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Aid

Photo: A laptop with a student typing on the webpage for Boston University's SIS Renewal Program

Student Life

BU Says It’s Working Hard to Fix Student Information System Woes

September 12, 2024

Collage: (from left) Photos of Linzi Scholarship recipients and Zilu “Pete” Tang. Liyu Chen poses against a wooden wall. A young Asian woman wearing a white, red, and black sweater, and long white skirt, smiles as she poses next to a light wooden wall. Zilu “Pete” Tang, a young Asian man wearing glasses and a long sleeved blue-gray shirt, smiles and poses next to a cement wall. Behind him, a white board filled with notes on equations can be seen.

Scholarship

Ten Years after BU’s Lu Lingzi Died in the Boston Marathon Bombings, the Scholarship in Her Name Keeps Student Dreams Alive

April 12, 2023

Photo of BU President Bob Brown giving a speech on stage. Two people are seated beside him on stage as he stands and address the crowd at a podium.

SCHOLARSHIPS

BU Supports 2022 Boston Public Schools Graduates

September 15, 2022

Photo of a group of masked Innovate@BU students organizing the Wheelock Food Party March 7. There are large utility racks filed with cans. some students stand while others sort cans on the ground.

Innovation

Innovate@BU Is Taking On College Hunger This Semester

March 11, 2022

Photo of the GSU and Marsh Plaza on an overcast fall day. Students walk to class and the American flag blows in the wind.

AID

BU Distributing Federal American Rescue Plan Money to Students

December 6, 2021

A photo of BU Beach behind CAS during spring. Several students are visible lounging on the grass.

University News

University Will Distribute $11.5 Million in Pandemic Aid to Students in Need

March 12, 2021

Photo of three students sitting at single person tables as they study in front of their laptops with face masks on. The bare trees of the BU Beach are seen through the windows behind them.

Admissions

College Access Group QuestBridge and BU Partner to Give Need-Based Scholarships

January 27, 2021

Photo of Michelle Njoroge (CAS,SAR'21), Director of the Department of Social Advocacy for the Student Government during a tabling event in which the group got the word out about Terrier Meal Sharing. Mjoroge sets-up the sign-up system on a laptop at a booth, a white board on the table reads “Has food insecurity impacted you or your friends at BU? Yes or No” with columns for responses.

Campus Life

Economic Impact of Pandemic Has Boosted Demand for BU’s Program for Food-Insecure Students

November 25, 2020

A photo of Marsh Plaza during summertime

Student Life

BU Distributes Last of Federal CARES Aid to Students Affected by Campus Closure

June 9, 2020

Image of President Donald Trump as he signs the coronavirus stimulus relief package, at the White House, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington DC. In the background, from the left, stands Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., House Minority Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Vice President Mike Pence, look on. All the men are wearing suits, some are smiling.

Student Aid

Some BU Students Will Qualify for Federal Aid Due to Pandemic

May 1, 2020

A photo of Jasper Tangchitsumran (Questrom’22).

Admissions

BU Makes Top-10 List of Universities Enrolling More Pell Grant Students

February 19, 2020

Montiah Norton (CAS’21) signs up on her phone to donate a meal to Terrier Meal Share

Aid

BU Launches New Program to Help Students Facing Hunger

November 18, 2019

Thomas M. Menino Scholars and Community Service Award grantees

Accolades

BU Awards Scholarships to Boston Public High School Grads

June 25, 2018

Captiol Building

Science & Technology

Congress Resists Research Cuts

June 6, 2017

Rosy Chen (ENG’17) using a laptop

University News

BU Expands Boston Community Service Award Program

January 24, 2017

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Ethnic

Help for First in Their Family to Go to College

April 30, 2014

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Politics

POV: LBJ’s War on Poverty 50 Years Later

April 29, 2014

Elena Barbera, Boston Bomb Victim Bunker Hill Climb fund, Boston Marathon bombing amputee, Bunker Hill Monument stair climbing marathon

Aid

Alum’s Bunker Hill “Marathon” Benefits Bomb Amputees

June 24, 2013

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Politics

A Radical for All

December 17, 2012

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Global

Project Mailbox

March 8, 2012

Project Mailbox