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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

Photo collage of various women's athletic teams and players throughout the decade. The background is a turf field with a muted gray overlay. The images include: a black and white photo of the women's beanpot champions from 1981, a photo of BU women's golfer Hanako Kawasaki holding a golf club behind her back and wear a red visor; photo of Elizabeth Morse (CGS'14), left trying to keep possession of the ball with teammate Siobhan McCarthy (CGS'15) on defense during drills at BU women's lacrosse; photo of Stephanie Nasson (SAR'16) of the women's swim team mid-stroke, wearing a red cap and goggles; photo of Chiara Tibbitt (CAS'22) taking a shot during basketball practice; an old film photo of Jeanne Friedman and other women's rowing team members from the the mid-70s holding a trophy; black and white photo of Jennifer Lanctot O'Neill (Questrom'91), BU's first three-time female All-American, running with a relay stick; and photo of the BU women's soccer team in a team huddle. At center, an excerpt from Title IX is seen; it looks as if it has been torn from a page.

Gender & Sports

Title IX Turns 50: It Changed Society—but Now It Must Go Further

June 22, 2022

Photo of David Chard, a white man with short gray hair and short gray beard. He wears a blue-gray suit and maroon tie and sits with his hand folded over his knee in what looks like a study or office. At top left and right, rainbows are overlaid.

PRIDE

My Coming Out Story: David Chard

June 22, 2022

A woman in a striped shirt and vest stands in a classroom full of children, facing the camera

Boston

To Do Today: Roxbury International Film Festival

June 22, 2022

BU Today 6-22-2022

June 22, 2022

Photo taken from behind students seated at easels as they participate in an Introduction to Drawing class at CFA on June 7, 2022. The are back lit and are seen in silhouette. On a white wall in front of them, large black and white geometric drawings are seen. A white-ish blue box is seen in the left foreground.

Summer Drawing Class

June 21, 2022

An illustration by Sky & Telescope that depicts where certain planets will be in the sky on June 24th

Astronomy

Want to See Five Planets with Your Naked Eye This Week?

June 21, 2022

BU Today 6-21-2022

June 21, 2022

Composite image, three photos of students at BU's Juneteenth celebration. At top, a wide photo of students sitting in the GSU courtyard on picnic blankets and talking to one another. At bottom, left: Sabah Choudhury (CAS’24), at left, and Ekta Karkala (CAS’24) lay on a red and white checkered picnic blanket and smile for the camera. Both are young women of color with long dark hair. At bottom right,

Juneteenth Celebration Cookout

June 20, 2022

Composite image of ten book covers included in the summer reads listicle. Books include: “Love Marriage”. “Olga Dies Dreaming", ”Girl on Fire”, By the Book”, “Young Mungo”, “There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important", "Portrait of a Thief", "Girls Can Kiss Girls Now", and "Happy-Go-Lucky".

Literature

15 Great Summer Reads Sure to Keep You Turning the Pages

June 20, 2022

15 Great Summer Reads Sure to Keep You Turning the Pages