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Giving Day

BU Giving Day Returns Wednesday

April 7, 2021

Photo of Elise Morgan, a College of Engineering professor of mechanical engineering, in a red blouse sitting on a chair in a lab with a plastic model in her hands.

University News

Elise Morgan Named First Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design & Innovation

March 2, 2021

Photo of a small orchestra with student musicians rehearsing. In the bottom left corner, William Peltz-Smalley (CFA'22), who has brown, ear-length hair, is seen in focus with his bow balanced on his violin’s strings. In the background, other students with string instruments are blurred.

Giving

$1M Gift to BU Tanglewood Institute Will Boost Continuum of Music Education

March 1, 2021

A view from the top of the staircase at the new Howard Thurman Center. Couches and chairs are visible in a sitting area in the background, and the word "listen" appears written on a wall.

#GivingTuesday

BU’s Seventh Annual #GivingTuesday Is Today

December 1, 2020

Otis Rolley III, Senior Vice President, U.S. Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation, and Ibram X. Kendi, Director and Founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, in a discussion outdoors at Boston University. Photo courtesy of The Rockefeller Foundation

Center for Antiracist Research

Rockefeller Foundation Awards $1.5 Million Grant to BU Center for Antiracist Research

October 1, 2020

A crowd of people marching at a Black Lives Matter protest. A man holds a sign that says "Antiracism starts with education" at the front of the crowd.

Center for Antiracist Research

Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to BU Center for Antiracist Research

August 20, 2020

Steve Hall, VP in alumni relations who helped spearhead the hugely successful BU fund raising campaign, is retiring. Here he sits on one of the railings outside of the Dahod Family Alumni Center at the Castle on July 31, 2020. He wars a blue suits, and ornate windows are seen on the building behind hime with the sign "Dahod Family Alumni Center"

University News

VP for Alumni Relations Steve Hall Will Retire at Year’s End

August 3, 2020

The sunset reflects off the Vertex Pharmaceuticals headquarters building, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017 in Boston's Seaport. A sign on the building reads 'Vertex' in purple. The top dome of a building is seen in the bottom left foreground.

Center for Antiracist Research

Vertex Gives $1.5 Million to New BU Center for Antiracist Research

June 25, 2020

National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Davey Lab members (above): Callie Donahue, (MED’26) (from left) postdoctoral associate Hiroyuki Mori, Image of BU microbiologist Robert Davey (center), a MED professor, and senior research scientist Manu Anantpadma (right), with two students. The group stands in the NEIDL lab with full protective gear on.

Giving

BU Joins Today’s Global Giving Tuesday Now Event

May 5, 2020

Students gather at the sustainability@bu tent during the sustainability festival

Giving

BU Celebrates Community on #GivingTuesday

December 2, 2019

Campaign for BU

BU’s Comprehensive Campaign Final Tally: $1.85 Billion

September 20, 2019

ice figure skates at Agganis

Campaign for BU

The Year’s Biggest Party Will Close BU’s Comprehensive Campaign

September 16, 2019

Office portrait of Karen Engelbourg, Senior Vice President for Development & Alumni Relations at Boston University

Promotions

Karen Engelbourg Named Senior Vice President for Development & Alumni Relations

June 26, 2019

Senior Breakfast 2018

Commencement

Civil Rights Icon John Lewis Will Speak at 145th BU Commencement

May 3, 2018

senior breakfast

Class Gift

Class of 2018 to Be Celebrated at Today’s Senior Class Breakfast

May 3, 2018

Lawn On D

Class Gift

What’s on Tap for Senior Week 2018

April 30, 2018

Bonnie Hammer, chair of NBCUniversal

University News

Commencement Speaker: “The Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment”

May 4, 2017

Commencement

Senior Breakfast Launches Commencement Season

May 4, 2017

Senior Breakfast

Commencement

Who Will Be the 2016 Commencement Speaker?

May 2, 2016

Boston University Senior Breakfast 2015

Metcalf

Meredith Vieira Chosen as 2015 Commencement Speaker

May 1, 2015

Meredith Vieira Chosen as 2015 Commencement Speaker