellow leaves line the sidewalks of Comm Ave as pedestrians walk by the campus.

FACULTY PROMOTIONS

Meet the 18 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Associate Professor

September 23, 2022

Photo of Kara Cattani. A white woman with short blonde hair leans against a white pillar and smiles for the camera. She wears a pink sweater and black pants.

Mental Health

BU’s Behavioral Medicine Has a New Director

September 23, 2022

The many faces of Judith Kalaora (clockwise from top left): as Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist in the American military; as 19th-century philanthropist Madam Sarah Derby; as early suffragist Lucy Stone; as Rachel Walker Revere, wife of Paul Revere; as Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth US president; as Hollywood actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr; as teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe; and as Princess Diana. Photo of Sampon by Vincent Morreale; of Derby, Madison, and McAuliffe by Al Conant; of Stone by Chris Cavalier; of Revere by Claudio Gustafson; of Hedy Lamarr by Chris Beasley; of Princess Diana by Greg Anthony

Theater

Judith Kalaora Brings History To Life

September 23, 2022

Photo collage: (left) Starbucks workers protest and hold signs about unionizing outside the Starbucks on Comm Ave. (right) Marty Walsh listens on as President Biden speaks at a podium.

Business Problems

Comm Ave Starbucks Strike Ends: Does That Mean Strikes Work?

September 22, 2022

Black and white photo: Eliza Davis of Cuba, Ala., and her eight children ranging in age from 5 to 17, weary and tired on their arrival in Hyannis, Mass. from the south, June 1, 1962. They stand in front of an old Greyhound bus as a white woman to their left looks on.

Racism

Six Decades after Reverse Freedom Rides, Ugly History Repeats

September 22, 2022

Photo of pedestrian traffic. Students come and go, some masked and some unmasked, on Comm Ave.

Campus Life

Video: To Mask or Not to Mask

September 21, 2022

The Center for Computing & Data Sciences, dubbed the “Jenga building” by students, will house a new faculty that has received a $3 million gift from MassMutual. Photo by Janice Checcio

University News

MassMutual Gives $3 Million to Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences

September 21, 2022

A group of for students pose for a photo in front of a police lineup board

Things-to-do

The Weekender: September 22 to 25

September 21, 2022

9/8/22 -- Boston, MALoretta Lees, new leader of Initiatives on Cities (IOC). Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

New Appointment

For New Initiative on Cities Leader, Urban Geography Is People

September 21, 2022

Blue Hills Reservation

Things-to-do

Great Places for Hiking in and around Boston

September 21, 2022

Great Places for Hiking in and around Boston