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Sounds and Scenes

December 18, 2023

Photo: Overhead shot of 2 small black dumbbells and a black and red jump rope. Both are laid out on a wooden floor.

Exercise and Fitness

December 18, 2023

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Virtual Calming Rooms

December 18, 2023

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Meditation & Mindfulness

December 18, 2023

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Mind Games & Puzzles

December 18, 2023

Photo: Zachary Fuller (center) shares his final project with class members and the broader Gastronomy Program at BU. A white man wearing glasses, a pink shirt, and blue cardigan listens as someone seated at a long table asks him a question. Five other people also sit at the table as various clear cups filled with various beverages are lined up in front of them.

Academics

New Gastronomy Course Explores the Political, Historical Ingredients in Latinx Food in the US

December 18, 2023

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Student Life

New BU MetroBridge Class Studies the Impact of Gentrification

December 18, 2023

Photo: BU basketball athlete Matai Baptiste (CAS’27), at left, reads a book about engineering to kindergartners. They sit at a small table, the two kids to his right are engaged and radiate joy.

BU’s Well-Loved Holiday Tradition—for Children and Athletes

December 18, 2023

BU Today 12-18-2023

December 18, 2023

Photo: Questrom Sustainability Competition winners, Mikhail Gurevich (ENG’07, Questrom’12) (from left), who donated the $50,000 prize; winners Illiana Arroyo (CAS’25), Suraj Nellore (Questrom’26, COM’26), Jason Wexler (Questrom’25, COM’25), and Devin Hirsch (Questrom’25), stand holding a big cheque for their idea, ReBean.

Strategy & Innovation

BU Students Win $50,000 for Helping L.L.Bean Become More Eco-Friendly

December 15, 2023

University News

Tracy Schroeder, Transformational Leader of BU IS&T, Departing for West Coast Position

December 15, 2023

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Poetry

A Poem for the Year Our 2023 Souvenir

December 15, 2023

Photo: President Ken Freeman, an older, balding white man wearing glasses, a red holiday sweater, and jeans sits next to a lit fireplace with Rhett, a Boston Terrier school mascot wearing a red and white Bu Hockey jersey. They both sit and splay their arms out towards the lit fireplace to their left.

Watch Now

Rhett the Terrier Stars in Our Fun Holiday Video: The Gift

December 15, 2023

Movie Poster for "Wonka" a new film starring Timothee Chalamet as Willy Wonka. Here he is depicted in a colorful suit and tophat in front of other characters from the movie, like Oompa Loompas. Text reads "Wonka", "Timothee Chalamet", "Gobble it up, only in theaters December 13th", and "Every good thing in this world started with a dream"

Film

Envelope, Please—Who’s Going to See Wonka on the Big Screen Tonight?

December 15, 2023

BU Today 12-15-2023

December 15, 2023

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Arts & Culture

Tangled Up in Bob Dylan for 15 Years at BU

December 14, 2023

Photo: A group of college students in a sound stage, producing a TV medical drama. There is a student laying in a hospital bed and someone sitting at the beside singing a musical number, while cameras roll.

Bay State‘s “Catatonic, the Musical” Airs December 15

December 14, 2023

Photo: Two young women wearing black tops sit at a black table and paint flat, round ornaments in front of them with paint markers. The women on the left smiles as her ornament takes the appearance of a snowman with a carrot nose.

Marsh Chapel Global Stress Relief Day

December 14, 2023

BU Today 12-14-2023

December 14, 2023

Photo: A mirror with a flash light refracting the light into scattered rainbows across the plain background. Hanging above the mirror is a dangling sun catcher, the cause of the disperse of light.

Weekender

The Weekender: December 14 to 17

December 13, 2023

The Weekender: December 14 to 17