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Admissions

University Extends Standardized Test Optional Policy for Another Year

February 19, 2021

COVID ON CAMPUS

Weekly COVID Compliance Report: February 19

February 19, 2021

A photo of the BU women's basketball team wearing masks with their hands over their hearts before a game

Varsity Sports

BU Athletics Is Playing Black National Anthem before Many Home Games for Black History Month

February 19, 2021

BU Today 02-19-2021

February 19, 2021

Food & Dining

Kenmore Square Favorite Eastern Standard Closes Permanently

February 18, 2021

Photo of director of Nursing, Anne Patey, preparing to give a patient the Covid vaccine on January 15, 2020. The shot is very dark, and Patey is seen in silhouette holding the vaccine at eye-level while seated. She wears a face mask and face shield, and sun light comes in from a window behind her.

Coronavirus

WBUR Ramps Up COVID Coverage as Vaccine Rollout Increases

February 18, 2021

Arts & Culture

Two Poets, Drawn by History, Headline Thursday’s Lowell Poetry Reading

February 18, 2021

Composite image. On the left, the book cover for ‘Diners, Dudes and Diets’ by Emily Contois. An illustration of a hamburger fills out the cover, buns sandwich the title text. On the right is a portrait of Emily Contois, a young woman with her hair pulled back and a ruffled blouse smiles welcomingly. The images are place on a wooden grain background.

Books

Diet Yogurt and Guy Fieri: How Food Media Constructed “Dude” Masculinity

February 18, 2021

A portrait photo of Jesse Compher holding a hockey stick upright

Varsity Sports

Women’s Ice Hockey’s Jesse Compher Has Her Sights Set on the 2022 Winter Olympics

February 18, 2021

Detail photo of a bowl of Chili Con Carne on a wooden table with recipe ingredients.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: February 18 to 21

February 18, 2021

Photo of students in Sargent’s occupational therapy program in full blue PPE gowns, face shields and masks, during a training session. One student lays on the bed while the other attends to mock-patient.

Admissions

Applications Up for BU Graduate Programs Leading to Socially Conscious “Helper” Careers

February 18, 2021

BU Today 02-18-2021

February 18, 2021

Tight photo of Student Health Services medical assistant Mackenzie Fallon at the vaccine clinic January 15 at FitRec. She wears a face shield with a blue band, a blue surgical mask, and purple gloves as extracts vaccine from a vial, looking focused as she does so. In the foreground, the back of patient’s head is seen.

Mass. COVID Vaccination, Phase 2B

February 17, 2021

A photo of Sarah Gordon, Paul Shafer, and Megan Cole Brahim standing next to one another wearing masks

Public Health

New BU Lab Studies Medicaid, Where Racism, Poverty, and COVID-19 Meet

February 17, 2021

Photo taken from over the shoulder of a research in a white shirt sitting at a desk looking at a laptop with a screen filled with colorful charts that pertain to “Epidemiological Data Analysis”.

Public Health

SPH Alums Help Create a Toolkit to End Structural Racism

February 17, 2021

BU Today 02-17-2021

February 17, 2021

BU Athletics Bands practice on GSU Plaza

BU Bands

BU Athletics Bands Honor University’s Essential Workers in Song

February 17, 2021

Photo of Trish Hawkins (CFA’21), wears a gray and white sweater and blue painting smock, as she work on her painting of the Santa Maria della Salute, a Roman Catholic church in the city of Venice, Italy, which has a large central white dome. Hawkins works in the Main Print Shop in Booth Theater February 10, behind her stacks of canvases are seen stored; one painting shows an orange knight from a wall frieze.

Scenic Art

February 16, 2021

Photo taken on the Boston esplanade near BU looking towards downtown. The river and esplanade are covered in snow; the sky fades to light pink in the distant.

Wintry Beauty

February 16, 2021

illustration of 3 superheroes wearing medical facemasks silhouetted by the sunrise

COVID Heroes

Who Is Your BU Unsung Hero of the Pandemic?

February 16, 2021

Who Is Your BU Unsung Hero of the Pandemic?