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Photo: Donte Tisinger (CAS 29) plays a basetball game during a sports camp on July 23,2025.

Summer Camp Fun

August 5, 2025

BU Today 08-05-2025

August 5, 2025

Photo: A black and white photo of various men standing around Franklin D. Roosevelt as he signs the Social Security Bill.

Voices & Opinion

As It Turns 90, Social Security Is Showing Its Age. Boston University Economist Has a Fix

August 4, 2025

Photo: A man in a beanie pours an espresso

Arts & Culture

BU Student Leads a Restaurant—from Almost 7,000 Miles Away

August 4, 2025

BU Today 08-04-2025

August 4, 2025

Books

SPH’s Michael Stein Explores Working-Class Americans with New Book

August 1, 2025

Helen Scott (CDS ’26), (right), a bioinformatics PhD student, guided attendees through a bracelet-making station at Boston University’s Microbiome Day on July 17th. Participants included Mariam Baig (bottom left) and Lily Palumbo (center left). Photo by Alicia Hamm (COM ’26)

BU Microbiome Day

August 1, 2025

BU Today 07-31-2025

July 31, 2025

Wide photo of visitors crowding onto Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA. People are seen sitting on the small, partially rocky shore at left, while others are in the shallow water at right. Houses and buildings lining the street along the beach are seen in the background.

Things-to-do

A Trip to the Sea via the T

July 30, 2025

BU Today 07-30-2025

July 30, 2025

BU Today 07-29-2025

July 29, 2025

Photo: A woman sorts through assorted bags of textiles in a warehouse

International Students

Teaming Up with BU Sustainability to Give Bed Sheets and Towels a New Life

July 28, 2025

BU Today 07-28-2025

July 28, 2025

BU Today 07-25-2025

July 25, 2025

Photo: Pria Anand holding up her book "The Mind Electric," which features a vibrant blue cover and an illustration of the brain with flowers making up different parts

Neurology

BU Neurologist’s New Book Explores Tales Our Brains Tell Us

July 24, 2025

BU Today 07-24-2025

July 24, 2025

Photo: A little home with boxes inside: a free little library for the community.

Health

35 Ways to Build the Community You’re Craving

July 23, 2025

Photo: People lining up at a food truck in Boston

Food & Dining

Boston Has New Late-Night Food Options—and They’re on Wheels

July 23, 2025

Photo: A shot of BU's campus with a few students walking around.

Summertime—and Comm Ave…

July 23, 2025

BU Today 07-23-2025

July 23, 2025