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Accounts focus on research, student life, and public outreach; “All of the posts have impacted someone who is in need.”

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Our Online World Relies on Encryption. What Happens If It Fails?

Quantum computers will make traditional data encryption techniques obsolete; BU researchers have turned to physics to come up with better defenses

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Remembering Leslie Epstein, Pillar of BU’s Creative Writing Program

Friends, colleagues, and former students of the author, who died May 18, recall his steadfast dedication to—and passion for—literary fiction

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May 22, 2025

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BU Historian’s New Book Traces the Rise of Today’s Far-Right Movement

The New York Times calls Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian a “riveting read” and “illuminating history”

June 5, 2025

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BU Data Platform Will Help Massachusetts Track, and Work to Close, Wage Gaps

CDS researchers selected to extend across the state an encrypted data program already in use to track the gender and racial wage gaps in Boston

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From Wedding Attire to Living Room Curtains: A BU Scholar Is Unraveling the History of Brocade Weaving in Morocco

Iconic throughout history, richly woven silk brocade fabrics have evolved in purpose and utility, but a BU Fulbright Scholar is finding how the traditions are still alive today

May 31, 2025

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Using AI to Identify Plundered Antiquities

BU archaeologists use machine learning algorithm to help identify stolen Cambodian statues

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Marnie (Pierce) Jones

Marnie (Pierce) Jones (COM’96) was reunited with her BU class ring in November 2024, nearly three decades after losing it. “It is as glorious as I remember! How incredibly special,” she writes. “I received it right before Thanksgiving, so we opened it as a family.” Back in October, the BU Alumni Help Desk received an email from a woman in North Attleboro, Mass., who wanted to return the ring, which her mother had found in downtown Boston many years before. The Help Desk staff contacted Marnie—the ring was engraved with her name, college, and class year—and set the wheels in motion. “There is more to this story than just finding the ring,” Marnie wrote in her thank-you note. Just hours before receiving the Help Desk’s email, her father had passed away. “He was the one who bought me my class ring back in 1996,” she wrote. “I remember being heartbroken (and terrified to tell him!) when I lost it, somewhere along a frigid, dark, and wet commute from Cambridge to Congress Street during my first year out of college.”

Accounts focus on research, student life, and public outreach; “All of the posts have impacted someone who is in need.”

Latest Headlines

Quantum computers will make traditional data encryption techniques obsolete; BU researchers have turned to physics to come up with better defenses

Friends, colleagues, and former students of the author, who died May 18, recall his steadfast dedication to—and passion for—literary fiction

The New York Times calls Hayek’s Bastards by Quinn Slobodian a “riveting read” and “illuminating history”

CDS researchers selected to extend across the state an encrypted data program already in use to track the gender and racial wage gaps in Boston

Current Issue

Winter-Spring 2025

Iconic throughout history, richly woven silk brocade fabrics have evolved in purpose and utility, but a BU Fulbright Scholar is finding how the traditions are still alive today

BU archaeologists use machine learning algorithm to help identify stolen Cambodian statues

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