Going Green Earns Plaudits for BU
University ranked country’s 25th most sustainable college Sustainably sourced food comprises 22 percent of the food served in University dining halls. Green initiatives have landed BU a place on two nationally recognized sustainable university guides. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU’s commitment to becoming a more sustainable community has earned accolades from two different organizations. The […]
Questrom’s Link Day Offers Expertise to Nonprofits
Grad students work on a Saturday for good causes The Citizen Schools Link Day team at work: Chi Vo (from left) and Marisabel Jaramillo from Citizen Schools, Diego Da Silva Nunes (Questrom’18), Parul Kashyap (Questrom’18), Lisa Lerma (Questrom’17), Myles Fish (Questrom’18), Sarah Horwitz (Questrom’18), and Dalia Rinaldi (Questrom’18). Photo by Cindy Scott. Chi Vo and […]
SDM Pediatric Dental Clinic Serves the Underserved
Changing lives one filling at a time At the new Goldman School of Dental Medicine Pediatric Oral Healthcare Center’s treatment fair: three-year-old Levi McBride of Dorchester with Yasmin Alayyoubi (SDM’17) (from left), center director Dolrudee Jumlongras, an SDM clinical assistant professor, Athanasios Zavras, an SDM professor and chair of pediatric dentistry, and Stephen Prieve (SDM’18). […]
BU Weighs In Against Trump Travel Ban
Joins seven area schools in amici curiae motion The amici curiae brief submitted by BU, Boston College, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in US District Court supporting a lawsuit calling for repeal of Trump’s executive order on immigration. Boston University and seven other area schools are supporting a federal lawsuit challenging […]
BU Expands Boston Community Service Award Program
Scholarships open to transfers who graduated from city’s public schools Rosy Chen (ENG’17) and both of her sisters have benefited from the Community Service Award program. It’s “the main reason why I’m at BU,” says the computer engineering major. Photo by Cydney Scott. Boston University has deepened its commitment to the city of Boston by […]
President Trump: What He Should Do, How He Should Do It
Students talk about what new US leader ought to focus on On Friday, before a live audience of approximately 800,000, Donald John Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. There remains a great deal of uncertainty about what kind of presidency he intends. A political neophyte, Trump has said—among other […]
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 […]
BU Will Not Share Info on Undocumented Students
Will obey a court order, cannot bar immigration officials from campus More than 2,000 members of the BU community asked the University to declare itself a “sanctuary campus” for undocumented students. Photo (left) by Kalman Zabarsky. Boston University will not share information about any undocumented students with immigration authorities unless those authorities have a subpoena or […]
President Brown Signs Pro-DACA Open Letter
Counters Trump’s threat to kill program for undocumented youth President Robert A. Brown signed an open letter defending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects children of undocumented immigrants. Photo by Brian Snyder. University President Robert A. Brown last week signed an open letter, along with more than 250 higher education leaders, […]
Gifts Endow Three New Career Development Professorships
Awards go to Questrom, CAS, and ENG junior faculty Jessica Simes, a CAS assistant professor of sociology, who studies incarceration and race, has been awarded the first University Provost’s Career Development Professorship. Photo (right) by Cydney Scott. When Jessica Simes was an undergraduate at Occidental College, she was captivated by issues of race and privilege in […]