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Two women walking with umbrellas

June Rain

June 6, 2017

Marsh Chapel at dusk. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

University News

The 2016–2017 Year in Pictures

June 5, 2017

Motao Liu working on laptop

Yawkey Center for Student Services

June 5, 2017

Jevin Eagle, BU Hillel’s new executive director

Religion

BU Hillel’s New Executive Director Follows His Dream

June 5, 2017

David Bray and William Hackett in front of e-board poster

CILSE Symposium

June 2, 2017

Odyssey Opera performs Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta

Music

Odyssey Opera Stages Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta

June 2, 2017

Boston University men’s rowing team

Sports

BU Rowing Teams Hope to Triumph at Season’s Grand Finale

June 2, 2017

ICA Free Thursday Nights not only offer free admission each week, but free concerts by Berklee College of Music students each Thursday in July and August.

Fine Arts

Free Thursday Nights at the Institute of Contemporary Art

June 1, 2017

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda at standing table with BU students

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda

June 1, 2017

With “the Beast,” as Wesley Wildman calls his research team’s custom-made computer, questions in religion studies become testable via simulation.

Research

What Computer Modeling Can Tell Us about Religion

June 1, 2017

This spring, 19 faculty on the Charles River Campus have been promoted to associate professor with tenure, one to non-tenure-track associate professor, and another to full professor.

Charles River Campus

Charles River Campus Faculty Receive Promotions, Tenure

June 1, 2017

A scene from Huntington Theatre Company production of David Lindsay Abaire’s Ripcord.

Huntington Theatre

Huntington Closes Out 35th Season with a Comedy

May 31, 2017

Among the 14 Medical Campus faculty promoted from assistant to associate professor are nationally recognized experts on intimate partner violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, and addiction treatment.

Medicine

Medical Campus Faculty Advance to Rank of Associate Professor

May 31, 2017

Beverly Brown at podium. Rose Girouard wearing tiara.

Rose Girouard Coronation

May 31, 2017

Participants in the Storytelling with Data Workshops will learn methods for scraping from a web site and new data visualization techniques.

Business & Law

Data Storytelling Is for Everyone

May 30, 2017

Sam Sokolow with Genius star Geoffrey Rush at a premiere event for Genius in Palo Alto, Calif.

Strategy & Innovation

The Alum behind National Geographic’s Genius

May 30, 2017

Overhead aerial view of the 2017 Boston University Commencement

Photography

Hiding in Plain View

May 30, 2017

The Brookline, Mass., home where President John F. Kennedy was born is run by the National Park Service and is open to the public from mid-May through October.

Celebrating John F. Kennedy’s Centennial

May 30, 2017

Ying Yao looking through pinhole camera

Pinhole Camera

May 30, 2017

The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund plants 37,000 flags on the Boston Common each Memorial Day as a tribute to fallen Massachusetts veterans.

Arts & Culture

How to Spend Memorial Day Weekend in Boston

May 26, 2017

How to Spend Memorial Day Weekend in Boston