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Science & Technology

American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2018 Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives from New York's 14th Congressional District, speaks to a crowd at Boston University on October 2, 2018.

Alumni

Rising Democratic Star Ocasio-Cortez Urges Students to Become Activists

October 2, 2018

digital rendering of BU's new data sciences center showing a view of the building from the Kilachand Center

Center for Computing & Data Sciences

BU Proposes to Build Data Sciences Center, Aiming to Become Leader in Booming Field

October 1, 2018

Architectural rendering showing the. collaboration terraces, built to encourage scientific interaction and collaboration, inside the new Boston University Data Sciences Center.

University News

A Big Building for Big Ideas

October 1, 2018

A diver reels in a line near a bleached colony of Boulder Star Coral at East Flower Garden Bank.

Marine Biology

Inside the Search for a Coral Killer

October 1, 2018

A woodblock painting of John Calvin

Health & Medicine

Does God Ordain Domestic Violence?

October 1, 2018

Sahar Sharifzadeh, assistant professor of engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Accolades

BU Prof Named One of Scientific American’s 11 Rising Stars of Science

September 28, 2018

A child watches as students get on a yellow school bus

Psychology

BU Spearheads Largest-Ever Study of Child Anxiety

September 25, 2018

Firefighters battle flames leaping from a home after a series of gas explosions in Lawrence, Mass.

Things-to-do

Recent Massachusetts Explosions Can Happen in Any Gas System

September 25, 2018

Emily Ryan and a graduate students look intently at a computer screen

Mechanical Engineering

Searching for a Better Battery

September 24, 2018

Screenshots of the new Tinder U app

Life Sciences

Tinder Campus-Specific Dating Service Further Targets College Students

September 24, 2018

wind farm

University News

University Announces Massive Wind Power Purchase

September 18, 2018

The cracked sidewalk outside of the entrance to the playground behind the Trotter School in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston

Politics

US Mayors: Blacks, Trans, Muslim, and Immigrants Face Discrimination

September 17, 2018

city of boston skyline

University News

Learning How Cities Work

September 14, 2018

The Eloy Detention Center in Arizona

Law

BU Works to Reunite Immigrant Families

September 11, 2018

Justin Fiaschetti (ENG’21)

Science & Technology

The Woodworker

September 10, 2018

Whitney Manhart (MED'20) (left) a PhD student in Elke Muhlberger’s NEIDL lab, and lab manager Jennifer Pacheco are coauthors of a Cell Reports study about a tool that will help determine whether a new zoonotic virus, LLOV, can cause disease in humans. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Infectious Diseases

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

September 5, 2018

Red Hat Presentation

University News

Open-Source Summer in the Seaport

September 4, 2018

Mayor Martin Walsh speaks with summer interns

University News

I Spent My Summer Working at Boston City Hall

August 31, 2018

Klapperich and colleague in a lab

Research

How Point-of-Care Testing Will Transform Healthcare

August 30, 2018

Stan Sclaroff

Faculty

Stan Sclaroff Named Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences

August 28, 2018

Stan Sclaroff Named Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences