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Photo: A sea of confetti over a large crowd of graduates in red gowns at the 2024 Boston University Commencement

Commencement 2024

BU Celebrates 7,600 Graduates at Buoyant 151st Commencement

May 19, 2024

Thousands of students gather on Nickerson Field for SPLASH, Boston University's involvement fair.

Student Life

Everything You Need to Know about SPLASH (and Why You Should Attend)

August 22, 2023

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

Spectators watch fireworks explode in the sky along the Boston Harbor waterfront

Things-to-do

What To Do Labor Day Weekend in Boston

September 2, 2021

Photo of the women's soccer team giving each other high fives before the start of their game versus UMass lowell.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: August 26 to 29

August 26, 2021

A photo of three tacos with a lime wedge next to them

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: February 25 to 28

February 25, 2021

"Weeks of Welcome" in white rounded text on a painted rainbow background.

Student Life

Weeks of Welcome Moves (Mostly) Online This Year

August 24, 2020

BU Running Club on a weekend run along the Minuteman Bikeway in Cambridge.

Health & Medicine

BU Running Club Blazes Its Own Trail

April 11, 2018

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University News

BU’s Amazing Race Welcomes Tacky Tourists

November 4, 2014

Boston University BU, annual Splash event, Cummington Mall, Saturday Night Live SNL comedian Jay Pharoah, BU Central, welcome back shabbat dinner, club sports groups organizations, student activities office SAO, Boston Calling Music Festival, Cambridge Carnival International, MitoAction Energy Walk and 5K, Not Your Grandmas Bingo, greek life, service organizations, student government

In the City

What to Do This Weekend

September 6, 2013

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Science & Technology

Strike “Bored” from Your Vocabulary

April 9, 2013

Boston University Student Groups and Activities Expo

SAO

So Many Clubs, So Little Time

September 13, 2011

BU Splash 2011

Students

Splash into the New School Year

September 2, 2011

Students

Going Out with a Bang: Senior Week

May 12, 2011

Students

Women Rock! (Men Can Too)

May 4, 2011

Students

Thumbs Up

April 20, 2011

Dean Of Students

Greek Life Expands

April 11, 2011

SAO

Six Strategies for Buying Red Sox Tickets

April 8, 2011

Boston

Smoking Allowed

February 18, 2011

Students

Circular Thought

February 17, 2011