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Photo of a young boy White boy with blonde, reddish hair smiling as he swims underwater in a pool. He faces the camera, wears blue and red googles and has his arms at his side. The water is super below and he swims close to the surface.

Water Safety

Top Water Safety Tips for Kids from a FitRec Expert

June 29, 2022

BU Today 6-29-2022

June 29, 2022

photo of David King (BUMC-IT staff), from left, Lourdes Amieva (MET’22), Scott Amico (BUMC-IT staff), and Shaw Hutton (CGS’25) on the Pride Month BBQ event held by BU Dean of Students’ Office at GSU on Friday, June 24, 2022. They sit at a black metal outdoor table, which has a large, rainbow pride flag draped over the front half. At left, King is a young White man who wears a gray Pride flag t-shirt and smiles. Amieva has long brown hair, light skin and wears a floral blouse as she smiles. Amico wears a dark short sleeve button down and glasses and smiles. Hutton wears a gradient blue t-shirt and has short, curly brown hair and smiles wide. Other folks eating outside at the GSU can be seen behind them.

Pride BBQ

June 28, 2022

A photo of Lizzo in a shimmering gold outfit on a stage performing in summer 2022

Voices & Opinion

POV: Plaudits to Lizzo for Changing the Word “Spaz” in Her New Song “Grrrls”

June 28, 2022

A hand holds a tv remote, pointed at a black tv screen

Health & Medicine

So Much News: Should You Turn it Off or Turn it Up?

June 28, 2022

A picture of Vincent Stephens, wearing glasses and a blue plaid shirt. Rainbow stripes adorn the sides of the image

LGBTQ+

My Coming Out Story: Vincent Stephens

June 28, 2022

A white man sits at a desk while typing on a laptop. There is a phone and two notebooks nearby. The view is from the top down.

Faculty & Staff

Is Flexible Work Working for You? BU Wants to Know

June 28, 2022

BU Today 6-28-2022

June 28, 2022

Kenneth Elmore stands before a group of his colleagues at a going away party at the Hotel Commonwealth on June 22nd, 2022. Elmore is wearing a dark suit and stands at a podium in a well lit ballroom.

Goodbye to Dean of Students Kenn Elmore

June 27, 2022

BU Today 6-27-2022

June 27, 2022

Composite image. At left, a diverse group of pro-life women celebrate in front of SCOTUS after Roe v. Wade was overturned. One woman holds a sign that says "I am the post Roe generation." At right, two young women with March for Our Lives t-shirts on embrace each other. The woman at left is weeping, the other holds her head in her arm.

SCOTUS

Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Ending 50 Years of Abortion Rights

June 24, 2022

protestors outside the Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24th.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Worsen Health Inequities in All Reproductive Care

June 24, 2022

Photo of ENG professor Ioannis Paschalidis, leaning against a glass door and slightly smiling. He wears a dark blue suit, light blue shirt, and red and white striped tie. He is a light-skinned middle-aged man with short brown and gray hair.

University News

ENG’s Ioannis Paschalidis New Director of Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

June 24, 2022

BU Today 6-24-2022

June 24, 2022

Photo of, at center, a White man with sunglasses, a beard, and wearing a green hat with a military style vest and rifle. He stands amidst a crowd of people and American flags and also has a military style headset. A man at right who is partially seen seems to be wearing similar combat style gear. Children and families can be seen in the ground.

SCOTUS

Supreme Court Overturns New York’s Concealed Carry Gun Law

June 23, 2022

Photo of Charlestown High School senior Chakaiya Harrison (center), a Menino Scholar and Charlestown High School’s Class of 2022 school's salutatorian, doing quick dance with her friends, Kaemani Hammonds, left, and Marley Gustama on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 before or after the ceremony. The students pictured are all young people of color and they wear bright blue caps and gowns as they smile and laugh together.

2022 Charlestown H.S. Graduation

June 23, 2022

Photo of Kate Snodgrass, a middle aged White woman with a gray bob, who wears a dark blue scarf with white pattern. She sits on the corner of a couch, presumably in her office, where framed awards and playbills hang on the wall behind her.

Faculty

Curtain Call for Kate Snodgrass (GRS’90) at BU and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre

June 23, 2022

Rohan Gupta with his Webby Award in hand. He is wearing a grey suit and a white undershirt

Accolades

New Alum Wins Best Student Video at 2022 Webby Awards

June 23, 2022

BU Today 6-23-2022

June 23, 2022

Photo of a bright green bobcat machine and a larger, yellow machine with a large roller hanging off an arm, traversing Nickerson field. Large rolls of the astroturf being pulled off can be seen running North-South up the field. In the foreground, the gray bleachers of Nickerson are seen.

Nickerson Gets a Turf-lift

June 22, 2022