Boston University News

Robert A. Brown Inaugurated as BU's 10th President

In an Agganis Arena packed with academic gowns of blue, scarlet, kelly green, purple, and black, Robert A. Brown was inaugurated April 27 as the 10th president of Boston University. Read More

WBUR Interview with Robert A. Brown

The day of his inauguration, President Brown sat down with WBUR's Bob Oakes. Listen to the interview. Listen

An Alliance for All Time

In the first years of their long marriage, the biggest challenge that Robert and Beverly Brown weathered may have been the weather itself. Read More

Get Out the Map

In the past 25 years, more than 16,000 students have studied abroad through Boston University's Division of International Programs. "We expose students to things they would probably never encounter otherwise," says Associate Director Chris Russell. Read More

BU Researchers: Fat's in the Genes

Researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine have discovered a genetic variant that may predispose 10 percent of people of European or African descent to obesity. Results of their study, published this month in Science magazine, could help scientists develop better drugs to treat the disease. Read More

New Views

Graduates of the College of Fine Arts M.F.A. painting program recently exhibited their works on campus. Watch Slide Show

$1M Gift to Keep Sargent Spirit Alive: Muriel Appleton (SAR'48, SED'51)

At Sargent College in the 1940s, Muriel "Midge" Appleton and her classmates lived in the same dorm. "We all became best friends," she says. Appleton recently made the largest planned gift in Sargent's history to benefit the Dean's Fund. Read More

Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Lorraine Shemesh (CFA'71)

An acrobatic man and woman wheel and twist in a swimming pool. As the pair glide gracefully, his bathing trunks spark a reflected riot of dancing colors on the surface above, and the light hitting the rippling water throws a bright, fluid net of criss-crossing lines on her legs. Lorraine Shemesh has "always been interested in movement in space." Read More

Save more with the Boston University Visa® Card

For a limited time, the Boston University Select Rewards Visa® Platinum card offers 0% APR on purchases for one year (conditions apply). And for every purchase, you help support programs at BU as well. Read More