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Sam Weinberger (CFA’21) paints the BU rock with holiday flair as the student a cappella group the Allegrettos watches and sings on. A group of students wearing holiday hats and scarves sing as a young man bends down to spray paint a giant rock with a snowman holiday scene.

Watch Now

A Special Holiday Video Message from All of Us at BU Today

December 16, 2022

Photo: A young dark-skinned Black man models blue scrubs and a white lab coat in front of a large rose bush. The name "VERDE" is shown to the left of him in bold, white letters.

Learning Public Relations

COM’s PRLab Takes On Medical Apparel Brand VERDE as a Client

December 16, 2022

Team Revere from SHA’s Advanced Hospitality Strategic Marketing course, with city of Revere representatives: Charlie Giuffrida, Revere director of tourism (from left), Justin Park (SHA’23), Anthony Forziatti (SHA’23), Arielle Hammer (SHA’23), Ethan Phillips (SHA’23), Micaela Yee (SHA’23), and Jacqueline McLaughlin, Revere communications associate. Photo by Cydney Scott

Classes

This School of Hospitality Administration Class Doubles as a Marketing Agency for Cities, Hotels, More

December 16, 2022

Students

25 Tuesdays, 25 Terriers, 25 Inspiring Pieces of Advice

December 16, 2022

BU Today 12-16-2022

December 16, 2022

Photo: Sargent College Dean Chris Moore (center) stands in a room filled with red and white balloons to celebrate the opening of the new clinical simulation rooms. He stands in front of a dark blue wall with silver letters that read "Sargent College Center for Clinical Simulation" as well as a tv screen showing a white slide that reads the same. A small group of people stand on either side of him as they look on as he smiles and speaks.

Ribbon Cutting for Sargent’s Center for Simulated Clinical Experience

December 15, 2022

Photo: exterior of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. An old building with elaborate Greek style arches is shown.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: December 16 to 18

December 15, 2022

Nurses wait for patients outside Boston Medical Center during the early days of the pandemic, March 20, 2020. The staff inside the triage tent assessed patients’ symptoms and determined whether they could receive care through BMC’s influenza-like illness clinic (ILI) for more moderate symptoms, or if they needed to go to the Emergency Department for more serious conditions. The COVID-positive patient census at BMC skyrocketed from 22 patients on March 24, 2020, to 121 patients in just eight days, and reached 219 by April 9.

Coronavirus

Addressing the Ethical Issues at the Heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic

December 15, 2022

BU Today 12-15-2022

December 15, 2022

Photo: Workers install the massive bronze statue, "The Embrace" on December 6, 2022. A work works from a lowered crane on the large left hand that seems to be holding up a large bronze stone. The entire sculpture looks like two bronze hands grasping and holding up a large rock or bundle.

MLK Memorial on Boston Common

December 14, 2022

Photo: Emily Burbo (COM’24) presents her project on tree canopies at the Cross College Challenge exhibition in Questrom on Tuesday, Dec. 13. A young white woman with long blonde hair and wearing a white blouse a white blouse and black blazer, smiles as she stands in front of a large screen showing an example of a pop up forest.

environmental health

A Tree Grows in Boston

December 14, 2022

A vector image filled with yellow balloons, fireworks, and party hats, depicting a festive new year scene. The background is a mint green color

Listen Now

Thanks for the Memories, 2022. Now It’s Time to Start Anew

December 14, 2022

BU Today 12-14-2022

December 14, 2022

Photo: Grace Knoop (COM ’23), co-president of BU Figure Skating, performs a solo number during the club’s Holiday Spectacular. A young white woman with red-ginger hair, glides along an ice rink. She wears a green skating dress and smiles as she holds one of her legs back behind her and glides forward.

BU Figure Skating Club Holiday Spectacular

December 13, 2022

Photo of President Brown and Edward Avedisian seated at a large, dark brown table one stage, smiling and looking off to the right at the crowd.

OBITUARY

Edward Avedisian, Clarinetist and Philanthropist Whose $100 Million Gift Renamed BU’s School of Medicine, Dies at 85

December 13, 2022

n this Dec. 1988 file photo, a police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland of Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York. The Dec. 21, 1988 explosion would quickly transform the Scottish town into a byword for international terror. Now it is being remembered again because of the 2011 conflict in Libya, the country that accepted responsibility for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103. (AP Photo)

Parents

Mother of Terrier Killed in 1988 Lockerbie Plane Bombing Says Arrest “Only Brings Sadness”

December 13, 2022

Graduate Students

BU Graduate Students Vote to Unionize in Lopsided Approval

December 13, 2022

BU Today 12-13-2022

December 13, 2022

Photo: Casey Crawford, a young white person with a short hair cut and wearing a white longsleeved shirt, places one of the last few ornaments on a large fir tree before choir rehearsal starts during the annual “Hanging of the Greens” on December 8 at Marsh Chapel.

2022 Hanging of the Greens

December 12, 2022

Photo: Melisa Osborne, a woman wearing a blue face mask and floral burgundy dress, leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. She stands in front of a large lecture class room facing the class as she lectures.

Life Sciences

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare

December 12, 2022

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare