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Coronavirus

Portrait of Doctor Drew Weissman standing in a lobby wearing a navy blue suit.

Accolades

BU Alum Drew Weissman Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Breakthrough mRNA Technology That Led to COVID Vaccines

October 2, 2023

Photo of Weike Wang (GRS’15), a young Asian American woman with shoulder length brown hair and turtle glass. She wears a black blouse and spotted green and yellow skirt and sits with her hands folded as she slightly smiles.

Books

In Alum Weike Wang’s New Novel, Joan Is Okay, a Chinese American Doctor Navigates Job and Family

May 16, 2022

Black and white portrait of Drew Weissman (MED’87, GRS’87), smiling, in a black suit. A background with blue, purple, yellow and orange gradient coronavirus molecules are seen behind him.

Healthcare Technologies

How Scientists Drew Weissman (MED’87, GRS’87) and Katalin Karikó Developed the Revolutionary mRNA Technology inside COVID Vaccines

November 18, 2021

Photo of Roseann Bongiovanni (CAS’99, SPH’01), wearing a yellow sundress and leaning against a short wall outside of a building, holding her face mask in her hand, and smiling. Behind her, a person is seen carrying bags down the street.

Public Health

Alum Roseann Bongiovanni Is Helping One of the Hardest-Hit COVID Cities Get Vaccinated

August 30, 2021

3 children playing or drawing at a kids table while parents talk behind them in the kitchen.

Child Health & Development

The Toll on Children’s Health during COVID-19

July 28, 2021

Photo of a group of students sitting in an auditorium as they show their cleared confirmation status on their cellphones at the start of Professor Elizabeth Co’s Human Physiology (BI 211) class in Morse Auditorium on the first day of classes September 2. Stickers are placed in chairs throughout the auditorium to help with distancing.

Student Stories

College in the COVID-19 Era

November 20, 2020

Politics

BU Alum Leads a Very Different Democratic National Convention

August 17, 2020

A photo of the season four cast of Vanderpump Rules

Film & TV

Can Vanderpump Rules and Temptation Island Still Exist in a Coronavirus World?

July 17, 2020

Center for Regenerative Medicine researchers Aditya Mithal, Claire Burgess, and Andrew McCracken prepare samples collected from Boston Medical Center patients suspected to be infected with the novel coronavirus.

University News

How BU Responded to a Historic Public Health Crisis

July 7, 2020

Photo of a brewer from Trademark Brewing producing hand sanitizer during the pandemic. The employee wears a purple face covering and blue gloves and watches a pipe, waiting with his hand on a lever to close the pipe. Barrels are seen in the background.

Brewing For Good

Brewing Up Something Different

June 23, 2020

Image of Boston City Councilor and BU alum, Annissa Essaibi-George, who has started sew face masks for the Boston University Police Department at the Stitch House, a shop in Dorchester which she founded. Two BU PD officers stand at her left and right; the wall behind them is filled with skeins of yarn.

Community Service

Inside BU Alum’s Stitch House, a Business for the Times

April 16, 2020

Inside BU Alum’s Stitch House, a Business for the Times