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Commencement 2025

Class of 2025 Celebrated at Friday’s Senior Breakfast

May 1, 2025

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In the City

Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Jamaica Plain

May 1, 2025

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Urban Health

Why Is Everybody Talking About “Third Places” Right Now?

April 30, 2025

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Athletics Awards

2025 Scarlet & White Ceremony Honors Top Student Athletes and Coaches

April 30, 2025

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Business & Law

Law School Applications Surge amid Economic, Political Uncertainty

April 30, 2025

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In the City

The Weekender: May 1 to 4

April 30, 2025

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Technology

YouTube Turns 20—How Have Its 20 Billion Videos Changed Us?

April 29, 2025

“I had the good luck to be raised among expert joke-tellers, complainers, arguers, schmoozers, boasters, and liars,” Pinsky says in his new memoir, Jersey Breaks. Photo by Gabriela Hasbun. Pinsky stands looking out over an ocean beach on a cloudy day

University News

Robert Pinsky, America’s Ambassador for Poetry, Retiring from Teaching After 36 Years at BU, More Than 1,000 Students

April 29, 2025

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WATCH NOW

See Life at BU Through a Student’s Camera Lens

April 28, 2025

Classes

From Classroom to Kitchen: An Unconventional Approach to Finals

April 28, 2025

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Video: BU Dance Community: What Dancing Means to Us

April 28, 2025

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Life Sciences

For 50 Years, BU’s Lawford Anderson Has Been Helping Students Unlock the Secrets of Earth’s Rocky Materials

April 25, 2025

Business & Law

How Are Government Audits Supposed to Work?

April 25, 2025

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Accolades

Kahn Award in Hand, CFA School of Music Grad Returns to Her Hometown

April 25, 2025

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Athletics

BU Women’s Tennis No. 2 Seed Entering Patriot League Tournament

April 24, 2025

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Watch Now

Video: Zoom, Zoom—BU Auto Club Surges in Popularity

April 24, 2025

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Things-To-Do

The Weekender: April 24 to 27

April 23, 2025

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Student Clubs

Afraid of Public Speaking? This Club Can Help

April 23, 2025

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Voices & Opinion

POV: There Are Ways to Make Life Easier for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Caregivers

April 23, 2025

Alumni

The Rise of a Powerhouse BU Department: Economics

April 22, 2025

The Rise of a Powerhouse BU Department: Economics