Meet the winners of BU’s 2025 Hospitality Innovation and Student Wellbeing Competition

It all starts with an idea. Do you have an innovative idea about how to support students’ social wellbeing at BU? These students did! In the spirit of Experience Innovation, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration and Student Wellbeing celebrate these winners of the 2025 $12.5k Student Wellbeing Competition.  The Student Wellbeing Competition focuses on innovative ideas or […]

BU Student Mental Health Services Honored in Princeton Review Project

Boston University is one of 16 colleges named to the Princeton Review’s 2025 Mental Health Services Honor Roll, an inaugural list of schools recognized for the ways they help students facing mental health challenges. “Mental health and wellness are ingrained in the BU experience,” the University’s citation says, while peer resources were praised for helping Terriers “identify signs […]

[BU Experts] Wellness in Hospitality: The Increasing Need for Education

Leora Lanz, Executive Director of the Online Program and Associate Professor of Marketing at BU’s School of Hospitality Administration, explores how wellness is becoming a core component of hospitality marketing. Drawing from her experience teaching advanced experiential marketing, Lanz illustrates the importance of incorporating wellness into brand positioning, guest experiences, and marketing strategies. Her students’ […]

4 Ways Faculty Can Help Take Pressure Off Students

Healthy Minds principal investigator Sarah K. Lipson, a Boston University School of Public Health associate professor of health law, policy, and management,  discusses ways she instills positive wellbeing in her own classes. She offers tips for how her fellow faculty, and teachers everywhere, can do the same. Looking for more ideas to support student wellbeing in […]

Goodwill Not Landfill Featured on WCVB

“Mass. university continues to clean up its act for “Allston Christmas” ” Read about our collaborative efforts to reduce waste on campus, include hundreds of pounds of food donated to the BU Food Pantry!

How Can SPH Support Wellbeing

In this article, read about how students in SPH’s Mental Health and Public Health: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Perspective (SB780) created ideas for supporting student wellbeing.