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Mental Health

National BU-Led Study Finds College Student Mental Health Continues to Improve

October 27, 2025

Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel. Thursday, May 11, 2023.

Arms Control

Missile Defense Won’t Save Us from Growing Nuclear Arsenals

July 22, 2024

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Immigration

Do Immigrants and Immigration Help the Economy?

April 4, 2024

Photo: A group of people wearing bright, flamboyant Mardi Gras Indian outfits stand and pose in front of a large stoop. Large pink and purple feathers are showcased on outfits and headdresses.

Music Festival

BU Global Music Festival Comes to Tsai Performance Center on Saturday

September 13, 2023

Photo: Colorful Bollywood dancers hit their dance move has the perform on stage. Their costumes consist of sparkly purple tank tops, with sparkly orange bottoms and a navy-blue lining on the pants. Most dancers have their hair down.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Bollywood Dance Performance

June 7, 2023

Photo: Wooden crosses mark the graves of Izium residents killed by Russian occupiers during exhumation procedures at a mass burial site in Izium that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Russian troops, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. Numerous mounds of dirt are marked by crosses in a wooded area. A tape is pulled across the scene, with Ukrainian writing on it.

Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

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Research in Photos

From Lovesick Frogs to Music-Making to Mouse Memories, Photo Contest Shows Stunning Breadth of BU Research

September 27, 2022

Photo of Mexican group Son Rompe Pera posting with their musical instruments. The group is comprised of fiven youngish men of color, all of them with arm tattoos. Two hold instruments that look like xylophones , one holds a small guitar, another a set of handle held drums.

Arts on Campus

Get Ready to Dance at BU’s Annual Global Music Festival

September 13, 2022

Photo of Sophie Lee (Questrom’22), wearing a light blue sweater and smiling, as she holds a teal bowl of Tteokbokki in front of her. Overlaid on the photo at the top left is a top-down view of the bowl of Tteokbokki, which has noodles, a reddish sauce and a soft-boiled egg.

Student Life

[Video] How to Make Tteokbokki

October 29, 2021

Literature

Trent Masiki’s Afroethnic Renewal: Six Afro-Latino Memoirists You Should Know

September 15, 2021

A Boston Police officer in silhouette on the street

Social Justice

Five New Studies to Probe Pandemic’s Impact on Vulnerable Urban Populations

July 17, 2020

Humanities

How the Japanese Imperial Family, the World’s Oldest Royal Line, Transcends Time

July 9, 2019

Mango Blue latin music ensemble led by Alex Alvear performs on stage

In the City

South End Alive with the Sound of Music Tonight

July 14, 2016

North End historian and author Dom Capossela talks about the North End neighborhood to students in Boston University Metropolitan College summer course about history and culture of the North End

University News

MET Class Asks: Is the North End Still Italian?

July 12, 2016

Folk dancing in Copley Square, Boston, MA

Boston

Folk Dancing Comes to Copley Square Tonight

July 21, 2015

ArtBeat Festival Somerville

Fine Arts

Davis Square Hosts ArtBeat Festival This Weekend

July 17, 2015

Step About Boston Irish step dancing group at Boston University

Students

Step About Boston

March 16, 2015

Boston

Studying Brahmins, Baked Beans, and Baseball

December 1, 2014

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Immigration

Does Diversity Breed Intolerance?

September 25, 2014

Tess Davis, archaeologist, Duryodhana Cambodian statue, archaeology, stolen antiquities, looted antiquities, ancient temples of Cambodia

Culture

Returning Duryodhana

June 16, 2014

Returning Duryodhana