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Photo: A runner stretching with BU's mascot, Rhett, before the 2023 5K Fun Run through the Charles River Esplanade during last year’s Alumni Weekend.

Alumni Weekend

Celebrate Alumni Weekend 2024 with These Six Community Events

September 26, 2024

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Awards

New BU Postdoctoral Awards Celebrate Excellence in Mentorship and Research

September 24, 2024

Photo: This year’s class of Boston Public Schools students earning Thomas M. Menino Scholarships and Community Service Award winners at a reception in the lobby of the Questrom School of Business

Academics

Talent, and Scholarships, Power Boston Public School Students to BU

September 4, 2024

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Innovation Awards

2024 Ignition Awards Aim to Bring BU Science and Tech to Market

August 22, 2024

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Awards

BU Team Wins Major National Science Foundation Grant to Help PhD Students Attack Climate Change

August 22, 2024

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Boston History

What the History of Boston’s Harbor Can Teach Us about Its Uncertain Future

July 29, 2024

Photo: Mark Grinstaff, a white man with glasses and distinguished professor of translational research—as well as a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, materials science and engineering, and medicine—has been named a 2021 AAAS Honorary Fellow.

Awards

ENG’s Mark Grinstaff One of Six Researchers to Receive NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Awards

July 25, 2024

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NSF CAREER Awards

Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work

June 27, 2024

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Awards

Proposal to Push Space Junk to “Graveyard Orbit” Earns BU Duo First Prize in National Contest

June 3, 2024

Awards

BU Researcher Named a 2024 Hertz Fellow; Award Honors “Innovators with the Greatest Potential”

May 28, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence

Is AI Biased against Some Groups and Spreading Misinformation and Extreme Views?

May 23, 2024

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Commencement 2024

Quotes, Comments, and Cheers from BU’s 151st Commencement

May 19, 2024

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Commencement 2024

Introducing the Winners of the 2024 Metcalf Awards, BU’s Top Teaching Honors

May 15, 2024

Arts & Culture

Kahn Award Will Carry Theater Arts Major Madeline Riddick-Seals Back to Alabama

May 10, 2024

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Awards

BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams

May 7, 2024

Composite Image: The 2024 recipients of the John S. Perkins Award for Distinguished Service are Walter von Bosau, media resources coordinator, Krasker Film/Video Services, Mugar Memorial Library (from left), Daniel Ivey, program administrator, CAS Writing Program, and Richard Vezina (SPH’90), associate director of the Slone Epidemiology Center. von Bosau photo by Jackie Ricciardi, Center photo provided by Dan Ivery, Vezina photo by Cydney Scott

University News

Meet the 2024 John S. Perkins Award Winners

May 6, 2024

Bobak Nazer (left), an ENG associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, helped to overhaul a complex course that all engineering students are required to take. Fallou Ngom, a CAS professor of anthropology, brings experience as a student to his approach to teaching. Both will be honored at a private dinner on Monday, May 6, for their outstanding teaching accomplishments. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Two BU Faculty Honored with Outstanding Teaching Awards

May 3, 2024

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COVID-19

COVID-19 Photo Contest Winners Capture Moments of Joy, Sorrow, Meaning in Crisis

May 1, 2024

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Innovation

Student Entrepreneurs Competed for a Chance at $72,000 in Prizes at Innovate@BU’s New Venture Night

April 30, 2024

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Film & TV

Coming-of-Age Story of Immigrant Child Wins Big at Redstone Film Festival

April 27, 2024

Coming-of-Age Story of Immigrant Child Wins Big at Redstone Film Festival