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How Does BU Golf Team Practices an Outdoor Sport? Inside!
The Boston University Golf Team is the smallest program at BU Athletics, with only seven members on the roster, and there isn't a men’s golf program at BU. What’s it like to be play on a varsity golf team when you have to contend with New England [...]winters and late springs? Members of the BU golf team talk about how they rise to the challenge.
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Clues to Extraterrestrial Life... Here on Earth! | Science Explained
What if clues to the nature of extraterrestrial life could be found right here on earth? Not in the form of little green men, but little green microbes?
At Boston University, Jeff Marlow studies what’s known as “extremophile” life. These are [...]living organisms that thrive in environments that would be toxic to you and me: undersea methane seeps, active volcanos, alkaline springs. Marlow travels by helicopter, by submersible, by rappel line, to some of the most inhospitable–to humans!--environments the earth has to offer, in search of these microbial communities, which can give us valuable insight into the origins of life itself.
In the video above, BU student Natalie Lett (COM’27) explains the science behind extremophile life, and asks Marlow, a BU College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of biology, how these microbial communities might give us clues to life on Mars.
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BU's LEXI Telescope Lands on the Moon! | Student Explains Mission
Boston University’s LEXI telescope has landed on the moon and is already capturing groundbreaking data! Hear from BU student Natalie Lett (COM’27) about this groundbreaking mission and the research it will advance. This project is in [...]collaboration with Johns Hopkins and NASA Goddard.
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Meet Favor Wariboko (CAS'24): Lead Coordinator for Brothers United
In the latest installment of our video series Terriers in Charge, featuring student leaders, Favor Wariboko (CAS’24), lead coordinator for Brothers United, talks about providing a community on campus for men of color and helping foster the Black [...]leaders of tomorrow.
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Meet Alex Dowd, Producer and Anchor of Good Morning BU | Terriers in Charge
Each Friday morning, at a time when most Terriers are still asleep, Alex Dowd is hard at work preparing for the live broadcast of BUTV10’s Good Morning BU. As producer and anchor of the weekly show, Dowd (COM’24) arrives at COM’s Studio West at [...]5:30 am to begin prepping for the show, which airs at 10 am each week. Like its network morning show counterparts, Good Morning BU features a lively mix of news (campus, local, and international), entertainment, and sports,
As the show’s coproducer, Dowd is responsible for developing story ideas and editing packages and is on-air talent as well. She also oversees the writing room. Throughout the week, she’s scanning news sites, looking at international, national, local, and campus headlines for stories that she feels are a good fit for GMBU, as the show is known. She and writers meet each Thursday to hammer out a rundown and a script. The next morning, the staff of nearly 40 gathers for a quick run-through at 9 am before the cameras begin rolling live an hour later.
The show, which launched a decade ago, is the only live news program produced by BUTV10. As such, Dowd says, it offers invaluable experience to the students working as writers, correspondents, editors, and tech crew.
“GMBU is great for the students at COM because we are able to provide live television experience. it’s a learned skill. Preparing for a segment versus performing it or delivering it live feels completely different,” she says. And because there are no retakes or do-overs, cast and crew have to learn how to improvise or quickly recover from any flubs and then move on.
Skills that will no doubt come in handy for Dowd. After she graduates in January, she will become an on-air reporter for KGUN 9, the ABC affiliate in Tucson, Ariz.
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