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President Brown: “We Grieve for Our Country”
Letter to BU community comes in reaction to the violent racial protests in Boston and nationwide
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POV: “I Am Angry. But I Will Not Waste My Anger”
After a weekend of protests and violence, BU Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore speaks out, reluctantly hopeful, on trauma and tragedy
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BU Students Will Have Choice of In-Person or Remote Classes This Fall
Other changes after the COVID-19 interruption: a return to normal grading and a strict safety-focused teaching format
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Meet the Alum Behind Boston’s Popular Cookie Monstah Food Trucks
Melissa Gale (SHA’95) dishes on her path to success
2October 15, 2019
BU’s Inner Strength Gospel Choir: Lifting Voices from a Distance
Current and former members recorded solo video performances of their “Unity Medley” from home
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SPH Seminar: Public Health, Science Experts Offer Global Perspectives on COVID-19
Researchers discuss successes, failures of their country’s response to pandemic
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How Bigotry Has Shaped Civil Rights, Marriage Equality, and Now the Coronavirus Pandemic
BU civil rights researcher Linda McClain discusses her most recent book and how social interaction can lessen bigoted views—even while physically distancing
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Zooming into Orientation
Class of 2024 summer introduction to BU will be held online
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POV: COVID-19 Makes the Case for Affirmative Action
It remains as critical as ever if we want colleges to look at students as unique individuals
3June 1, 2020
Today's Close-up
View from the (BU) Bridge
The BU Bridge, arguably one of the University’s most familiar landmarks, has another, rather unusual, feature: a rail bridge underneath that’s a “graffiti artist’s playground,” according to a 2009 BU Today story, and although the decorations “get painted over regularly, they always return, and the train trestle has become a part of the bridge’s character, a tattooed appendage.”
Photo by Cydney Scott
Politics of Covid-19
Jon Santiago, the Doctor in the House
State representative and BMC ER doctor straddling two vital worlds, politics and medicine, during the global pandemic
Boston Medical Center
Five Stories from the Front Lines
For doctors at Boston Medical Center, who treat the city's most vulnerable patients, every day is a sprint and a marathon as they race to save lives and work around the clock to contain the coronavirus pandemic
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