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Student Life

Terriers in Charge: Tabitha Fortner (CAS’24)

February 1, 2023

Photo: Three Black women sit on an orange-brown staircase. From left, the women has blue-green shoulder-length locs. She is wearing an all black outfit. In the middle, a women with long, black box braids wears an all black outfit. And finally, on the right, a women with a blonde ombre locs that are tied up in a high pony. She wears an all black outfit with a heather gray, oversized sweater vest overtop and glasses that match the orange-brown of the stairs.

Student Life

Bringing Visibility to the Black Experience at BU

February 1, 2023

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Things-to-do

The Weekender: January 26 to 29

January 25, 2023

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New Podcast

Terriers, What Is Your Favorite BU Class?

January 20, 2023

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Things-to-do

The Week Ahead: January 23 to 29

January 20, 2023

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Valentine's Day

Love Yourself First This Valentine’s Day with Words of Encouragement

January 20, 2023

Photo: Flatlay of various picture frames and mementos showing various Lunar New Year memories. Pictures show a traditional memorial, a group of friends goofing off, a white door with a red symbol on it, a phone showing a photo of fireworks, a tabled filled with dishes of Asian food, and red envelopes with cartoon artwork on the front.

Watch Now

Video: What Is Your Favorite Lunar New Year Memory?

January 19, 2023

Aerial photo of BU and non-BU students celebrating Holi on Cummington Mall Rd on March 20 in-person for the first time in three years. Most young people in the crowd wear white or light colored shirts, and a cloud of orange dust rises in the air. The people are covered with an array of bright colors and look joyful as they talk with their friends.

Year In Review

2022: Pictures That Defined the Year

January 13, 2023

Photo: Associate director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center Stephanie McMains (GRS’06), seated, with Arielle Moore (GMS’26) in the Cognitive Neuroimaging Center in CILSE Dec 1. A white woman sits in a chair gesticulating as she sits in front of a table in front of window that shows the fMRI room. A black woman wearing a blue face mask stands behind her listening attentively.

Life Sciences

Neurobiology Class Gets a Peek Inside a Volunteer’s Brain

December 22, 2022

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Social Media

22 Memes That Got Us Through 2022

December 19, 2022

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Sustainability

5 Ways to Make the Holiday Season More Sustainable

December 16, 2022

Sam Weinberger (CFA’21) paints the BU rock with holiday flair as the student a cappella group the Allegrettos watches and sings on. A group of students wearing holiday hats and scarves sing as a young man bends down to spray paint a giant rock with a snowman holiday scene.

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A Special Holiday Video Message from All of Us at BU Today

December 16, 2022

Photo: A young dark-skinned Black man models blue scrubs and a white lab coat in front of a large rose bush. The name "VERDE" is shown to the left of him in bold, white letters.

Learning Public Relations

COM’s PRLab Takes On Medical Apparel Brand VERDE as a Client

December 16, 2022

Students

25 Tuesdays, 25 Terriers, 25 Inspiring Pieces of Advice

December 16, 2022

Photo: exterior of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. An old building with elaborate Greek style arches is shown.

Things-to-do

The Weekender: December 16 to 18

December 15, 2022

Collage: (From left to right, top down) Photo: Bruce Willis at a speaking engagement wearing a blue collared shirt with a white undershirt, Photo of BU Medical student, Molly Jia Yong Zhao gives a flu shot to a patient during a clinic on September 29, 2020, vector illustration of a brain pixelating and dissolving from left to right, and Photo of Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Science, Hagere Yilma, posing for a photo. A Black woman with shoulder-length black hair styled in a twist-out hairstyle wearing a black, tunic-style blouse stands in front of a brick wall and smiles to the camera.

2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: BU’s Most-Read Science and Research Stories

December 13, 2022

n this Dec. 1988 file photo, a police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland of Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York. The Dec. 21, 1988 explosion would quickly transform the Scottish town into a byword for international terror. Now it is being remembered again because of the 2011 conflict in Libya, the country that accepted responsibility for blowing up Pan Am Flight 103. (AP Photo)

Parents

Mother of Terrier Killed in 1988 Lockerbie Plane Bombing Says Arrest “Only Brings Sadness”

December 13, 2022

Photo: Melisa Osborne, a woman wearing a blue face mask and floral burgundy dress, leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. She stands in front of a large lecture class room facing the class as she lectures.

Life Sciences

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare

December 12, 2022

Photo: A young Asian woman wearing glasses and a white puffer jacket leans to the right to look at the screen of a young white man's laptop which is sitting in his lap. He looks over to his right at the woman and smiles and gestures knowingly. They both sit in front of a pinkish wall.

Academics

Biannual Cross-College Challenge Expo, Featuring Projects That Address Real-World Problems, on Tuesday

December 12, 2022

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts