COMMENCEMENT 2024
Advice to the Class of 2024: “Say Thank You”
In this video, faculty and staff offer some parting words of wisdom to this year’s graduates
Music
Class of 2024: Songs That Remind You of Your Last Four Years at Boston University
A playlist curated for the Class of 2024. If you know, you know.
Commencement
Make Your Commencement Photos Pop with These Clever Hacks
Simple tricks to help step up your photo game
CELOP
ESL Classes Offered to BU Dining Services Workers
Recent graduation ceremony celebrated their hard work and commitment
Advocacy
Providing Better Support to Disabled Survivors of Sexual Assault
Sargent occupational therapy OTD students to present best practices at annual meeting of New York sexual violence counselors and survivor advocates
Today’s Close-up
Life Science Innovation: Who Should Pay?
The panel discussion “Life Science Innovation: Who Should Pay?” was held May 9 at WBUR’s CitySpace. Hosted by Questrom’s Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, panelists Curt Nickisch (Questrom’13) (from right), Harvard Business Review IdeaCast cohost, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.), Rena Conti, a Questrom associate professor of markets, public policy, and law, Michael Sherman, RA Capital Management venture partner, and Andrew Obenshain, biotech company bluebird bio CEO, explored how to ensure continued innovation and access to gene and cell therapy without breaking the bank.
Photo by Melissa Ostrow
Birding
A Birder’s Guide to Boston University
Believe it or not, more than 100 bird species visit BU’s urban campuses—whether you’re a beginning bird-watcher or an expert in ornithology, there’s lots to see
Student Life
Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports
Marcel Awori (Sargent’24) sponsors Kenyan youth basketball team and league with weekly Sargent stipends
Voices & Opinion
POV: Decision to Reclassify Marijuana as a Less Dangerous Drug Is Long Overdue
Move signals a new opportunity for scientific research and economic opportunities, but questions remain
Alumni
COM’s Newest Journalism Grad Took Her Time
Betsy Dribben left BU in 1968—55 years later she returned to finish her degree
Science & Technology
Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day
Project was one of nearly 100 student presentations on display at BU’s semiannual Experiential Learning Expo
Awards
BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
Photonics Center Director Thomas Bifano recognized for helping others nurture their ideas and for “always trying to solve problems”
Promotions
22 Charles River Campus Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
List includes researchers and scholars from CAS, COM, ENG, Questrom, STH, SSW, and Wheelock
Science & Technology
Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event
Seniors from New Mission High School compete in annual Shark Tank-like event, with help from BU undergrad and grad student mentors
Style
Comm Ave Runway: May Edition
Our monthly fashion series finds stylish students and asks them how they achieve their look
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- Comm Ave Runway: May Edition
Business & Law
- POV: Decision to Reclassify Marijuana as a Less Dangerous Drug Is Long Overdue
- Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports
- Q&A: Why Are So Many People Leaving Massachusetts?
Campus Life
- Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports
- A Birder’s Guide to Boston University
- Advice to the Class of 2024: “Say Thank You”
Health & Medicine
- Providing Better Support to Disabled Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports
- Combating Loneliness and Creating Healthy Relationships
In the City
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- Cloud Computing Platform CloudWeaver Wins at Spring 2024 Spark! Demo Day
- Boston Teens Pitch Biotech Concepts to BU “Investors” at Biological Design Center’s STEM Pathways Event
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences Welcomes Five BU Members
Sports
- Sargent Senior Gives Back to His Native Nairobi—through Sports
- BU Track and Field Teams Compete at 2024 Patriot League Outdoor Championships This Weekend
- Does Caitlin Clark Signal a New Era in Women’s Sports?
University News
- Kahn Award Will Carry Theater Arts Major Madeline Riddick-Seals Back to Alabama
- Commencement 2024: What You Need to Know
- ESL Classes Offered to BU Dining Services Workers
Voices & Opinion
- POV: Decision to Reclassify Marijuana as a Less Dangerous Drug Is Long Overdue
- Advice to the Class of 2024: “Say Thank You”
- How to Have ‘The Talk’: What I’ve Learned About Discussing Sex