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Photo of Jordana Kasaato (ENG’23), left, and Kendall Lowe (CAS’22) try their hand at a fishing game on the COM lawn during the BU Brazilian Association’s Junina Party in honor of the annual Festas Juninas April 30, which in Brazil runs throughout June. Kasaato, a young Black woman with long braids, who wears a black jacket and jeans, laughs as her fishing line gets tangled with Lowe's. Lowe is a young Black woman with long braised who wears a black sweater and amber pants. She smiles as she holds up her fishing rod. The pair are sitting on lawn chairs and fishing from a large plastic bin filled with water. Other students on the COM lawn can be seen behind them, it's a sunny spring day.

BU Brazilian Association’s Festa Junina

May 2, 2022

Listen Now

How Do I Get a Job after College?

May 2, 2022

Collage of 3 photos of the 2022 Perkins Service Award staff winners from left to right: Francis Antonelli, Nancy Clinton, and Cynthia Bradford

Accolades

2022 Perkins Service Awards Go to Three Longtime BU Staffers

May 2, 2022

The husband-and-wife duo, Noah (ENG’21) and Astha Flynn (CAS’18, Questrom’23), stood alongside Ian Mashiter, interim executive director of Innovate@BU, Li Liang, managing director of the BUild Lab, and Tom Samph (COM’10), program director of Innovate@BU, after winning an $18,000 check for their start-up, MetNet.

Accolades

Entrepreneurial Students, Alum Take Home $64,000 in Cash Prizes at Recent Innovate@BU’s New Venture Competition

May 2, 2022

Kathleen Overbaugh runs the track with a baton in hand as someone races in close pursuit as onlookers cheer

BU Athletics

Track and Field Terriers Head to Patriot League Outdoor Championships

May 2, 2022

A composite image of profiles of Cheryl Hercules, Maria Ochua and Jeffrey Brunz

Business & Law

Online MBA, “Biggest Experiment” in Questrom’s History, Is a Success

May 2, 2022

BU Today 5-02-2022

May 2, 2022

Photo of Amya Liburd (CAS’24), a brown-skinned woman with long, curly brown hair wearing a blue sweatshirt, and sitting in a gray lawn chair as she reads for her Women’s American History course on BU Beach April 20 under a cherry blossom tree in bloom. The tree has small pink and white flowers. The arches in Marsh Plaza are seen behind her.

BU Beach in Bloom

May 1, 2022

Photo of a young Ukrainian girl sleeping on top of a pile of suitcases. She is sleeping underneath a few thick blankets and a large pile of suitcases is seen behind her.

Refugee Crisis

First Afghans. Now Ukrainians. BMC Immigrant & Refugee Health Center Gets Ready to Help Again

April 29, 2022

BU Today 4-29-2022

April 29, 2022

Photo of Max Rosen (Sargent’23) reading the names of victims of the Holocaust in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) April 28 in Marsh Plaza. Rosen has short curly hair, wears a gray jacket, and speaks into a microphone a top a wooden podium. In the foreground, candles and small rocks are seen on a table with a red table cloth. In background, the sky is bright blue with a few clouds.

We Will Never Forget

April 28, 2022

Photo of Mita Das, (left), a Bentley University Senior Lecturer of Mathematical Sciences and Prreeti Tiwari, right of South Windsor, CT, rehearsing for the Playwright's Theatre marathon. Das wears a green vest, white long sleeve, black pants and wears no shoes. She is a brown woman with brown hair. She sits on a stool and leans over to Tiwari, putting her hand on her knee. Tiwari, a brown woman with short black hair, looks forlorn, and wears bright yellow overalls.

Theatre

Boston Theater Marathon Returns to Live, In-Person Performances—and to BU

April 28, 2022

Photo of Judy Braha (CFA’08) at a rehearsal for Shakespeare in Love. Braha wears a long, light blue button-down and black jeans. She's a white woman with short, gray hair. Behind her, in a room with wooden floor, five students are seen rehearsing dance moves.

Theatre

CFA’s Judy Braha Caps BU Career Directing Shakespeare in Love

April 28, 2022

BU Today 4-28-2022

April 28, 2022

Photo of Gulfiya Nassyrova (LAW’22), left, and her son Nariman Temirbekov (LAW’22) beginning to study for a course on security transactions March 3 at LAW. Gulfiya is a middle-aged woman with light skin and shoulder-length brown hair and wears a face mask. She points to a line in a text book and has her laptop open in front of her. Nariman is a young man with short dark brown hair and transition glasses. He wears a gray sweatshirt and sits in front of a laptop.

A Family Affair

April 27, 2022

Photo of Lizzy Nevins, a young woman wearing a black riding helmet and red BU Equestrian jacket, standing next to BU Equestrian head coach Phyllis Cervelli, wearing a similar red jacket and white cap, in a barn barn. Lizzy is shown petting the head of a large dark brown horse with a black mane as Cervelli looks on to her right.

Watch Now

Yes, BU Has an Equestrian Team. And It Just Had a Record Season

April 27, 2022

photo of the inside of Roadrunner during a concert with a full house. On stage, at back, a band is playing, lit by bright white lights. The photo is taken from above on the second floor balcony.

In the City

Six Boston Live Music Venues to Check Out

April 27, 2022

Photo of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at What the Science Tells Us: Racial Health and Economic Inequities during the Pandemic Symposium presented by The BU Center for Antiracist Research in the Metcalf Hall October 1. He wears a blue suit and a patterned blue button down. He sits on stage with hands folded in lap as he looks on to the audience.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: April 28 to May 1

April 27, 2022

A portrait photo of Emily Rothman

Health & Medicine

Helping Autistic Survivors of Sexual Assault

April 27, 2022

A candlelit vigil in front of the whitehouse for nurses who have died of COVID-19

Voices & Opinion

POV: The Lessons of One Million Lives Lost to COVID in the US

April 27, 2022

POV: The Lessons of One Million Lives Lost to COVID in the US