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University News

BU Climbs in Some U.S. News & World Report National College Rankings

September 12, 2022

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Infectious Diseases

BU Researchers: We Have the Potential to Prevent Endemic Monkeypox

August 23, 2022

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Climate Change

Amid Climate Change, BU Researchers Study Chelsea’s “Heat Island”

July 8, 2022

A student peers through a telescope at the Boston University Coit Observatory.

Things-to-do

Spend a Free Night Stargazing at the Coit Observatory

July 4, 2022

An illustration by Sky & Telescope that depicts where certain planets will be in the sky on June 24th

Science & Technology

Want to See Five Planets with Your Naked Eye This Week?

June 21, 2022

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Career

What Are the Fastest Growing Jobs? And How Can BU Prepare You?

June 10, 2022

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WWII History

One BU Professor Helps Another Bury a War-Hero Relative, 75 Years Later

June 3, 2022

MET professor, Kyung-schick Choi poses for a photo on May 3, 2022. He created the school's Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity programs. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Cybersecurity

This MET Cyber Sleuth Helped Find the Man Who Stole His Identity

May 24, 2022

Photo of Tess Ravick (ENG’22), back, and Trevor Melsheimer (ENG’22), front work on their senior design project April 29. The device harvests water from the air. Ravick has light brown skin, wears a t-shirt, a white face mask, and their hair in a bun. Melsheimer, who has light skin and a beard and wears a gray sweater, adjusts a level of the black device on the table in front of them.

Watch Now

Water, Water, Everywhere—They Hope

May 4, 2022

Professor Sean Andersson, left, listens to Franco Julia Wise (ENG’22), at right, as he explains the workings of his team’s Soft Robot with Integrated Soft Optical Sensing for Minimally Invasive Surgery following the May 4 press conference at Phototonics announcing ENG getting $4.4 million from Massachusetts High Technology Council to build a new robotics lab, BU RASTIC, to complement ENG's master's program in robotics and autonomous systems. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

University News

BU to Open New Robotics Lab to Foster More Student Innovators

May 4, 2022

A candlelit vigil in front of the whitehouse for nurses who have died of COVID-19

Health & Medicine

POV: The Lessons of One Million Lives Lost to COVID in the US

April 27, 2022

Photo of Tova Levin (CAS’18), a white woman with long light brown hair who wears a black NASA sweatshirt points at plants in mason jars on the table below her and smiles during the 2017 Earth Day Festival in the GSU Plaza. Other students looking at plants can be seen around her.

Earth Week

BU Celebrates the 52nd Observance of Earth Day

April 21, 2022

Listen Now

Why Do So Many Autistic Girls Go Undiagnosed?

April 12, 2022

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Politics

We’re Paying More at the Pump. How Long Will That, and High Inflation, Last?

March 21, 2022

The CleanTech Club executive board members: Anastasiia Sviridenko (Questrom’21 CAS’21) (from left), Natali Shilotri (Questrom’22), Amelia Murray-Cooper (CAS’22), Lekhya Sathi (Sargent’23), Ella Ciccone (ENG’24), and Charles McGinn (ENG’23). Photo courtesy of McGinn

Student Clubs

CleanTech Club Unites Students through Technology, Sustainability

March 21, 2022

Public Health

POV: What “Strong Black Woman” Means to Me

February 24, 2022

Teenage boy uses a laptop while doing his school work or homework, concept of online education

Voices & Opinion

POV: The SAT Is Going Digital, but Is That Really the Change We Need to See?

February 14, 2022

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Social Sciences

Automation is Driving Inequality

December 7, 2021

photo of CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing that Facebook is changing its corporate name to Meta. Smiling and wearing a grey shirt, he looks to the left and laughs. He sits in front of a rose-colored background with white icons of a shopping cart and female person behind him.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Facebook’s Change to Meta Blurs Lines Even Further

November 29, 2021

Photo of Steven Lue, a young boy with dark hair, black glasses, a red t-shirt. He stands in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

Diversity in STEM

Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers

November 17, 2021

Building the Pipeline to Get Black, Hispanic Youth into STEM Careers