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Child Health & Development

The Toll on Children’s Health during COVID-19

July 28, 2021

Photo of Simone Biles, a Team USA gymnast, with her arms raised at her sides, and her legs kicking out, as she jumps above the balance beam before empty stands at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre during the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 25, 2021.

Sport Psychology

How Safety Protocols Could Impact Athletes at the Summer Olympic Games

July 26, 2021

Photo of Andree Entezari, in his Somerville home kitchen, holding various fruits and wearing a white and red-striped BU apron, and smiling. Behind him, a dehydrator and other fruit-leather making tools are seen.

Cooking

He’s Gotta Fight! For Your Right! To Dehyyydrate!

July 26, 2021

Photo of a seventy six year old woman Kaironesa Sheik Suleman Allie receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from a health staff member, at a vaccination centre, in Karl Bremer Hospital, in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The staffer wears a blue paper facemask and reaches over her to give the vaccination.

Pandemic Politics

Why Global COVID Vaccinations Are Dangerously Lagging: Six Things To Know

July 23, 2021

Photo of CFA SVA Director Dana Clancy in a red button down looking towards the camera as she holds a painted page of the NYTimes in a gallery of her work.

Visual Arts

Two Ways of Exploring Visual Narrative

July 21, 2021

Photo of Anne Herrera (Wheelock’19), triage specialist at Healthway, wearing a floral face mask and blue floral blouse, receiving the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Student Health Services Director of Nursing Anne Patey, MSN, at the vaccine clinic January 15 at FitRec. Patey wears gloves, a face mask and face shield.

Faculty & Staff

Staff and Faculty React to BU COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

July 19, 2021

Photo, from behind, of a nurse with blue glasses, wearing a face mask and purple gloves, giving a BU staff or faculty a COVID-19 vaccine, at the vaccine clinic at FitRec January 2020.

University News

BU to Require Faculty, Staff to Get Vaccinated for Fall Semester

July 19, 2021

Photo taken at a COVID-19 test collection site. Specialist Jessica Sandberg guides a visitor through the test collection process at the Rajen Kilachand Center August 25, 2020. Sandberg wears a mask and lanyard and stands behind a plastic divider.

University News

Faculty, Staff Will Transition to Unobserved COVID-19 Testing

July 12, 2021

A male staff member at a COVID-19 Test Collection Kiosk prompts a woman to leave her testing swab vial in a tray on the kiosk table.

Back2BU

Video: How to Use BU’s COVID-19 Staffed Collection Kiosks

July 12, 2021

Student Health

What You Need to Know About Updating Your Vaccination Status for Fall

July 9, 2021

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Recent Grads

How’s the Hospitality Industry Doing? We Asked Three 2021 School of Hospitality Administration Grads

July 6, 2021

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Staff

Staff Excited about Remote Work Policy, although Some Want More

June 23, 2021

BU scientists Colleen Bove (from left), Hanny Rivera, Sarah Davies, and Wally Fulweiler join other collaborators in a new PLOS Biology piece arguing that career advancement in science needs to reward an expanded set of criteria—beyond citations and publishing record—including mentorship, science communication, and multicultural experience.

Culture of Science

Sexism and Racism in Science: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Exposed Everything

June 15, 2021

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CORONAVIRUS VACCINES

Study Reveals Recipe for Even More Powerful COVID-19 Vaccines

June 11, 2021

Photo of Isaac Rajagopal (BUA’23) (from left), Chris Kolovos, BU Academy head of school, and Jasper Milstein (BUA’24), strolling down Comm Ave on a fall day. A few people walking are seen walking in the distance. Trees line the Ave and have green and yellow leaves.

University News

BU Academy Sees Admissions Boom

June 10, 2021

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POV

How Getting COVID-19 Made Me a Better Public Health Researcher

June 1, 2021

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Health & Wellness

Massachusetts Ranked No. 1 Healthiest State on National Community Well-Being Index

May 25, 2021

Portrait of Dr. Nahid Bhadelia leaning against a building in front of a window showing a reflection of the Boston skyline.

Infectious Diseases

Nahid Bhadelia to Head New BU Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research

May 18, 2021

Commencement 2021

Video: Sights & Sounds from BU’s Historic 148th Commencement

May 17, 2021

Ayanna Pressley speaks at BU Commencement

Commencement

BU Commencement 2021: Unlike Any in History

May 16, 2021

BU Commencement 2021: Unlike Any in History