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It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day: Celebrate by Checking Out These Local Eateries
Our list of where to go to indulge in America’s favorite sweet treat
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POV: January 6 Insurrection Has Evolved into a Racist Relapse
“We must out-organize the forces organized against antiracism”
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Boston Landmarks Orchestra Returns to Esplanade with Free Outdoor Concert Series at Hatch Shell
Tonight’s program includes Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and works by influential Black composers
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A History of Racial Discrimination and the Fight for Change
CAS historian Paula Austin is amplifying the voices of Black teenagers from Jim Crow–era Washington, D.C., and highlighting parallels to today’s Black Lives Matter movement
1October 12, 2020
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Artist Sam Weinberger’s Latest Project Pays Tribute to Frontline Workers
CFA alum’s mural at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center honors hospital’s staff
If you’ve walked through Brighton lately, you may have noticed something a little different about Boston University’s newest teaching hospital, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center (SEMC). We’re talking about the 5-foot-tall, 100-foot-long mural now gracing the retaining wall on Washington Street, painted by artist Sam Weinberger (CFA’21). Read More
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He’s Gotta Fight! For Your Right! To Dehyyydrate!
BU employee helps enable local home cooks to sell food they make
Andree Entezari grew up in Indiana, but his family’s roots are in Iran, and his heart belongs to the chewy dried fruit snack known there as lavashak. It’s healthy, it tastes good, and it connects him to his father, who made it for him when he was a boy, and to their culture. Read More
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Self-Taught, Self-Driving Cars? Like Babies Learning to Walk, Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Drive by Mimicking Others
Researchers develop new machine learning algorithm that teaches cars to self-drive by observing other traffic
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POV: One Year after the Beirut Port Explosion, Who’s to Blame?
We need to hold government officials accountable for a tragedy that could have been averted
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Horror Movies Reveal What’s Keeping Society Up at Night
Twenty-First Century Terrors class studies our tumultuous era’s films
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Medical Campus Promotes 13 Faculty to Associate Professor
They have earned national recognition as leaders in their respective fields
July 30, 2021
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Arts & Culture
- Humanities Center Summer Program Teaches the Classics to Local High Schoolers
- National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day: Where to Find the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in Boston
- Boston Landmarks Orchestra Returns to Esplanade with Free Outdoor Concert Series at Hatch Shell
Business & Law
- POV: January 6 Insurrection Has Evolved into a Racist Relapse
- BU Political Scientist Gina Sapiro’s Retirement Blog Reflects on 46 Years of Teaching, Mentoring, More
- Supreme Court Decision Is Bad News for Voting Rights
Campus Life
- Seven Items I Wish I Had As a Freshman in Boston (& Where To Get Them)
- How’s the Hospitality Industry Doing? We Asked Three 2021 School of Hospitality Administration Grads
- Students Warned to Look Out for Rental Scams
Health & Medicine
- POV: Simone Biles Teaches Us Why We Must Support All Athletes Better
- POV: Cheering a More Inclusive Olympic Games
- How to Pick the Right Sunscreen for Your Face
In the City
- National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day: Where to Find the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in Boston
- Boston Landmarks Orchestra Returns to Esplanade with Free Outdoor Concert Series at Hatch Shell
- To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
Science & Technology
- Janet Petro Is First Woman to Lead NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
- Video: How to Use BU’s COVID-19 Staffed Collection Kiosks
- BU Launches Data Science as an Undergraduate Major
Sports
- Terrier Star Hanako Kawasaki Headed to US Women’s Amateur Golf Championship
- POV: Simone Biles Teaches Us Why We Must Support All Athletes Better
- POV: Cheering a More Inclusive Olympic Games
University News
- Two MBTA Green Line Trolleys Crash on Comm Ave; 23 Injured
- Medical Campus Promotes 13 Faculty to Associate Professor
- BU Tanglewood Institute Alum Returns to Direct Orchestra Program
Voices & Opinion
- POV: January 6 Insurrection Has Evolved into a Racist Relapse
- POV: One Year after the Beirut Port Explosion, Who’s to Blame?
- POV: Simone Biles Teaches Us Why We Must Support All Athletes Better