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Faculty

Meet the Newly Promoted Charles River Campus Professors

June 10, 2019

Amber Gray in Hadestown

Alumni

And a Tony Award Goes to…How Many BU Alums?

June 7, 2019

Armen Guerra building a tower out of m&ms and other materials

Sweet research

June 7, 2019

Boston Pride stage

LGBTQ+

To Do Today: Boston Pride Parade and Festival

June 7, 2019

Newsletters

June 6, 2019

Tom Brady about to throw a football

Law

BU Law Prof: Tom Brady Fumbles Trademark Request

June 6, 2019

A shoot of the PSA announcement "The Love Planet"

Science & Technology

COM Student-Made PSAs Underscore the Urgency of Climate Crisis

June 6, 2019

Infest poster

film

To Do Today: See the Next Generation of Filmmakers at the Boston Arts Academy Film Festival

June 6, 2019

An edition of Anne Frank's diary

History

Natick’s World War II Museum Commemorates 75th Anniversary of D-Day

June 6, 2019

John Thomas

Take the leap

June 6, 2019

Mariette DiChristina

Faculty

New College of Communication Dean Is Scientific American Editor-in-Chief

June 6, 2019

Walter Fluker

Religion

Walter Fluker, MLK Professor of Ethical Leadership, to Retire after Coming Academic Year

June 5, 2019

Dahod Family Alumni Center

In Dahod

June 5, 2019

This visualization of Twitter activity shows how tweets about fake news (orange) spread farther than tweets about real news (teal). Image credit: (image) Peter Beshai; (data) Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral

Social Media

Could Taxes Deter the Spread of Harmful Fake News?

June 4, 2019

From top to bottom and left to right, Sanaya Shroff (ENG'21), Mounika Vutukuru(ENG'20), Radost Stanimirova(GRS'24), Professor Kim McCall, Cynthia Brossman, Dr. Beverly Brown, Professor Emerita Deborah Belle, Professor Sheryl Grace, Dr. Angela Seliga, Dr. Winnie Pong, and Dr. Daniel Kleinman take a moment to get picture taken at the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering 10-year Anniversary Gala on Thursday, May 30, 2019

Gala’s night out

June 4, 2019

A picture of gelato for the scooper festival

In the City

To Do Today: Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl

June 4, 2019

Hundreds of members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts will march from Faneuil Hall to the Boston Common and on to the Old South Church in the annual June Day Parade

Local

To Do Today: June Day Military Parade

June 3, 2019

Max and his owner playing fetch

Fetch on the BU Beach

June 3, 2019

A rendering of what the north side of Kenmore Square will look like when construction on Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue is completed.

Campus & Facilities

Construction Begins on Former BU Buildings in Kenmore Square

June 3, 2019

ORLEANS, MA - AUGUST 31: A shark flag blows in the wind at an entrance point to Nauset Beach in Orleans, MA on Aug. 31, 2018. Shark sightings are an almost daily occurrence on Cape Cod over the summer. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Cape Cod, Sharks, and a New Reality

June 1, 2019