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BU Today 9-1-2022

September 1, 2022

Ryan Loughran stands on the wings of a small plane while it flies

Student Life

Working the Pacific Northwest Trail

August 31, 2022

Boston University student in the sun on Nickerson Field for the 2022 Commencement activities

Finance

What Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Means for BU Students

August 31, 2022

Photo of Gorbachev waving. An older white man wearing a black wool coat and hat waves to an unseen crowd.

Politics

Q&A: Gorbachev’s Death, Putin’s Rise, and Cold War Politics

August 31, 2022

Photo of Scott Taylor. A bald black man with a neatly trimmed silver beard and mustache poses and looks directly at the camera. He wears a navy blazer and teal collared shirt and stands in front of a tree in a green field.

New Appointment

Georgetown Africa Scholar Named New Dean of Pardee School of Global Studies

August 31, 2022

BU Today 8-31-2022

August 31, 2022

Photo of Sitarah Lakhani posing in front of her mural. A young Brown woman with dark hair and blonde highlights wearing a white dress with red sash poses in front of a large mural made up pf various women of different ethnicities and styles on the side of a large brick building.

Ribbon-Cutting Held for BU Academy Mural

August 30, 2022

A photo collage of Evan Jimenez (COM’23)'s various experiences at Boston University.

Student Life

Five Things I Wish I Knew as a First-Year Student

August 30, 2022

Diana, Princess of Wales death anniversary. File photo dated 13/5/1996 of the Princess of Wales, Royal Patron for the International Spinal Research Trust (ISRT), at Kensington Palace in London to celebrate the start of the charity's biggest ever fundraiser, Push 2000, a wheelchair push from Land's End to John O'Groats. Twenty four years have passed since Diana, Princess of Wales died in a Paris car crash. The princess - the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex's late mother - was just 36 was she was killed on August 31 1997. Issue date: Tuesday August 31, 2021. See PA story ROYAL Diana. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire URN:62090578 (Press Association via AP Images)

Arts & Culture

Why Are We Still Talking about Princess Diana 25 Years after Her Death?

August 30, 2022

BU Today 8-30-2022

August 30, 2022

Photo of new women’s soccer coach Casey Brown (COM’10) with the rest of the women's team at a welcome event for Brown. The team stands in three throws, they wear red, white and gray 'Terrier Soccer' sweatshirt written in red font, the front row is crouched. They all gather at the grotto near Nickerson Field. The assistant coaches are seen in gray at right. The group is mostly White, with a few women of color.

New Era for Women’s Soccer

August 29, 2022

Photo of a diverse of students, most of them women, taking a selfie behind a large blue picnic blanket. The women smile as a student of color holds up her phone to take the selfie. The grass of the park is bright green and British houses and a large tree can be seen in the background.

Campus Life

CGS Freshmen Return to London This Summer after Two-Year Hiatus

August 29, 2022

BU Today 8-29-2022

August 29, 2022

Photo of Mary Skipper, Boston Public Schools' incoming superintendent talks to Mike Sabin, (left), Boston Public School's director of school transformation and Efrain Toledano, region 6 school superintendent. Skipper is a White woman, with short blondeish hair and dangling earrings; she wears a red shirt with white flowers. She leans over to speak to Sabin and Toledano who wear blue suit jackets and blue button-downs and sit in blue lecture hall seats.

Boston Public Schools Leadership Institute

August 28, 2022

Image: Blue and white banner for the BU alert system. Text reads: "Stay in the know with BU Alert. Update your contact information now!". Icons show various ways people can be reached and an arrow points to a QR code to update the system.

Safety

New BU Alert System Includes App for Quicker Communications during Emergencies

August 27, 2022

Photo of President Joe Biden speaking about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. An older white man wearing a navy suit and white collared shirt speaks into a microphone on a lectern. A Latino man wearing glasses, black blazer, and white collared shirt stands to his right.

Student Loans

Would Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Survive a Court Challenge?

August 26, 2022

BOSTON, MA - MAY 19: Where's the rest of the bike? This wheel is locked to a rail in the 500 block of Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, May 19, 2016. (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff

Campus Safety

Tips for Students on How to Protect Your Property

August 26, 2022

As a CAS associate professor of the practice of playwriting, Nathan Alan Davis will run the University’s MFA Playwriting Program, and Megan Sandberg-Zakian is the new artistic director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Here the two stand back to back on Commonwealth Ave outside the theatre. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Arts & Culture

Longtime Collaborators Raising the Curtain on a New Era for Playwriting at BU

August 25, 2022

BU Today 8-25-2022

August 25, 2022

Photo of students moving back to BU's campus . A blurry overhead action shot shows students moving a large yellow cart and bed supplies as they move into a dorm building.

Move-in

Move-in 2022: What You Need to Know

August 23, 2022

Move-in 2022: What You Need to Know