Alumni+ Big Shot Billie Weiss is living out a major-league dream as manager of photography for the World Champion Boston Red Sox Video
On Campus+ Bricks of Life Biologist and Lego collector Cynthia Bradham finds inspiration in the tiny building blocks of life Video
Alumni10 Rahul Desikan's Story of Love, Science, and Facing Down Death This pioneering neuroscientist was attacking ALS. Then ALS attacked him. Video
Books+ Exploring Endurance Best-selling author David Grann (GRS’94) on one man’s obsessive quest to cross Antarctica
June 18, 2019Know What’s Good for Your Health? Artificial IntelligenceData and algorithms can spot medical concerns early and point to solutions
June 12, 2019Crowdsourcing a Second Bill of Rights? ENG Professor Wants to Give It a ShotGreg Blonder says our leaders often obstruct the public’s will
June 10, 2019A Dead Humpback, a Team of Scientists, a Race for AnswersDid noise pollution in the ocean contribute to her death in the waters off Cape Cod? Her whale ears may hold important clues
June 10, 2019Shari Davis (Sargent’10,’12) among 20 Obama Fellows Named Worldwide“The Obamas represent…the reality that ceilings can and should be broken”
June 6, 2019Natick’s World War II Museum Commemorates 75th Anniversary of D-DayFounder Ken Rendell, who studied business at BU, has created special exhibition
June 4, 2019Stan Sclaroff Named Dean of Arts & SciencesAfter nationwide search, interim dean chosen for strong and consistent leadership
October 22, 2014 The Conversation Comes to the United States, via BU Global news website: journalists + academics = informed news analysis
October 22, 2014 Former New York Times Colleagues on Media’s Future David Carr talks with Jill Abramson
October 16, 2014 “A Remarkable Spirit of Courage” Journalist William Worthy, Jr., defied the US government in pursuit of his stories
September 9, 2014 Zuckoff Chronicles Benghazi Attack in 13 Hours COM prof, coauthors give details “from the ground” of fatal assault
May 29, 2014 NY Times Photographer Tyler Hicks Receives Pulitzer Prize COM alum’s skill, bravery during Kenyan mall attack cited
May 13, 2014 $2.5M from Sumner Redstone Creates Narrative Professorship Gift to COM will explore the power of storytelling
May 7, 2014 Changes Ahead for the Daily Free Press BU’s student newspaper will print once a week, redesign website
April 4, 2014 Keeping Quiet Why do nineteen of twenty rapes on U.S. campuses go unreported? An investigative reporter spent nine months finding the answers.
March 31, 2014 Watching the Detectives How 19th-century medical investigators found new ways to learn whodunit