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Classes

Breaking Bad character Walter White sits in a recliner with his family wife Skylar and son Walt Jr. in the background.

Arts & Culture

Breaking Bad Director Gives CAS Class the Inside Dope

November 30, 2018

Film & TV

COM Students Cover the 2018 Midterms

November 6, 2018

Qianhui (Jessica) Rong (CGS’22), left, works with her Hub cocurricular supervisor, Rouwenna Altemose. Photo courtesy BU Hub (two students sitting in a student lounge)

Classes

The BU Hub: FAQs Answered

November 5, 2018

Bruce Schulman and Chris Daly teach a class on media and politics.

History

Trump and the Press: We’ve Been Here Before

October 31, 2018

textbooks

Academics

Textbooks: Getting the Best Bang for Your Buck

August 29, 2018

Frankie Vanaria (GRS’20), teaches a popular online introductory film class Super Heroes in Film, focused on films from Marvel Studios. Photo by Cydney Scott

Classes

A Scholarly Take on Superheroes

August 3, 2018

Advisors judge the towers.

Academics

How Do Questrom Students Learn Team Creativity in an Engineering Facility?

July 18, 2018

Students in Professor Michael Siegel's Public Health Advocacy class participate in a mock hearing regarding a current public health issue.

Drugs

In Fighting Opioids, Just the Facts Isn’t Enough

June 4, 2018

Better eating through chemistry: Scott Schaus explains the chemical combinations behind food’s taste in a class about this science’s everyday applications.

University News

Lemonade without Lemons, and Other Marvels of Chemistry

May 11, 2018

Global Health class

Classes

Plumbing the Public Health Lessons of the AIDS Crisis

May 7, 2018

Déanna Clarke-Campbell (CAS’21) performs

Classes

Hamilton Music Gets an Infusion of New Voices

April 30, 2018

Shanghai

Education

BU Hub, First General Education Program, Debuts This Fall

March 13, 2018

Academics

Checking Your (White) Privilege at the Door

February 27, 2018

Academics

MBAs at the MFA

January 25, 2018

A cartoon depicting two females, one in a burka an one in a bikini, judging each other for the amount of skin that is covered or uncovered.

Gender Studies

Sexism in the Harvey Weinstein Era

November 27, 2017

STH’s Shelly Rambo offers a theological perspective on trauma, while he colleagues’ tackle its clinical and literary aspects.

Literature

How Many Profs Does It Take to Teach Trauma?

November 15, 2017

A magnetized pouch that Boston University lecturer Joelle Renstrom uses to lock up student cell phones during class

Science & Technology

Surviving Class minus Your Cell Phone

November 14, 2017

Students from CAS conducting geology experiments on the BU Beach in May 1981

University News

BU, Then and Now

October 5, 2017

Former NAACP president Cornell William Brooks

Classes

Former NAACP Head Examines Ethics, Law, and Justice Movements

September 22, 2017

A student wears a pink pig pinhole camera made for an introductory photography class at Boston University

Charles River Campus

While You Were Gone

August 16, 2017

While You Were Gone