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High-Speed Vehicles

Tiny Water Droplets Can Ground Billion-Dollar Supersonic Vehicles. BU Engineers Are Working to Change That.

September 28, 2026

Photo: Scanning electron microscopic images of presolar silicon carbide grains extracted from the Murchison meteorite, which landed in Australia in 1969. Images courtesy of Nan Liu

Astrophysics

Tiny Flecks of Ancient Stardust Offer Clues to Solar System Origins

August 10, 2026

Photo: Protesters Demand End to COVID-19 Shutdown in Orlando, US - 17 in Apr 2020

Radicalization

How Do Social Movements Emerge—and Why Do Some Radicalize?

June 9, 2026

Undergraduate Research

BU Undergrads Making a Difference Through Research

November 25, 2025

Photo: A researcher in a white lab coat pipes samples into dishes

Opioids

Testing a New Approach to Solving the Opioid Epidemic

September 30, 2025

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Undergraduate Research

Bee Research at the Arnold Arboretum Aims to Protect Native Pollinators

August 5, 2025

Marine Biology

Protecting Maine’s Coastal Heritage—and Her Own

June 10, 2025

Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow holding up a box in a church

Religion and Ukraine

BU Student Researched How Russian Religion Fuels War in Ukraine

December 5, 2024

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Giving

Giving Tuesday: an Opportunity to Help Build a Better World

December 2, 2024

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Academics

Undergraduate Research Study Project Explores Do-It-Yourself Extremism

March 26, 2024

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Academics

Many BU Students Study with ChatGPT. A Few Admit Cheating with It

March 18, 2024

Carrie Welter (CAS’23) as Rousseau (from left), Nic Rowe (CAS’23) as Shakespeare, and Bruce Hallgren (CAS’22) as Dido rehearse for a play written by Alexandra Mascarello (CAS’23) that defends humanities studies. Photos by Mohan Ge (COM’22)

Theatre

Our STEM Era Needs the Humanities, Undergrad’s Play Argues

April 20, 2022

Photo of a group of students gathered in the MFA in 2018. Behind the students are two large works of art in ornate frames. A semi -circle of students listen as one student presents their work of choice.

Arts & Culture

Visiting Ancient Worlds Virtually through Student-Made Videos

November 20, 2020

Photo of Sabrina Scotti (CFA’20) in a light blue dress holding Katamari Damacy REROLL, one of the children’s video games she studied as part of her an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program–funded research into whether games use diverse music styles to further music education. She smiles and bushes are seen in the background.

Music

Do Children’s Media Serve Up a Properly Diverse Musical Diet?

August 27, 2020

Lev Paasche-Orlow (CAS’22) poses for a photo outside of planned parenthood

UROP

Undergrad’s UROP Project: Local Abortion Protesters Rely on Restraint, and Unexpected Help

December 16, 2019

Kinh Vu drums on a plastic bucket on Comm Ave

Music

Kinh Vu’s Journey from Vietnam Orphan to BU Music Professor

October 23, 2019

Chelsea Bray poses for a portrait with cotton milling machines in the historical Boott Cotton Mill in Lowell, MA said to be an inspiration for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

History

A Christmas Carol: Made in Massachusetts?

December 18, 2018

Student Madeline Bucci and College of Fine Arts professor Karin Hendricks sit back-to-back in front of a blackboard with music notes written in chalk.

Education

Suzuki Method: Respect and Repetition the Best Teachers

December 3, 2018

SheHacks Boston

Computers

SheHacks Boston Student Organizers Are #makingthenewnormal

January 26, 2018

John Celenza, new UROP director. Photo by Cydney Scott

UROP

John Celenza Named New UROP Head

October 12, 2017

John Celenza Named New UROP Head