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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

Voices & Opinion

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

an image of a gas pump in california showing prices as high as 5.99/gallon for regular gasoline

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

Photo of a white, automated robotic arm in the middle of a distribution warehouse, with blue racks piled high with cardboard boxes.

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

Photo of Lecturer Malwina “Maja” Carrion in her course Neglected Tropical Diseases at Sargent Nov 9. She wears a patterned, multi-color, bluish mask, and a gray long sleeve, and gestures with her right hand at the podium at the front of the classroom. She is a young light-skinned woman with long hair.

Infectious Diseases

Want to Learn about Neglected Tropical Diseases? Sign Up for This Sargent Course

November 13, 2021

Photo of a class walking through Arnold Arboretum. They are framed by a vine of leaves, it looks like early fall.

Classes

New Interdisciplinary Class Asks: “What Do Plants Know?”

November 10, 2021

A visitor views a Green Zone exhibit during the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K., on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. He stands in a dark room facing a bright, colorful display showing the differences in climate on Earth, Mars, and Jupiter.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Letter from Glasgow

November 4, 2021

Photo of Anne Everest Wojtkowski (1935-2014), the first woman to graduate from the Boston University College of Industrial Technology. The photo is black and white and pictures Wojtkowski writing at a desk with a lamp. She has short dark hair.

Arts & STEM

Honoring BU’s Women in STEM through Artwork

November 2, 2021

Photo of Deborah Carr, a white woman with wavy blonde hair, smiling and posing for a photo next to a window.

Social Sciences

New BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Will Promote Collaborative Research and Teaching

October 13, 2021

Photo of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi at What the Science Tells Us: Racial Health and Economic Inequities during the Pandemic Symposium presented by The BU Center for Antiracist Research in the Metcalf Hall October 1. He wears a blue suit and a patterned blue button down. He stands at the podium on stage and gestures with his hand as he speaks earnestly.

Race, Health & Economics

Message from Antiracism Symposium: “Move from Awareness to Action”

October 3, 2021

A 13 year-old boy gets a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the First Baptist Church of Pasadena in New York.

COVID Vaccine

Kids 5 to 11 Show Strong Immune Response to Pfizer COVID Vaccine

September 20, 2021

Professor Andy Andres dangles a baseball stuck to his finger with Spider Tack adhesive, a commonly used sticky substance in Major League Baseball

Baseball Physics

The Science behind MLB’s Sticky Stuff Scandal [Video]

September 17, 2021

Listen Now

With Space Tourism a Reality, Will Civilians Travel to Space? And When?

September 16, 2021

With Space Tourism a Reality, Will Civilians Travel to Space? And When?

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