Fortifying Our Community
Boston University is dedicated to fostering a campus environment that is vibrant, innovative, and supported. From standing up our own COVID-19 testing lab to developing the technology for a remote/hybrid teaching and learning system that allowed classrooms to reopen to witnessing the creative ways students bonded from afar and once again on campus. But none of this would have been possible without the cooperation, dedication, and most importantly, the resilience of our community.



Our Campus Living Room
The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground (HTC) has long been a vibrant hub for our campus community, bringing students from across the University together to exchange ideas and explore differences. The HTC had recently moved to a bigger, more centrally located space at historic 808 Commonwealth Avenue, formerly known as the Fuller Cadillac Building. When the pandemic struck, it had to close its doors.
A Million Tests. Seven Robots. One Determined Community.
After the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued stay-at-home orders in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing all nonessential University operations to go remote, we knew that to bring people back to campus we’d have to create our own system to prevent outbreaks in our close-knit, urban research University.



“We Are Forever In Their Debt”
Before we could administer and process our first COVID-19 test, we had to understand the magnitude of the problem, how to measure potential transmission on campus, what safety protocols were required, and how to collect samples and conduct tracing.
Fortifying Our Community


Wind Farm Moves BU Closer to Net Zero
In December 2020, we began buying clean energy from the South Dakota wind farm that the University helped get off the ground, fulfilling a key goal of our Climate Action Plan (CAP) and earning recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Turning A Challenging Year Into A Banner Year
Pillars of Support
Taking Alumni Engagement Up A Notch
Boston University’s new vice president for alumni engagement, Erika Jordan, arrived here in the wake of a historic fundraising campaign but also as BU and the country map their way back from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
