COM Covers the Inauguration
Students to file for BU News Service today through Saturday BU News Service editors Rob Carter and Sarah Toy are coordinating student coverage of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Most of the nation will watch Donald Trump’s inauguration tomorrow from the comfort of their own homes. It will be more frenzied for […]
Comm Ave Remake Kicks Off
$20.4M project will improve bike safety, T stops From left, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, President Robert A. Brown, Governor Charlie Baker, and Thomas J. Tinlin, MassDOT highway administrator, at the groundbreaking ceremony for Phase II of the Commonwealth Avenue Improvement Project. Photo by Dennis Carlberg. BU President Robert A. Brown broke ground last Friday […]
COM Launches INVOLVD Political Smartphone App
Seeks to engage millennials, offers interactive features Users can find out where Clinton and Trump stand on nearly two dozen issues, including student debt, using the INVOLVD app (photo to the left). Still unsure who to vote for in next month’s presidential election? Unclear about where the candidates stand on a particular issue? Looking for […]
Celebrating BU’s African American Legacy
Washington events timed to opening of new museum Alumni Celebration Breakfast panelists Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15), NAACP president, Richard L. Taylor (COM’71), former Massachusetts secretary of transportation and BU’s first Rhodes scholar, and Andrea L. Taylor (COM’68), president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and a trustee of the University. Photo by […]
NEIDL Symposium: Talking about Infectious Diseases
Anthony Fauci, David Quammen address scientists, BU community members, the public National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci told the NEIDL symposium audience that because there have always been, and always will be, emerging infectious diseases, “we need people and efforts like those that are going on right here, at BU, and […]
GROWing in the Lab
High school women get hands-on experience in scientific research Delaney Griffiths (left), a senior at Westwood High School, gets some advice about her experiment from mentor Kelsey Williford (MED’21), a neuroscientist, as part of the GROW program, which brings area high school students into BU research labs for the summer. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Delaney […]
BU Covers the Democratic National Convention
COM students report live from Philadelphia for BU News Service Boston University News Service students Andrea Asuaje (COM’17) (from left), Jonathan Gang (COM’17), Michael Sol Warren (COM’17), and Michelle Johnson, a COM associate professor of journalism, work inside the media tent outside the Wells Fargo Center during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Photo by Pankaj […]
Center for Teaching & Learning Expands Efforts
BU Center for Teaching & Learning fellows: (back row, from left) Jonathan Hibbard, Christophor Cavalieri, Cheryl McSweeney, Kaija Schilde, Pary Fassihi, Peter Zink, and Scott Marr; (front row, from left) Sophie Hochhäusl, Gouri Gupte, center director Matthew Trevett-Smith, Bruce Anderson, and Rosina Georgiadis; (not pictured) Anthony Mecham. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Matthew Trevett-Smith sent an email […]
Commencement Speaker: Embrace Your Fear of the Unknown Future
Former CBS executive Nina Tassler says life took her to unexpected joys Commencement speaker Nina Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16) told BU graduates not to be afraid to edit their dreams and rewrite the story of what they want to do in life during the University’s 143rd Commencement Sunday. Video by BU Productions. Photo by Dana J. […]
Travis Roy to Receive Honorary Degree
Former Terrier hockey player now major supporter of spinal cord research View the video: Travis Roy reflects on his life 20 years after a paralyzing injury and talks about what he sees for his future. Photo by Jackie Riccardi. When Travis Roy heard he would receive an honorary degree at this year’s Commencement ceremony, he had […]